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Here’s a fun little thing I found out about recently. Suppose, I have a Cloud Service that I’m running on the devfabric and I want to simulate a configuration change. I’ll start by creating a cloud service with a single web role: Opening the service configuration
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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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In the July 2009 CTP of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio , we introduced a bug where if you use the App.Config file in a Worker Role, it won’t get included in your Service Package both when running on the local Development Fabric or
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If you’ve been following along, you’ll remember my post about using an existing ASP.NET Web Application as a Web Role . We’re now a little smarter in the tools and can allow you to associate any ASP.NET Web Application in the Cloud Service as a Web Role.
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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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I’m pleased to announce that we have released a new version of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK ! (will take time to propogate, try the direct link to the download ) What’s New for the July 2009 CTP? Support for developing and deploying services containing
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Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (includes SDK). If the release is still propagating, try the Direct Link New for the May 2009 CTP: Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Update for Visual Studio 2008 Improved integration with the Development
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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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What is the Service Package? It is what contains the Service Definition for your Cloud Service along with the content and binaries for each of the roles. It comes in 2 flavors. The first being a folder structure with the extension csx. For example if
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If you are trying a FastCGI application on Windows Azure and see the following message: CCT: Error: FastCGI module at C :\Windows\system32\inetsrv\iisfcgi.dll with version 7.0.6001.22229 is not up-to-date. CCT: The system is missing a prerequisite to
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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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Update : We've refreshed the release and this new release resolves these issues. See here for more information. We recently helped out a couple of folks on the Windows Azure Forum and felt it would be useful to post some information about two issues we’ve
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