Microsoft Codename Cloud Numerics
Microsoft Codename “Cloud Numerics” is a new .NET programming framework which can be used to perform intensive numeric computations on large distributed data sets. If you are some one who works with large data sets, extracting the data and forming and simulating the models then you might need more computing power and memory.
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No commentsWindows Azure–Security essentials
| This post discusses about Security essentials which technical decision maker should know in-order to protect customers applications and data in Windows Azure platform. Instead you building the server racks and datacenters, Cloud takes your traditional data centers from you and run on their premises which greatly reduces the cost and maintenance. Cloud runs as services platform follows the SAS(software as service) model. |  |
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1 commentCreating Firewall rules using SQL Azure
| The firewall feature in Windows Azure portal allows you to store your data securely on cloud which deny all connections by default. The new firewall feature allows you to specify list of IP addresses which can access your SQL Azure Server.You can also programmatically add connections and retrieve information for SQL Azure database. This post discusses about creating the firewall rule using the Azure portal. |  |
1. Browse the website https://windows.azure.com/ and enter your live account credentials
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No commentsDeploying Windows Azure Application Part2
| In my previous post I have discussed about creating the service accounts which required to create to deploy the windows azure application. This post discusses the second step which is deploying the application management portal. Windows Azure tools for visual studio allows you to create and deploy the service package to Windows Azure using Visual Studio. | |
Before deploying the application to the staging environment using management portal, generate the service package using the visual studio
1. Open the ServiceConfiguration.cscfg file in windows azure service project
replace the placeholders [YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME] with the storage account name which you created in the step1 and [YOUR_ACCOUNT_KEY] with the primary key access value.
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No commentsDeploying a Windows Azure application Part1
| This post discuss about deploying your web applications or WCF Applications to Windows Azure using the new Management Portal. Before deploying the application to portal , you need to have a subscription with Windows Azure read this post to signup for a Windows Azure account and to purchase a subscription. | |
After having an account with Windows Azure you need to do the below steps to deploy your application to portal
Step1 Create the required service components
Step2 Upload and configure the application package to Staging Area [Nothing but deploying the application to Management portal]
Creating a Storage Account and a Hosted Service Component
1. You need to create a Windows Azure storage account to allow your application to persist the data.You need to have a Hosting Service component to execute your application.
Sign in to the windows azure management portal by navigating to http://windows.azure.com/
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1 commentWCF Services in Windows Azure
| What is Windows Azure? Windows Azure provides developers computation power storage and can scale web applications on internet through Microsoft Datacenters. Developers can use Azure platform to build WCF service application using their existing Visual Studio 2010 expertise. | |
Windows Azure supports the protocols and formats including SOAP, REST and XML. This post discuss about creating a simple WCF Service and hosting it on Windows Azure and consuming in client application.
1. Create a WCF Service Contract in Windows Class Library project as shown below which in-turn you use in Web role, worker role and in client application. Read more about roles in windows Azure here
1: using System;
2: using System.ServiceModel;
3: namespace WCFContract
4: {
5: [ServiceContract]
6: public interface IContract
7: {
8: // This operating returns the server information, including
9: // the role's name and instance id
10: [OperationContract]
11: string GetRoleInfo();
12:
13: // This operation returns the information of the channel
14: // being used between the client & the server.
15: [OperationContract]
16: string GetCommunicationChannel();
17: }
18: }
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1 commentTop Weekly Updates!
Azure Toolkit for iOS developers
Few days ago Windows Azure team released a tool kit for iOS. It is a Object C library where you can write a code for devices eg: It uses the same set of services for Windows Phone 7 and upcoming Android toolkit. You can use these Access Control services to write code for various devices.
More about can be read here
Azure AppFabric July Release
There are several enhancements made to the Windows Azure AppFabric Portal and the Access Control Service more can be read here
Windows Phone “Mango” released to Manufacturing
Mango is the next release OS for Windows Phone. Team introducing the fastest HTML5 mobile web browser in this release. More about this can be read here
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Available
I have written a post on creating a sample on Beta2 here. Now it is released and you can try and download the product from here
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No commentsConfiguring Session Support Using the Azure
| In-memory session support is un-suitable in Azure Fabric environment. There is a possibility in windows azure where you can host a web role on multiple machines inside the fabric. AspProviders project which I explained in earlier post uses BLOB storage to store session itself. This post explains about configuring the ASP.NET application to use Azure session state provider. We can configure the Session Support using Azure Tablestorageprovider. | |
1. Insert the following in web.config file of the Azure Asp.net application.
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No commentsUsing the Azure ASP.NET Providers with ASP.NET Applications
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My previous post explained that changes that are necessary to run an existing ASP.NET application in the Windows Azure environment. This post explains about using Azure ASP.NET membership and role providers in ASP.NET web application. |
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1. Download the code asp.net providers for Azure from the MSDN Code Gallery.
Add the downloaded project to your existing ASP.NET Solution and add a reference to the Project as well.
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1 commentMOVING Web Applications to the CLOUD
| This post discusses about preparing the Web application to run in CLOUD (Windows Azure) Environment. We will create a new windows azure project in VS 2010 to move the existing ASP.NET web application. Process described below works for both ASP.NET Web and MVC applications. |  |
You need to download and install the following tools from here to move the applications to windows azure environment.
