As of today there have been 295 downloads of the Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 . In the past week or so I've blogged about a few additional samples. One of them details a fully scripted deployment of a Windows Azure CSPGK file using only...

I put together a sample on how you can configure, download, analyze and manage your performance counter logs on a Windows Azure service all through the new capabilities we've added with Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0. Here is a link to the detailed...

Even while we are here at BUILD we are working hard to make deploying and managing your Windows Azure applications simpler. We have made some significant improvements to the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets and we are proud to announce we are...

I wrote an example of how you can use PowerShell to automate attaching adplus.exe to all instances of a role in your Windows Azure deployment. This can be EXTREMELY handy for tracking down random crashes that are just difficult to figure out through logging...

An updated release of Visual Studio Tools for Windows Azure have been released. You can download them here though the Web Platform Installer . New in this release: - Profile applications running in Windows Azure. - Create ASP.Net MVC3 Web Roles...

In between preparing for the BUILD event in September I've been hacking away with C++ and Windows Azure AppFabric queues. I put together a short (well short by C++ standards) example of using WinHTTP to access AppFabric queues from native C++. Windows...

Interview with Principal Technical Lead Clemens Vasters and Principal Development Manager Murali Krishnaprasad (MK) regarding the May 2011 CTP release of Windows Azure AppFabric. We discuss new technologies such as Topics, Queues, Subscriptions and...

I made my first demo in Norm Judah's foundation session! http://michaelwasham.com/2011/05/18/my-first-teched-demo-and-the-rest-of-teched-2011-recorded-sessions/ The most exciting tech (for me) was the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP announcements: ...

I have started writing some articles on how to deploy COM+ out into the cloud. The first post is here: http://michaelwasham.com/2011/05/15/com-and-serviced-components-within-windows-azure/ . It gives an overview of what is available and what isn't...

I just made a quick follow up post on my primary blog regarding starting a Windows Service from the Run() method of an Azure role . If you set the service to manual and start it using the ServiceController class the service "should" fall within guest...

I learned a few tips about how the firewall rules are configured for Windows Azure that I thought I would share. In the interest of trying to consolidate where I blog at I posted it here: Windows Azure Internal Endpoints and Firewall Settings

The overall proof of concept I’m trying out is how you could migrate a Native Windows Service to Azure and communicate with this service from another role instance in the cloud. The goal is to reuse as much code as possible while still allowing...

It's good to be back! I took a short break from Microsoft this last year helping my wife get her real estate business automated (100% Microsoft of course). Now I'm back at work with Microsoft doing a brand new and exciting role! In my new role I...

Visual Studio Extensions 1.3 has new features that allow the packaging and deployment of a workflow into a SharePoint Solutions Package (.WSP). I’m starting off with a real simple workflow. Essentially, when the workflow is activated it will assign...

Why does my event receiver / handler run more than once when I update or add a new list item? There are a few common situations where this can occur. The first and most obvious is when you are handling an ItemUpdated event and within the event you...

STSADMExtractFiles is a sample application that extends the STSADM.EXE command line via the ISPStsadmCommand interface and adds three new commands to the tool: savefile, savefromfolder and restorefile. The purpose of the sample is to show how an application...

The following examples demonstrates a JavaScript client calling into a WCF Service which allows updates of SharePoint list data. All deployable from a SharePoint solution (WSP). The first thing you'll need is the .NET Framework 3.5 installed on your...

If you are looking at the various blog entries regarding IRuntimeFilter and are left wondering why it is considered a “deprecated” interface in SharePoint 2007 wonder no more! The functionality of IRuntimeFilter is not gone forever it has just been updated...