Problem There is an issue where remote access (RDP) can stop working all of a sudden to all instances of a deployment that are running in Azure.  The problem is that the process that handles RDP requests has crashed.  If you have Windows Azure...

Problem We have seen an issue where a worker role running inside Windows Azure will crash, especially if it is under heavy load.  The problem is with IntelliTrace being enabled.  To determine if this is causing your worker role to crash, the...

Windows Azure, just like any other IIS website can crash if an unhandled exception occurs.  One way that this can happen is if you are calling an Async function call and in the function that is called on completion, you throw an exception. In this...

Problem We recently had a case where a role was stuck in this state.  So on the portal, the deployment line said “Initializing” and the role says “Preparing Node” and it never moves past this.  We cannot remote in using RDP or anything else...

If you want to use the Azure Management APIs from Linux, there are a few things you need to do so that it will work correctly.  If you are getting a problem when you try to connect where it looks like the Azure side is just closing the connection...

Now that we have released the Windows Azure Storage Analytics , there are some useful tools to look at the data.  If you want to write code to do this, you can check out this post for some sample code.  You can also use Avkash's blog post to...

I am very happy to announce that Psscor4 is now available for download.  You can download it from: Psscor4 Managed-Code Debugging Extension for WinDbg This should have the same functionality as Psscor2 does but it works against the .NET 4.0 Framework...

I have seen a number of issues where the Windows Azure role is stuck when you deploy it and you can’t get it started.  There are a few great posts about this problem at: Windows Azure role stuck in Initializing/Busy/Stopping Another common reason...

Windows Azure has a lot of great things about it, but one of the difficulties is that you can’t administer your IIS very easily as you don’t have access to the machine.  If you use the Windows Azure 1.3 SDK or later and enable RDP, you can change...

If you try to build a WCF RIA Application and the Entity Model (EM) doesn’t include foreign key information you will get an error like: Unable to retrieve association information for association ‘MyModel.MyAssociation’. Only models that include foreign...

If you have ever tried to look at a System.DateTime or System.TimeSpan object in a debugger, you know how difficult it is to see what the value is.  For example, this is what a System.DateTime object looks like: 0:017> !do 0x040f59b8 Name: System...

Continuing on from my previous post about DumpAllExceptions , here is another new update that comes with psscor2.  When you run !clrstack, you will now see the source and line information for the functions that are displayed.  This can be really...

There have been a few places where you can see this command run, but I wanted to talk about it here officially.  This command is used to display all of the exceptions that are currently in the managed heap.  One interesting thing is that this...

*UPDATE* The download is now 32-bit ! I wanted to be the first to inform everyone that there is a major update to the debugger extension story for .NET. Psscor2 has been released! This is a superset of the SOS.dll that ships with the framework. ...

There are a lot of different ways to troubleshoot ASP.NET issues.  I have gone over most of the things you can do with a dump that has been captured from the process.  But there is another way to get useful information out of a process and that...

Recently had this problem with a customer.  The full details and the solution follow. Problem The customer had an AJAX website where intermittently he sees that the webresource.axd and scriptresource.axd come down from the server as 0 bytes and therefore...

Problem There may be some times where you will see this message when developing an application for Windows Azure.  The message will look like: There is not enough space on the disk. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution...

Wow there have been a lot of updates to the Windows Azure Platform that were announced at the PDC .  I would love to hear from folks to let me know what they are most excited about.  I was most impressed with the announcement of Dallas . ...

Do you develop applications using .NET?  If so, head on over to this new contest at http://www.mydotnetstory.com and entry your story for a chance to win some really great prizes.  What can you win?  Well, if you are chosen by the judges...

I was troubleshooting a problem with WCF where the updates to a remote database were failing.  The reason for the failure was found pretty quickly to be delegation. For general impersonation questions in regards to WCF, there is lots of great information...

With Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 getting ready to be shipped sometime in the next year, I wanted to see what were peoples ideas for how to debug applications that were written with them.  Are you happy in production with what you are currently...

In case anyone is interested in taking some Microsoft Exams, we have some discounts on them.  Here is the announcement talking about the discounts: Get up to 25 percent off select Microsoft Certification exams In this tough economy, are you looking...

I was recently working on a project and needed to have Silverlight make a WCF call.  That is pretty straight forward until you place the Silverlight code inside SharePoint and want it to call a WCF that is also inside SharePoint. The first problem...

I wanted to start a conversation with everyone on the thoughts around Cloud Computing.  I have been using Azure for a while now and I have found some interesting things out about it. Before I start talking about those things though, I wanted to see...

Just a quick update on this.  I had to make a few changes to my site and I now have it working! To fix the master page problem, I needed to load it from code behind.  Once I did that, I was able to have that show up.  But then I had a problem...