Does anyone have any information on how state is managed in Azure when you choose to have multiple instances? It seems like InProc would be worthless and you would have to have another state server instance, or use the datastore to store the users state across servers. Or does it implement sticky sessions, so InProc is all you need...
Hi Guys, I am using (or want to use) Entlib 4.1 for Logging in a small app I am building for the Azure Platform - the problem is that I keep getting security exceptions related to Partial Trust? Does anyone know how to correctly set partial trust for azure ? Or has done so ? Thanks ...
I created a WCF service that uses TagLib# (http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/TagLib_Sharp) which relies on an unmanaged dll (Win32 I think) to do much of the heavy lifting. Is there any chance of hosting this WCF service in Azure? I did find this in the .csdef file: <WebRole name="WebRole" enableNativeCodeExecution="true"> ...
Will there be a way for us to use Azure as nothing but file storage and CDN, then somehow map a virtual directory to the Azure space? ...
I am researching a new ASP.Net project that we would like to host in a Windows Azure Web Role. One of the technical requirements of this project is to make use of the full pre-compilation options (non-updatable, single page assembly) of the ASP.Net Web Site project model - as opposed to the ASP.Net Web Application project model. Is it p...
I'm writing a technical book (plug - all money goes to charity so it's not so evil). Though I'm half done, I'm still constantly trying to figure out what makes a technical book really good. I don't aspire to be in the realms of a K&R or Peter Norvig or Charles Petzold or Larry Wall. But when I pick up Adam Nathan's WPF book or any of J...
I'm trying to come up with some data on how many much computing power the current cloud platforms represent. (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Google App Engine. Others?) Stuff like how many physical/virtual machines, storage space. How many datacentres are the big players setting up/running already. Any metrics would be f...
From Tim Heuer: In Silverlight 3 we’ve introduced the Client HTTP stack as an option as well. You must opt-in to use the client HTTP handling. This gives you the ability to go more than just GET/POST (i.e., more REST-ful verbs), using response status codes/headers, etc. You can opt-in to use the client HTTP stack on all requests, req...
Coming from a Relational world things are obviously very different with the Azure Table storage. The first major thing I've run into is how to properly store Many-to-Many relationships. For example, I may have a system that keeps track of Users and Books that they own. I found one other post here on SO that suggested to have a String Pr...
I am a little confused about two new technologies receiving a lot of buzz currently; Can somebody please explain to me what the difference (or similarities) are between Azure and .NET Services? Are they one and the same thing? Is Azure the Cloud OS that my .NET Services run in? Is .NET Services a component that makes up the greater Azur...
This question has 2 parts. Is there a way to view the data that is stored locally. I understand that local table storage is actually done using SQLExpress behind the scenes. Where is that SQLExpress database located and can I open it using any query tool? Is there a specific account I need to use? Once the application is deployed to...
I'm using the following method to create tables in Windows Azure. This code is executed only once when the application is first initialized TableStorage.CreateTablesFromModel(typeof(customDataServiceContext), account); If I have updates (ex. new columns) that I want to make to the table, how do I go about making those updates without...
Cross-posted at MSDN. I have a list of entity objects I'm trying to insert into a table in the local storage service. Using a data context class derived from the SampleClient TableStorageDataContext class, I create a new context object and add the entities with no issues. When I call context.SaveChanges(), an exception is ultimately t...
I am wondering if it is possible to host videos on the azure platform. Does Azure allow encoding videos using expression encoders before storing them as a blob. I am imaging a process/architecture where video is upload via client, saved to a location on azure and queued up. A process runs to pick it up from queue, encode it and save i...
Is there a way to create a Virtual Directory in Azure web role. I know you can create them programmaticly on a normal instance of IIS 7, but you have to assign a physical path. How is that possible in Azure? ...
A couple of questions around investing about competency building for Windows Azure. How glorious and revolutionary the platform is. How partners can add value to customers by using Azure. Expanding a little further on my question, there are 2 players in enabling a cloud model for an application The hosting services provider (Micro...
First let me say, I'm just starting to get up to speed on the Azure platform. I understand how in the Azure Queue model a web interaction could put something in a queue and a later interaction could process it. But... What is the equivalent of a "Windows Service" in the Azure world? What if I just wanted something in the background to ...
What would be the best method to create thumbnails generated from supplied pdf's using C#? The solution would have to run on Windows Server 2008 and will ultimately be ported to Azure. ...
I need some help with creating a simple WebRole that uses federated authorzation/authentication with LiveId and the Access Control Service. I'm able to get it working with a local test ASP.NET application, but can't seem to find any information on the steps necessary to do this with a Web Role that can be deployed to Azure. The only in...
I've been looking for ways to connect AD to ACS. Does anyone know if this can be done without Geneva Server? The idea would be to have a way to allow organizations use an Azure deployed application and authenticate/authorize them via the Access Control Service and the organizations AD. Are there other ways to do this without Geneva Se...