If you create a Console Application in VS 2010: 1. Add reference DLL: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient 1. Add code: using Microsoft.WindowsAzure; using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient; When you compile this application you...

In the part 1 we have finished a Rails application name "RubyonAzure" as described in the link below: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive/2011/04/26/ruby-on-rails-in-windows-azure-part-1-setting-up-ruby-on-rails-in-windows-7-machine-with...

[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...

Visit to your Go to your Windows Azure Website: In your Windows Azure Website please select the following: FTP Host Name: *.ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net FTP User Login Name: yourwebsitename\yourusername Password: your_password Use...

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...

If you find a situation, where you will have to share the RDP access with someone else, in this case you can do the following to share your VM Access: 1. Go to Windows Azure Management Portal and in the Remote Access toolbar please select "Configure...

First of all you will need to get SSL certificate from a certificate authority (CA) for your domain i.e. www.yourcompanydomain.com . Please be sure that you are not going to request SSL certificate for cloudapp.net as this is not your domain, your...

Here is a list of performance counters, which you can use with Windows Azure Web Role: // .NET 3.5 counters @"\ASP.NET Apps v2.0.50727(__Total__)\Requests Total" @"\ASP.NET Apps v2.0.50727(__Total__)\Requests/Sec" @...

Once you have your Tomcat/Java based solution running on port 80 in Windows Azure you may decide to add HTTP endpoint to it or by the start of your service development you want to support HTTP and HTTPS endpoint with your Tomcat/Java service. To add a...

Once you have VM role enabled with your subscription, you can start working on VM Role using the step by step guide provided as below: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/WAZPlatformTrainingCourse_VMRoleLa b After finished creating your VHD for...

Azure VM Assistant (AzureVMAssist) is an utility which runs inside Azure VM and provide important information about VM environment specific Role details, health information etc. It also helps VM users to do several tasks faster and designed for day to...

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...

All of these tips are applicable to Windows Azure SDK 1.4, 1.5 and newly released 1.6. After working on VM Role deployment for so many times, I decided to writeup this blog entry as a note before starting VM Role deployment: Tools: 1. Be sure...

When you have your diagnostics enabled application running on Windows Azure, you might see that your Infrastructure Logs filled with lots of "ERROR_WINHTTP_AUTODETECTION_FAILED (12180)" errors related to Windows Azure storage access. Most of these errors...

As you may know, Azure VM size is set in 4 different catagories: Small - 250GB Medium - 500GB Large - 1TB ExtraLarge - 2TB It is possible that after your service is running and you might need to tune your service to add more space...

You can use Tomcat/Java in Windows Azure and you can get "Windows Azure Tomcat Solution Accelerator" from the link below: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/winazuretomcat/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3550 I have created a 65 document to explain...

Today Windows Azure Team released the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 Refresh. This refresh contains configuration and security changes that may affect services built using the Windows Azure November 2010 SDK (v 1.3) where a Web Role is deployed with the full IIS...

When you run CSUPLOAD tool on a Windows OS 7 32bit machine, you will receive the following error: An unexpected error occurred: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B) Exception:...

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...

As you may very well know Windows Azure SDK 1.5 is released today and available immediately so you can update your Windows Azure application immediately. More info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive/2011/09/14/windows-azure-sdk-1-5-is-released...

When you create a new application with Windows Azure SDK 1.5, you will see two separate Service Configuraiton files as below: ServiceConfiguration.Local.cscfg Use this file for local configuration which can be used for debugging your application...

Now anyone using Windows Azure Storage can sleep without any tension, by knowing that their data in Windows Azure Storage (blob, table and queue) have another safe copy replicated within the same region. I am awake at 10:20 PM for other reasons however...

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...

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...