I remember I stumbled upon a page once that said Microsoft has released an application that allows you to test your client applications for windows azure locally. The application would act as mock windows azure environment and you could use local end points for connecting to it. Does anyone know which application is it or what is its na...
Are there any big names running on the cloud? Especially on GAE and Amazon? ...
Using MVC 1.0, and Azure July 2009 SDK I have an MVC application that appears to be working in the azure test framework, except for the fact that my appSettings collection is empty when running there. (But if I just run the web project on it's own, it's fine.) Is there something special I need to do to access the web.config from Azure...
Hi! Does anyone have a set of best practices they'd like to share related to Azure WorkerRole error handling? I'd particulalry like any ideas you may have on how to deal with persistent error conditions (i.e. where access to an external resource like a web service is temporarily down for several hours). Thanks..... ...
I need to install a SSL certificate into Visual Studio for use with an Azure site. I'm successfully using a self-signed certificate for local development, but I can't figure out how to get my certificate from Comodo to show up in Visual Studio. I used IIS7 Manger to create the CSR. I then added the certificate in IIS7 Manager and it a...
Hi! I want to build an Azure application that has two worker roles and NO web roles. When the worker roles first start up I want ONLY ONE of the roles to do the following a single time: Download and parse a master file then enqueue multiple "child" tasks based on the contents of the master file Enqueue a single master file download "...
I am currently setting up a development VPC to test some new technology. I have installed VS 2010 Beta 2. I now want to install the Azure development tools. The latest download that I have been able to find is the July CTP. This is suposed to work with Beta 1. I get the following error message: Visual Studio 2008 is currently install...
I'm trying to create a Linq statement that queries both columns that exist on my entity as properties and those that don't but exist as columns in the database for the entity. For example, I have a collection of Book entities. Each Book has an ID and Title property and a matching column in the database. But, lets say the table for Book ...
Its been awhile since I had used Azure and I forgot where to find my account shared key and I cannot find it on the portal. Where should I be looking? ...
Hello All: I am facing an issue regarding Reports display in an Azure web site. I have given full control to the application then also it is giving Following javascript errors: a. 'RSClientController' is undefined b. 'ReportViewerHoverButton' is undefined Please help in fixing this issue. ...
Does anyone know if SQL Azure supports CTE syntax? Specifically; WITH, OVER, ROW_NUMBER(), PARTITION BY ...
I'm working on a website written in ASP.NET that will access a WCF app. and possibly, some parts will be developped using Flex. So, I'm already looking for hosting for my app. I want to know : -what good providers are there out there that can provide me hosting for all the parts of my app ? (WCF, ASP.NET, and Flex(?,don't know flex yet...
We have an ASP.net web application and would like to host on Azure to scale to thousands on concurrent users. Also have a bunch of application and services written in .NET that the web app accesses using TCP/IP or .net remoting which handle long running processes. For example a media transcoder server, a system monitor, image server, sch...
Hi! I've spent the prior week trying to get a secure form of WCF to work on Azure, but all to no avail! My use case is pretty simple. I want to call a WCF endpoint in the cloud and pass messages to be queued for a Worker Role. Beyond that I want to limit access to pre-authrorized users, authenticated via username & password. I've tr...
I’m doing some research into the capabilities of Windows Azure for an European company. One of their concerns is that data will be processed/stored by servers in the USA. (Regarding the patriot act) Microsoft does provide the option to select a geo-location, but I have yet to find them guaranteeing that the data won’t be processed or st...
Has anyone seen details or a White paper on azure secuirty and the positives and negatives compared to your own hosting? ...
I am newbie to Windows Azure application. I have downloaded the Microsoft Visual Studio express edition 2010 BETA and want to develop Window Azure application. My PC is having Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 with IIS 5.0. Will Windows Azure cloud application work on IIS 5.0 or IIS 6.0? ...
There are quite a few blog articles describing what to do in order to get on ASP.NET MVC to run on Windows Azure. The procedure does not look too complicated, but at the same time, those articles all mention that ASP.NET MVC is not officially supported on Windows Azure. On the otherh hand, the articles I have found are quite old already ...
My google-fu is failing me on this one. As a possible solution to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1679404/unit-testing-net-3-5-projects-using-mstest-in-vs2010 (but I've put this in a seperate question because it's kind of unrelated): Is there any information available regarding if/when .NET 4.0 support will be added to Windows Azure...
I am looking at using SQL Azure and wondering if it supports the FILESTREAM data type introduced int SQL Server 2008 or should I look at another solution. ...