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Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the creation, building, configuring, debugging, running and packaging of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure. Windows
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Today, the IIS team released a the Web Platform Installer 2.0 RTW . Among the many cool new things (more tools, new applications, and localization to 9 languages) is the inclusion of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Install
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After you install the July 2009 CTP and create a new project via File | New Project | Cloud Service, you now have a single template “Cloud Service” instead of the 4 you had in the past. Clicking on that brings up our new project creation dialog. There
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[Update, voting for US entries has now concluded - opening for the international winner will open soon] Go to http://www.newcloudapp.com/vote.html to browse the apps and vote for a winner of the Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge. Voting ends
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Lately there has been a couple of threads on the forum and some internal email around setting up an https endpoint on a Windows Azure Cloud Service. A good starting point is this article , but there are some common issues that people run into that I wanted
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Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge! Everything you need to know from a page hosted on Windows Azure: http://www.newcloudapp.com/ Couple things to point out: There are 3 categories .Net Applications ($5000 prize), PHP Applications ($5000 prize)
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Back at Mix ‘09, we announced that Windows Azure will have support for specifying which geographical region you want your Cloud Service to run. If you now go to create a new Hosted Service on the Azure Services Developer Portal , you will be presented
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(Update 9/24/2009 -- We're now included in the Web Platform Installer! See: http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2009/09/24/installing-the-windows-azure-tools-using-the-web-platform-installer.aspx ) One of the first things I do when I get a new box is install
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If you weren't able to make it to MIX09 , you can catch videos of the sessions . My session is available for watching here: Using the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio to Build Cloud Services If you haven't seen the keynotes, I highly recommend
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One of the cool new features in the Windows Azure Mix 09 CTP is the ability to run your Web and/or Worker Roles in full trust (non-admin). This opens up all kinds of features that weren’t available in the previous CTPs. An interesting feature, which is
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New release of the Windows Azure SDK and Tools! From now on, you only have to download the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio and the SDK will be installed as part of that package. Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (please give
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When using the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio, there are two times that you end up creating a Windows Azure Service Package: When you build and run on the Development Fabric -- this is a folder based package, extension is csx. This is used by the
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We're excited to announce that we've released an update to the Windows Azure Tools and SDK. Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Windows Azure SDK What's new in the Tools? Addressed top customer bugs. Resolved hang and performance issues on
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If you create a new Cloud Service project in Visual Studio but it doesn't contain a Cloud Service project (ccproj), you won't get the Visual Studio integration for building Windows Azure services that you would expect. For example, you won't get debug/run
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The Windows Azure SDK contains a set of samples that will help you get started with and to learn about Windows Azure. In this post, I want to cover some potential issues that some of you may run into. Potential issue #1 : You try to load one of the Windows
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