Neil Kidd's Blog

For a while now I have been using a class that wraps and adds extra functionality to the queue in the StorageLib sample in the Windows Azure SDK. There are a few benefits that this wrapper provides, so I thought it might be time to share: Strongly typed Read More...

After the last 2 blog entries, we have our worker process's main loop feed back into Azure's heath checking system. If we go unhealthy, Azure will notice and will eventually restart the worker role. However, this is a bit heavy handed; what if the failure Read More...

Last week, for a Azure POC, we implemented something similar to the pattern shown in Part 1 . One revision, that I asked to be made, was to surround the DateTime access code with a lock statement; I was worried that updating a DateTime struct would not Read More...

If you are developing a queue based system in Windows Azure - and lets face it, if you want a highly scalable and reliable application, you going to be using queue - you are going to have to deal with poison messages. A poison message is a message that Read More...

When you are using a Windows Azure queue, you have to be quite particular how you name it. The rules are: The queue name must be a valid Domain Name System (DNS) name, conforming to the following naming rules: A queue name must start with a letter or Read More...