Windows Azure Team Blog

Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #19)

Posted On Friday, May 18, 2012

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here are ...

The Bing Search API on Windows Azure Marketplace is Here!

Posted On Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Bing Search API is now available on the Windows Azure Marketplace! With this service, you can embed web, image, news, and video search results, ...

ISV Guest Post Series: Softlibrary and Kern4Cloud on Windows Azure

Posted On Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Miguel Parejo, CTO at Softlibrary describes how the company uses Windows Azure and the Windows Azure Marketplace to run ...

Mark Your Calendar—MEET Windows Azure Event Streamed Online June 7th

Posted On Tuesday, May 15, 2012

One of the best ways to learn about Windows Azure is through our online events, free of charge, right from your favorite device.  Today we ...

Research Shows Cloud Computing Reduces Time and Money Spent Managing Security

Posted On Monday, May 14, 2012

Security is often reported as one of the top concerns or barriers to cloud adoption for businesses. To help dispel this perception, today Microsoft released ...

Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #18)

Posted On Friday, May 11, 2012

 Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here are ...

Real World Windows Azure: Interview with IDV Solutions Vice President Scott Caulk

Posted On Thursday, May 10, 2012

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, I connected with Scott Caulk, vice president of Product Management at IDV Solutions to learn more ...

Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Adrian Gonzalez, Technology Manager for the San Diego County Public Safety Group

Posted On Monday, May 7, 2012

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, I caught up with Adrian Gonzalez, Technology Manager for the San Diego County Public Safety Group ...

Updates to Windows Azure Marketplace Offer More Flexibility and Opportunity

Posted On Friday, May 4, 2012

Recent updates to the Windows Azure Marketplace promise to make things a little bit easier for publishers, developers and their customers. First, we’ve introduced promotion codes! ...

Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #17)

Posted On Friday, May 4, 2012

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here are ...

Windows Azure Developer Tools Team

Enabling Web Deploy for Windows Azure Web Roles with Visual Studio

Posted On Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Last week the Windows Azure SDK team released the Windows Azure SDK 1.4.1 refresh. This refresh adds support for Web Deploy to the Visual Studio ...

Announce the November 2010 Release of the Windows Azure Tools + SDK

Posted On Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Today, coinciding with the general availability of the new Windows Azure Management Portal, we have released version 1.3 of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK. The ...

The new Windows Azure Storage Browser in Visual Studio

Posted On Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Jim talks about the new Windows Azure Storage browser in the Server Explorer that was released with the June 2010 release of the Windows Azure ...

Debug your Windows Azure Cloud Services using IntelliTrace

Posted On Tuesday, June 7, 2011

A cool new feature in the June 2010 release of the Windows Azure Tools + SDK is the ability to use IntelliTrace in the Cloud.  ...

Announcing the June 2010 Release of the Windows Azure Tools + SDK

Posted On Tuesday, June 7, 2011

We're  pleased to announce the release of the June 2010 Windows Azure Tools + SDK. The Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio 2010 ...

WCF on Windows Azure

Posted On Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Jim just posted about updates to our wcfazure code gallery page and walks through one of the more common issues with using WCF on Windows ...

RoleEntryPoint Method Call Order

Posted On Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Learn more about the RoleEntryPoint methods and call order in Windows Azure. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cloud/archive/2010/02/11/roleentrypoint-method-call-order.aspx

Walkthrough: Migrating an ASP.NET Web App to Windows Azure

Posted On Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Using NerdDinner as an example, Jim walks through migrating an ASP.NET Web App to Windows Azure taking it from a single instance IIS hosted app ...

Windows Azure Tools and SDK v1.1 February 2010 Release

Posted On Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Today, coinciding with the general availability of Windows Azure, we have released version 1.1 of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK. This release supports VS 2008 ...

Windows Azure Role Instance Process IDs

Posted On Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Jim talks about how to correlate the Windows Azure Role instances you see in the Development Fabric to process IDs which in turn is useful ...

SQL Azure Team Blog

SQL Azure Blog is moving to the Official Windows Azure Platform Team Blog

Posted On Monday, July 18, 2011

In an effort to make it easier for you to stay on top of the latest product releases, resources, tools and news around the Windows Azure ...

MSDN Wiki Article: Q&A on Open Data Protocol (Odata)

Posted On Monday, July 18, 2011

MSDN has created a Q&A article on Odata (Open Data Protocol). OData applies web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and JSON to provide ...

Considerations When Building Database Schema with Federations in SQL Azure

Posted On Monday, July 18, 2011

Cihan Biyikoglu has written an interesting article on database schema when working with Federations. “With federations, you take parts of your schema and scale it out. ...

Troubleshooting and Optimizing Queries with SQL Azure

Posted On Monday, July 18, 2011

Dinakar Nethi has written an interesting TechNet Article about how the Dynamic Management Views that are available in SQL Azure and how they can be ...

Video How To: Synchronize and Share Data

Posted On Monday, June 13, 2011

This walkthrough shows how to use SQL Azure Data Sync to provide bi-directional synchronization and data-management capabilities with on-premises and cloud databases. The video covers both the ...

FAQ about Features of SQL Azure

Posted On Monday, June 13, 2011

We’ve been receiving questions about top on-going trends with regards to SQL Azure surrounding SQL Server limitations, and the access capabilities of co-administrators. Fortunately, the ...

Integrating SQL Azure with SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure

Posted On Monday, June 13, 2011

Steve Peschka wrote a great TechNet article a little while back about how to integrate SQL Azure services with Sharepoint 2010. He shares a few SQL Azure ...

Video How-To: Creating Line of Business Applications using SQL Azure

Posted On Monday, June 13, 2011

This walkthrough explains how to easily create Line of Business (LOB) applications for the cloud by using Visual Studio LightSwitch and SQL Azure. The video ...

Video How-To: Extending SQL Azure Data to Android and Other Platforms

Posted On Monday, June 13, 2011

This video demonstrates how easy it is to extend, share, and integrate SQL Azure data with mobile and heterogeneous applications using other programming platforms via an OData ...

Video How-To: Extending SQL Azure to Microsoft Applications

Posted On Monday, June 13, 2011

This walkthrough demonstrates how easy it is to extend, share, and integrate SQL Azure data with Microsoft applications via an OData service.  The video starts by reviewing the ...

AppFabric Team Blog

We’re Moving To The Windows Azure Team Blog

Posted On Monday, December 12, 2011

We are continually looking for ways to make it easier for you to stay on top of the latest product releases, resources, tools and news ...

WF Azure Activity Pack CTP 1

Posted On Wednesday, August 31, 2011

We’re so excited to announce that the WF Activity Pack for Azure has just been released! Please refer to our CodePlex page for the download ...

How to create a Custom Activity Designer with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4)

Posted On Monday, August 15, 2011

The Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) - Custom Activity Designer sample demonstrates how you can build an activity and activity designer.  It includes three projects ...

Windows Workflow Foundation – WF Migration Kit CTP 2 Released

Posted On Monday, August 1, 2011

Update We’re happy to announce that CTP 2 version of WF Migration Kit has been released to CodePlex, please refer to our CodePlex page ...

Announcing the Windows Azure AppFabric July release

Posted On Monday, July 25, 2011

Today we are excited to announce several updates and enhancements made to the Windows Azure AppFabric Management Portal and the Access Control service. Management Portal Localization As announced ...

Tutorial: Creating a custom external service in Azure AppFabric June CTP

Posted On Thursday, July 21, 2011

In this tutorial, Alan Smith (MVP) uses the Azure AppFabric June CTP to create a basic custom external service to call the BingMaps Geocode service. ...

Using MSBuild to deploy your AppFabric Application

Posted On Wednesday, July 20, 2011

As the hosting of applications moves from our local staging environments to the cloud, one of the areas that needs to improve is the ability ...

Announcing WCF Express Interop Bindings

Posted On Monday, June 13, 2011

Today, we are pleased to further simplify the WS-* interop challenge by providing the WCF Express Interop Bindings Extension for Visual Studio 2010, launched at ...

Updated IP addresses for AppFabric Data Centers

Posted On Monday, June 13, 2011

Today (6/10/2010) the Windows Azure AppFabric has updated the IP ranges on which the AppFabric nodes are hosted. If your firewall restricts outbound traffic, you ...

Making an activity’s display name readonly in the Workflow 4 designer

Posted On Monday, June 13, 2011

To make an activity's display name readonly, it isn't enough to use the ReadOnlyAttribute on the DisplayName. In order to do this, create a custom ...

Channel 9

Episode 80 – Getting Started with SQL Azure Data Sync Preview

Posted On Friday, May 11, 2012

Join Nate and Nick each week as they cover Windows Azure. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.In this episode, we are joined by Cory Fowler and Scott ...

Privacy Central Protecting Your Data Using Ruby on Windows Azure

Posted On Monday, May 7, 2012

Most consumers are unaware of the extent of publicly available, online exposures of their information – including phone numbers, current and past addresses, birth dates, ...

Episode 79 – Adding Push Notifications to Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps using Windows Azure

Posted On Friday, May 4, 2012

Join Nate and Nick each week as they cover Windows Azure. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.In this episode, our very own Nick Harris —Technical Evangelist for Windows ...

Scott Guthrie on Cloud-Powered Revolutions

Posted On Friday, May 4, 2012

Full post here >>Recorded live on location at Vancouver TechFest 2012, Scott talks about revolutions that are made possible by the Cloud. Plus: Scott dives ...

May Developer News – New Phone App, TechDays TV, Windows 8 Mini Camps, Windows Azure Workshops, and the Developer Movement

Posted On Thursday, May 3, 2012

Watch the full episode >>Host Jonathan Rozenblit goes through the monthly developer news:Canadian Developer Connection Windows Phone App (Windows Phone Marketplace) TechDays TV - May 8 - ...

Episode 78 – Security and Compliance

Posted On Sunday, April 29, 2012

Join Nate and Nick each week as they cover Windows Azure. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.In this episode, we are joined by Krishna Anumalasetty — Principal Program ...

Home Security System Using Kinect, Azure, Windows Phone and Windows 8

Posted On Thursday, April 26, 2012

Today's project I think it's only missing a kitchen sink. And while there's no download, there is a good bit of information provided to help ...

Episode 77 – Windows Azure Powershell Updates

Posted On Monday, April 23, 2012

Join Nate and Nick each week as they cover Windows Azure. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.In this episode, we are joined by Michael Washam — Senior Technical ...

TWC9: Azure Media Services, C9 for Win8, MAVIS and more

Posted On Saturday, April 21, 2012

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including: Announcing Windows Azure Media Services (Scott Guthrie), windowsazure.com Media Dev Center ...

Integrating with systems behind a firewall from CRM Online using Windows Azure Service Bus Relay

Posted On Monday, April 16, 2012

The Windows Azure Service Bus Relay enables applications hosted anywhere with an internet connection to securely call back to applications hosted in your own datacenter ...

Stack Overflow Azure

Pipe Read fails on Azure

By rss - May 18 2012 - No Comments
I have a legacy application that I am trying to run under an Azure worker. The application uses a ...
Stack Overflow Azure

new to windows azure powershell and can not connect to my azure app

By rss - May 18 2012 - No Comments
I am getting given error when I use powershell commandlets to connect azure app - Get-HostedService : Could not establish ...
Windows Azure Team Blog

Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #19)

By rss - May 18 2012 - No Comments
Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing ...
Stack Overflow Azure

Identify and giving roles to Azure ACS

By rss - May 18 2012 - No Comments
As we knew in Web got a lot of tutorial for Azure ACS, but most of it stop at inset ...
Stack Overflow Azure

Using the windows azure social games pack as a back end for Expression Blend SL5 \ Flex-Flash \ HTML5-JS?

By rss - May 18 2012 - No Comments
Thanks you in advance for the clarifications ! The social games pack is an MVC based publication template that beautifully ...
Stack Overflow Azure

Storing binary data (images, files, etc) using WPF + Windows Azure

By rss - May 18 2012 - No Comments
I have a WPF application that uses Windows Azure as the backend. I use SQL Azure to store data that ...
Stack Overflow Azure

side-by-side configuration issure in an windows azure virtual machine

By rss - May 18 2012 - No Comments
I'm doing a experiment on purpose of making a executable program work on windows azure. First i tried to make it ...
Stack Overflow Azure

How reload Application on azure

By rss - May 18 2012 - No Comments
I have problem with wcf application and azure. This is my class in wcf app: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.ServiceModel; namespace ...
Stack Overflow Azure

Azure Platform Ready – HTTPS test case failure

By rss - May 18 2012 - No Comments
I am trying to get my Azure application through the Microsoft Platform Ready test. I have successfully got the test ...
Stack Overflow Azure

Windows Azure Node.js SDK

By rss - May 18 2012 - No Comments
I am wondering how to get continuation tokens using the Windows Azure Node.js SDK? For example using the SDK ...
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