We are nearing the completion of our multi-tenant Azure incubation project. I blogged in March about our plans for the addressing scheme.  Quite a bit has changed since then. URL Rewriting Revisited For many of our scenarios, URL Rewriting works...

Short article and sample code showing how to use LINQ to XML to retrieve Azure table data using the AZURE REST interface...

A colleague was having trouble getting Access Control Service to work correctly, so I put together a simple test to see what was being returned. This code will work from a web project, or you can just put it directly into an IIS folder. I have the...

In a previous post , I implemented a few of the Azure Table REST APIs as a starting point for testing without having to use the Storage Client sample that ships in the Azure SDK. The Azure Storage REST API is documented here . Instructions and the updated...

Most of the Azure table samples that I can find use the Storage Client to access the tables, which in turn uses the ADO.NET Data Services. While this provides a rich set of functionality, I wanted to explore the simplicity and flexibility of calling the...

Azure provides a set of storage services – blob, queue, and table – that are accessed via REST interfaces. The Azure SDK provides a sample .Net library that wraps the REST API to make Azure Storage easy to consume. As long as you have Internet connectivity...

There is a great thread on the MSDN forums about single-tenant vs. multi-tenant. It’s definitely worth the read. There is also a multi-tenant Azure sample available here . Thanks to smarx for helping me think through some of this. We are building...

In a previous post , I wrote about a very simple Access Control Service example that I assembled during our investigation of ACS and the cloud in general. The sample uses the Application_AuthenticateRequest event in global.asax to validate the security...

In a previous post , I wrote about a very simple Access Control Service example that I assembled during our investigation of ACS and the cloud in general. The sample uses the Application_AuthenticateRequest event in global.asax to validate the security...

Microsoft .NET Services are part of the Azure Services Platform . The Microsoft .NET Access Control Service provides an easy way to control web applications and services while integrating with standards-based identity providers, including enterprise directories...

On behalf of the RXG team, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the RXG team blog. We created this space to discuss some of the issues we are facing delivering customer solutions at scale. Who we are In the Relationship Experience Division (RXD...