(The information in this post was created using Visual Studio 2010 and the Windows Azure SDK 1.6 in April of 2012.  All tests were done in the compute emulator.) I think of Azure diagnostics in two broad categories: the stuff that you get more-or-less for free and the stuff that you log with statements...

In my travels I hear about a lot of patterns of cloud computing.  One that I hear frequently is “upload a file and process it”.  This file could be financial data, pictures, video, electric meter readings, and lots more.  It’s so common, and yet when I Bing (yes, Bing ) for blob uploaders...