Hi, I have created a web service which is internally consuming SSDS service (https://database.windows.net/soap/v1/). I was able to sucessfully host my web service in cloud also placed client access policy and cross doamin policy in place. But when I am trying to consume this web service in Silverlight hosted on cloud it its throwing exc...
I'm issuing a HttpWebRequest in silverlight and attempting to read (amongst other things) the headers in the response. Unfortunately, while I can get the response object (HttpWebResponse) any attempt to access the Headers collection results in a "not implemented" exception. Any ideas of how to do this? I'm attempting to pull a large reco...
Hi, I am currently designing architecture for my new project. This has ASP.Net MVC web client and WCF web services for third party integration as front-end. Currently this application will be hosted by us on rented rack space in datacenter, but in future we might move it to Microsoft Azure. Do I have to do specific planning for Azure ...
What are the challenges in porting your existing applications to Azure? Here are few points I'm already aware about. 1) No Support for Session Affinity (Azure is Stateless) - I'm aware that Azure load balancing doesn't support Session Affinity - hence if the existing web application should be changed if it has session affinity. 2) I...
Is it possible to have multiple worker processes on Azure or do I need to create a separate thread for each to get that behavior? If Azure currently does not support this, are there plans to add this in the future? ...
I've been running some background processes using the Worker role in Azure to test out Azure to see if it something I can consider for one of my projects. When I click on the Analytics tab, I get a message saying "Coming soon.". Is there any way for me to determine some metrics? I'm mostly interested in trying to calculate a potential ...
Running under local development, I'm trying to make a WebRequest to http://127.0.0.1:8000 under Windows Azure (July CTP). But it throws a "A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network 127.0.0.1:8000" exception. I have 2 web roles running from the same Cloudservice but with different port numbers. How do I solve this? ...
I setup my first Azure Cloude Service as well as Web Role. When I build and then publish application I can only see bin directory with all my dlls. I don't have any folders or aspx files. \ProjectName.CloudService\bin\Debug\ProjectName.CloudService.csx\roles\Web\bin How can I compile other files. ...
I'm getting a strange error while trying to select a row from a table under Windows Azure Table Storage. The exception "An item with the same key has already been added." is being thrown even though I'm not inserting anything. The query that is causing the problem is as follows: var ids = new HashSet<string>() { id }; var fields = new ...
Is it possible to increase the default value length of string values from nvarchar(1000) to something higher? So that I don't need to edit the tables in SQLEXPRESS each time I recreate the tables. ...
The Windows Azure Platform allows an application to be deployed to one or more instances. The fabric controller then balances your application's workload across those instances. Can the number of instances be scaled up/down based on demand or are the number of instances static? If instances can be dynamically started how much control ...
Hi there, I'm currently designing an application which I will ultimately want to move to Windows Azure. In the short term, however, it will be running on a server which I will host myself. The application involves a number of separate web applications - some of these are essentially WCF services which receive data, and some are sites f...
We current operate a datacenter that aggregates a bunch of login data and stores it into a database. We have several "jobs" that run periodically that operate on the data, perform statistics analysis, etc. The current scheduler and job system is pretty basic, and I'd like to kick it in the nuts and send it into overdrive (just go with ...
I'm just taking my first steps with Azure and the first thing I see in the development fabric is a bunch of console style logging windows. So I figure that's going to be handy and decide to figure out how to write stuff there and stumble upon this: Microsoft.ServiceHosting.ServiceRuntime.RoleManager.WriteToLog("Information", "Message);...
For those in the know, what recommendations do you have for storing passwords in Windows Azure configuration file (which is accessed via RoleManager)? It's important that: 1) Developers should be able to connect to all production databases while testing on their own local box, which means using the same configuration file, 2) Being Dev...
I need my application to run in FullTrust mode so I added this line to my web/config file: I also modified the .csdef filr to enableNativeCodeExecution. But when I want to run my application (which runs with no problems as a standard Asp.Net web app) I get the following message : "Role isntances did not start within the time allowed. P...
When you use the Table Services API in Windows Azure what is really doing under the hood? I think I read somewhere that this is not using SQL Server. Is it doing a hash table and then filters are really running like map/reduce actions? I'm really new to this stuff and I'm curious to what it is really doing. ...
I am using DotNetOpenAuth to authenticate an app on Windows Azure. From time to time, the system is slow, and I end up with the following error message Login failed: The maximum time allowed to complete authentication has been exceeded. Please try again. Any suggestion how to increase this timeout? ...
Can anyone point me at a decent repository or dependency injection library for any of the variations of Azure data services? I'm looking for quicker ways to bring applications to market and would like a library that allows (even more) minimal coding to persist and retrieve entities to the cloud. Preferably libraries that provide source...
I'd like to view the logfile from an Azure worker role which uses this: RoleManager.WriteToLog("Information", "Worker Process entry point called.") I'm running in the local development fabric. Where will the above output be sent? EDIT: I just now found this question asked before, but without a satisfatory answer as of yet. ...