The Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games also comes with a new proof-of-concept game called Tankster from industry innovator Grant Skinner and his team at gskinner.com . Tankster is built with HTML5 and comes complete with reusable server side...

Recently I found something very interesting while trying to insert a record in a table in my Windows Azure Table Storage. The following record was inserted in the Windows Azure Table without any problem: partitionkey: KSIEIRI6I4ER39GFDGRger4000173KDLWDTTKWKWITO405482950skeiklkKL324444242Ah4u2A1UY41QB4...

When you create a Windows Azure WCF Web Role you will see that WCF tracking is disabled by default. The original web.config looks like as below: <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration> <!-- To collect diagnostic traces, uncomment the section...

Recently I was working on a WCF based Application running in Windows Azure however this WCF service was not able to connect more than 100 concurrent connections. We could consistently observed that when the service hits the limit of exactly 100 connections...

Here is C# sample code to access Windows Azure Services using Windows Azure Management API in C#. I have managed following two functions: - To get deployment details for a specific Windows Azure Application on Windows Azure GetDeploymentDetails...

Recently I was working on my MVC3 ASP.NET Web Role application (Using Windows Azure Tools August 2011 Update based MVC3 template) which is interacting with App Fabric ACSv2 and I hit the following error: Server Error in '/' Application...

Recently I was asked if Windows Azure App Fabric Access Control Service (ACS) works with Windows Azure Traffic Manager or not. The current CTP release of Windows Azure Traffic Manager is not supported with App Fabric Access Control Services. ...

With the release of Windows Azure Traffic Manager, Windows Azure users, can point their domains such www. companydomain.com to their Azure Traffic Manager policy domain name, such as companydomain.ctp.trafficmgr.com . Above setting is equivalent...

This Windows Azure Tomcat Solution is designed in a way that you can update your Tomcat project outside VS2010 project. The VS2010 application will be deployed once however whenever you would need to update, Tomcat, Java Run time or your own Tomcat based...

Time to time, I had to download blob from Windows Azure Storage for my Windows Azure Projects but so many time, when I was no in Azure VM, there was no way to be sure that my blob was downloaded successfully. To solve this problem I decided to simply...

CommVault provides enterprise backup software, disk to disk backup, data protection, deduplication, e-discovery & a host of solutions for large & small businesses. If you are Commvault user, you can configure Windows Azure to use as a back service...

Recently I was working on an App Fabric Application which was connecting to App Fabric Service bus while hosted inside IIS. The application was working fine while connecting with App Fabric Service Bus, when my machine was located in a network where there...

Windows Azure Storage Analytics - Logging & Metrics Windows Azure Storage Analytics feature adds logging and metrics capabilities to Azure storage which gives everyone additional tools to troubleshoot storage related problems and obtain information...

In this section we will learn how to add RDP access credentials to an already deployed LightSwitch application which you have already published. You can visit part 1 and part 2 of my articles on the same topic as below: Windows Azure and Visual...

In this section we will use the application "AzureLightSwitchWebRole" created in first part of this blog (link below) and "Publish" to Windows Azure using LightSwitch Publish Wizard Windows Azure and Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 - Part 1/3 : Creating...

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 offers downloadable starter kits and flexible deployment options that help you create and easily release custom business apps that look professional and polished, with no coding required. Learn more at: http://www.microsoft...

All Windows Azure Role can have any type of internal endpoints. Internal endpoints are limited to 5 per role. Internal endpoints are used for internal role communication, for example, role-to-role communication. So based on it, Web role can support up...

The way RDP works is that one of the roles (when you have multiple roles and instance) will have RemoteForwarder running in all of its instances, and all of the roles will have RemoteAccess running. When you RDP into a specific instance, the role type...