Running multiple sites in one Windows Azure Web Role 28 June 2011 Peter-Himschoot Azure, VS2010, .NET Development Since the release of the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 it is possible to host multiple sites in one web role. In this blog post I will show you how to do this. 1. Creating the Azure project Start by creating a new Azure Cloud project. Add a single WebRole project (call it MultiSitesWebRole) to it: Hit ... [More]
Remote debugging a Windows Azure Worker Role using Azure Connect, Remote desktop and the remote debugger, part 3 27 June 2011 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Azure, VS2010 This is the third part of the “Remote debugging a Windows Azure Worker Role using Azure Connect, Remote desktop and the remote debugger”. In this part I will show you how to attach the remote debugger on your worker role and start debugging… Step 3: Connect to the remove debugger In the previous b... [More]
Remote debugging an Azure worker role using Azure Connect, remote desktop and remote debugger, part 2 25 June 2011 Peter-Himschoot This is the second part of the “Remote debugging a Windows Azure Worker Role using Azure Connect, Remote desktop and the remote debugger”. In this part I will show you how to get the remote debugger on your worker role. Step 2: Copy the remote debugger on your worker role instance Start by creatin... [More]
Remote debugging an Azure Worker role, using Azure Connect, Remote desktop and the remote debugger 22 June 2011 Peter-Himschoot Azure, .NET Development, VS2010 So, you have some code running in a Windows Azure Worker role on Azure (not on the Azure Compute Emulator) and you need to debug what is going on. In this blog post I will show you how you can use Azure Connect, the remote desktop and the remote debugger to look inside your worker role. WARNING: t... [More]
Visual State Manager or rather Behavior ? (part 3) 20 June 2011 Michael-Van-Wesemael Behavior, Silverlight, Windows Phone So far, so good. I created a little application indicating the distance to my geographically closest friend. I used Visual State Manager for making my indicator change, depending on the distance I get from the Distance-service. It takes some practice to get used to it. Now, I have two little problem... [More]
Getting Started Developing on Azure: Creating the Hosted Service and Storage Account 20 June 2011 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Azure, VS2010 This is the next post on Getting Started developing on Azure with Visual Studio 2010 and Installing the Azure Management Certificates. Starting to develop on Azure with Visual Studio can be a lot to eat the first time. Getting Visual Studio ready, including installing the Management Certificates an... [More]
Visual State Manager or rather Behavior ? (part 2) 19 June 2011 Michael-Van-Wesemael Silverlight, Visual State Manager, Windows Phone In part 1 I set up the service and the WP7-application. The WP7-application will poll the service regularly for asking the distance to the closest friend. Let's now finish the WP7-app so we can show the distance by a little indicator. When closer than 2 (km? miles ? light-years ? You choose) the ind... [More]
Installing the Azure Management Certificates 16 June 2011 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Azure, VS2010 This is the next post on Getting Started developing on Azure with Visual Studio 2010. Starting to develop on Azure with Visual Studio can be a lot to eat the first time. Getting Visual Studio ready, including installing the Management Certificates and so on is not a simple task (the first time anyw... [More]
Visual State Manager or rather Behavior(part 1) 16 June 2011 Michael-Van-Wesemael Silverlight, Visual State Manager, Windows Phone During an interesting event last week, discussing the virtues of Silverlight apps out of the browser, I was confronted with Behavior. I should probably be ashamed because I never heard of them before. Because they have a high coolness- and awesomeness-level I checked if they were also available for ... [More]
Getting started developing on Azure with Visual Studio 2010 14 June 2011 Peter-Himschoot Azure, VS2010, .NET Development Starting to develop on Azure with Visual Studio can be a lot to eat the first time. Getting Visual Studio ready, including installing the Management Certificates and so on is not a simple task (the first time anyway). So that is why I made this little walk-through series on starting to develop on Az... [More]