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New Windows Azure CDN features and SDK 1.4
Windows Azure SDK 1.4 was released yesterday with no breaking changes and a lot of stability fixes. You can get the bits from here. Among an important fix, specially if you use a source control system, where the web.config was being locked but Windows Azure Tools still needed write access to update the machine key, … Continue reading
Using Windows Azure AppFabric Cache (CTP) on CodeProject
I posted an article at CodeProject explaining how you can use Windows Azure AppFabric Cache (CTP) in your applications. You can find the article here -> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/azure/WA-AppFabric-cache.aspx Please let me know if you liked or not and of course any comments are more than welcome! Thank you, PK.
CDN — Do you get corrupt data while an update on the content is happening?
A lot of interesting things have been going on lately on the Windows Azure MVP list and I’ll be try to pick the best and the ones I can share and make some posts. During an Azure bootcamp another fellow Windows Azure MVP, had a very interesting question “What happens if someone is updating the … Continue reading
Bug in SQL Azure documentation on how to calculate DB size.
A fellow Windows Azure MVP, Rainer Stroper, had a very interesting case recently were he got a “reached quota” message for his SQL Azure database, although the query was indicating he was using about ~750MB on a 1GB size Web Edition database. The problem was narrowed done to a bug in the documentation ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394114.aspx) … Continue reading
Joining Devoteam Belgium
This week, I’ve joined Devoteam Belgium as a .NET Consultant and Microsoft Trainer, focused on Windows Azure and Sharepoint and of course Trainings. It’s been a great starting week, meet a lot of interesting people and found out that there are other MVPs working around me: Serge Luca (MVP Sharepoint , Microsoft Certified Trainer) Didier … Continue reading
Amazon Web Services free tier analysis
Amazon announced the AWS Free Usage Tier (http://aws.amazon.com/free/) last week, which will start from November the 1st. I know some people are excited about this announcement and so am I because I believe that competition between cloud providers always brings better service for the customer, but in Amazon’s case, it’s more like a marketing trick … Continue reading
Patterns: Windows Azure – Upgrading your table storage schema without disrupting your service
In general, there are two kind of updates you’ll mainly perform on Windows Azure. One of them is changing your application’s logic (or so called business logic) e.g. the way you handle/read queues, or how you process data or even protocol updates etc and the other is schema updates/changes. I’m not referring to SQL Azure … Continue reading
SQL Azure – Programmatically set your firewall settings
One of the latest features introduced on SQL Azure is the abillity to apply firewall settings on your database and allow only specific IP ranges to connect to it. This can be done through SQL Azure Portal or through code using stored procedures. If you want to take a look at which rules are active … Continue reading
Windows Azure–Custom persistence service for WF 4 saving information on Windows Azure Blob
Recently, I’ve been looking a way to persist the status of an idling Workflow on WF4. There is a way to use SQL Azure to achieve this, after modifying the scripts because they contain unsupported T-SQL commands, but it’s totally an overkill to use it just to persist WF information, if you’re not using the … Continue reading
My great experience with Windows Azure customer support
Once again, Microsoft proved that it values its customers, either big enterprise or small startups. We’re a small private-held business and I personally have a major role in it as I’m one of the founders. Recently, I’ve been giving some pretty nice presentations and a bunch of sessions for Microsoft Hellas about Windows Azure and … Continue reading
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