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...

As you may already know that Windows Azure Storage team found a bug in Windows Azure SDK 1.5 (released September 14th 2011 ) based StorageClient library that impacts the DownloadToStream, DownloadToFile, DownloadText, and DownloadByteArray methods for...

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...

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...

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...

Using Windows Azure SDK 1.5, if you create a worker role with HTTP internal endpoint and you have weak wildcard binding ( http://+:<port_number >) setting you may encounter the following error while running your application in compute emulator....

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...

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...

It is possible that Using RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue in your startup task may cause the following exception in your Windows Azure web application: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment...

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...

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...

So you have a startup task in your any Windows Azure Role which included the following actions: Startup Tasktype is set to “Simple”. (Background and foreground task type will not block the role to start) Download ZIP installer from...

Part 1: Basics of running Nodes.js from command line: You can download node.exe from the link below: http://nodejs.org/ Now lets create app.js as below: var http = require('http'); http.createServer(function (req, res) { res.writeHead...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...