Recently I read a blog post about consuming Windows Azure Service Management API from Web/Worker Role. You can read that post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/asgoyal/archive/2013/07/23/consuming-service-management-api-from-web-worker-role.aspx. Upon reading the blog post, I found the process a bit … [Read more...]
Consuming Windows Azure Service Management API from Web/Worker Role–The Easy Way
July 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Windows Azure SDK 2.0 For .Net – Taking A Second Look At Windows Azure Diagnostics
May 12, 2013 by 5 Comments
A few days ago I wrote a post about newly released Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .Net. You can read that post here: https://gauravmantri.com/2013/04/30/introducing-windows-azure-sdk-2-0-for-net/. In that post I briefly talked about the improvements in the latest SDK with regards to Windows Azure … [Read more...]
Windows Azure Cloud Services, Extensions and Service Management API – Fun with Remote Desktop
May 6, 2013 by 8 Comments
I want you to try something for me (pretty please with cherry on top ). Fire up Visual Studio, create a simple Windows Azure Cloud Service and then without making any changes just publish that service. When you publish the service, DO NOT ENABLE REMOTE DESKTOP! Once the service is deployed, … [Read more...]
Workaround for IIS Express Crashing When Running Windows Azure Cloud Service Web Role with Multiple Instances in Windows Azure SDK 1.8 Compute Emulator
February 5, 2013 by 4 Comments
I ran into this weird issue when developing a very simple Windows Azure Cloud Service Web Role using Windows Azure SDK 1.8. I started off with a basic ASP.Net MVC 4 Web Role with no changes whatsoever. When I tried to debug it with just one instance running, everything worked great. The moment I … [Read more...]
(Some) Best Practices for Building Windows Azure Cloud Applications
January 11, 2013 by 7 Comments
In this blog post, I will talk about some of the best practices for building cloud applications. I started working on it as a presentation for a conference however that didn’t work out thus this blog post. Please note that these are some of the best practices I think one can follow while building … [Read more...]