[Added new info - 05/31/2012] Around April-May 2012 time frame Windows Azure migrated to use software Load Balancers and because of that the 1 minutes problem is gone as the default timeout is larger then 1 minute depend on number of current connections...

If you have a WCF application which is connecting to Windows Azure Service Bus over REST using webHttpRelayBinding, it is possible you may hit the following error: [InvalidOperationException: The service cannot be activated because it does not support...

As you may know that Wolfram|Alpha Facts database is accessible directly from web http://www.wolframalpha.com/ also you can subscribe from Windows Azure DataMarket for free of cost to use it within your application and run query. As world population reached...

Microsoft Codename "Social Analytics" is a suite of Azure services for developers and end-users enabling businesses to integrate the social web into their business applications. Our goal is to enable businesses to build connections and communities among...

After the release of latest Windows Azure SDK 1.6, you may have wonder where is Windows Azure AppFabric SDK 1.6? Before SDK 1.6 release, AppFabric SDK was shipped separate from Azure SDK. However things are changed now and Windows Azure SDK 1.6 merges...

In this example I will show you how you can access Service Configuration settings in Windows Azure Startup Task. The startup task is Startup.cmd which is launching another batch file name showconfvalues.cmd. The Startup.cmd is as below: cd /d...

In Windows Azure you can create multiple website running within a single web role. For each site you can use HTTP and HTTPS endpoint. Please follow the blog below from Wade on how to have multiple domains in one web role: http://www.wadewegner.com...

If you are using Windows Azure AppFabric ACS to use Identity Providers (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, ADFS WLID, or any other Open ID Identity Provider), you might have the question about how to logout gracefully from your application, other than closing...

In an Windows Azure application when both client and service are running in two different Windows Azure virtual machines, I found some strange behavior. I found that the following code which was using client certificate to authenticate with WCF...

I was asked recently to provide a sample which has Windows Azure Web Role with Silverlight front end, calling to WCF service which is hosted in the same Windows Azure Web Role. I decided to share those details and sample with everyone. This sample is...

Windows Azure SDK 1.6 is out today and you can install it directly from Web (Web Platform Installer 3.0 Required) Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sdk/ Note: Windows Azure SDK 1.6 web platform deployment is based...

Windows Azure SDK 1.6 is out now and you can install it directly from Web (Web Platform Installer 3.0 Required) Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sdk/ Get more info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive...

The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Windows Azure platform. November 2011 Update The November 2011...

In this article we will learn how to create a Windows Azure Web Role based application using ASP.NET MVC4 template. To start You must have VS2010 professional or above Visual Studio SKU otherwise you can download free version of Visual Studio Web Developer...

Java Windows Azure SDK for Java http://www.windowsazure4j.org/ Installing Windows Azure SDK for Java http://www.windowsazure4e.org/download/ Apache Tomcat Startup task based Tomcat/Java Worker Role Application...

When you write Windows Azure application, you may wish you include you own error or notifications in the event log. Or you would like to save exceptions in the event log which ultimately collected by Windows Azure Diagnostics in the Azure VM and sent...

I was recently asked if there is an API which can enable CDN for a Windows Azure storage account programmatically? After a little digging I found that as of now you cannot programmatically enable CDN for a Windows Azure Storage account. You will...

Recently I was working with a partner problem in which the Azure web role was stuck and showing “preparing node” status in Windows Azure Management portal. Luckily RDP access to Azure VM was working so investigation to the problem was easier...

A recent question was raised about Windows Azure Cloud drive and snapshots limit so hear is the answer: Windows Azure cloud drive have no limit in terms of having snapshots. You can have as many as drive snapshots you would want to however as the...

Windows Azure virtual machines goes at least once a month for guest OS update and similarly Host OS update. Because of it the Windows Azure virtual machine, in which your application in running, will part of guest or host OS update and will be down for...

Windows Azure Queue can have a message content size up to 64KB per message. This updated was included in Version 2011-08-18 and newer. If you are still on old version, then Windows Azure Queue will have 8KB message. This size 64KB refers to the...

When just running or debugging your Windows Azure application in Compute Emulator, you might hit the following error: Error, 0, 5c7858b7-deaf-41cb-9a87-ad2356fffedb`GetAgentState`System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: Could not connect to net...

Windows Azure Power Shell Cmdlets 2.0 was released last month. You can download the latest version from the link below: Download Link: http://wappowershell.codeplex.com/releases/view/73463 Documentation and details: http://wappowershell...

Today while I was testing my web role which includes Google Identity Provider with Windows Azure AppFabric ACSv2 locally in compute emulator I found after google IP authentication the return URL is my actual web role running in cloud. My expectation...

What if you launch Windows Azure Computer Emulator in your Windows machines and return the following error: C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.5>csrun /devfabric:start for Microsoft(R) .NET Framework 3.5 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation...