When building Windows Azure application you may have a collection of multiple web & worker role and depend on your application architecture you would need to establish a secure communication between your roles. For example I will use the following...

If you have more than one role in your Windows Azure application, and you decide to update only one role you sure can do that. To do that you will still need to build your full Azure application (included all role) and then only update the specific role...

In Windows Azure SDK 1.5 the packages are no longer encrypted since they are always transferred between the development machine and Windows Azure Portal over https. Up to Windows Azure SDK 1.4 when you generate Service Package (CSPKG) file then...

As of today, Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Relay Service capabilities includes include load balancing feature. With this addition, you can have up to 25 listeners registered to one single service endpoint. Scale and Availability Feature (aka Load...

Windows HPC Server with Burst to Azure is ideal for compute intensive applications that demand 1000s of Cores. The HPC/Azure hybrid solution allows both novice users and skilled developers to quickly deploy their existing windows binary executable, HPC...

With Windows Azure application you can use ServiceConfiguration.cscfg to include any item-value pair and then in your role code you can read these settings directly however if you would want to read configuration entries using System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager...

While creating a new Table in SQL Azure using SQL Azure Management Portal, you might see the following error: While collecting this error details you will see the following crucial information: An error was encountered while applying the changes...

The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone is designed to make it easier for you to build mobile applications that leverage cloud services running in Windows Azure. The toolkit includes Visual Studio project templates for Windows Phone and Windows Azure...

While working on Windows Azure Table Storage, I had to retrieve partition key range so I look around if there is an API to get the list of all partition keys for my whole table, unfortunately I could not find an API to ease my job. I was really looking...

As you may know that both “Startup task” and OnStart() function, are executed before your Role, Run function is called. You might have a question in your mind, if there any advantage of using startup task over executing the installation code...

Recently I was asked if there is a way to clear all of objects in the Windows Azure Caching Service or in otherwise clearing/flushing all objects from Windows Azure AppFabric Cache from a single call or what is the best way or recommended way to clear...

Previously: If you need to change the number or type of endpoints for existing roles, you must delete and redeploy the service. Recently upgrade to Windows Azure will let you apply in-place upgrade to your Windows Azure Application which includes...

Environment: Visual Studio 2010 Professional SP1 & Windows Azure SDK 1.5 While working on an issue, I found an interesting issue with a new hello worlds ASP.NET based web role. When launching this application with or without debugger, the exception...

On 16 th October, Visual Studio team released the first version of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit . This kit includes hands-on labs to help you understand how to take advantage of the variety of enhancements in Visual Studio 11 and...

RoleEnviornment.IsAvailable is used to determine whether the role environment is available or not no matter the role is running in devFabric or cloud. RoleEnviornment.IsAvailable is available with Windows Azure SDK 1.4 and SDK 1.5. RoleEnvironment...

If you have read my previous article about Windows Azure VM Downtime due to Guest and Host OS update…. Windows Azure VM downtime due to Host and Guest OS update and how to manage it in multi-instance Windows Azure Application http:...

I have seen some Azure VM downtime concerns from Windows Azure users who have minimum 2 or more instances to meet to 99.95% SLA. The specific concerns are related with VM downtime when Guest and Host OS update is scheduled. So lets consider following...

BETA release for WASABi (Windows Azure Autoscaling Application Block) is ready for download from NuGet Here : Source Code Link Binary Link A list of October Release and latest changes are available at: http://entlib.codeplex.com/wikipage...

I was asked to find some resources on BizTalk and Windows Azure Integration so after my research, I found the following article by Paolo Salvatori from Microsoft, about integrating BizTalk Server application with Windows Azure Service Bus Queues. The...

Upcoming Features for SQL Azure Q4 2011 Service Release (end of 2011) The maximum database size for individual SQL Azure databases will be expanded 3x from 50 GB to 150 GB. Federation. With SQL Azure Federation, databases can be elastically...

Today Microsoft Announced great plans about Hadoop adoption to deliver enterprise class Apache Hadoop based distributions on both Windows Server and Windows Azure . See Announcement Microsoft will provide simplified download, installation and configuration...

Time to time you might want to know what the total transaction counts are when you perform any storage activity which included Windows Azure storage. For example when you mount a VHD from Windows Azure Storage to you Azure VM or you write total...

So if you always wanted to try System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) plugin for Managing Windows Azure Application, i think this post would give you a good start. You just need to download a VHD which is already pre-configured for everything you need...

There was an incident when Windows Azure Management Portal does not list any hosted services even when I was sure that there are at least one hosted service. The problem look like as below: If you see this problem this is maninly because...

If you have the same code running in ASP.NET (within web role you may not hit the problem) however if you try to do this outside role code or from a standalone app you have much more chances to hit this error. Couple of months back, I have written...