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...

In a situation when you have millions of blobs in a Azure Storage container, it may take hours to list all of your blobs. This is mostly because huge bandwidth overhead due to uncompressed XML about container/blob data. To expedite displaying...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...