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]
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]
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]
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]
Creating and Using Custom Performance Counters in Windows Azure 20 May 2011 Peter-Himschoot Azure, .NET Development, VS2010 Building software, especially software running on servers, requires some way to look “inside” the running application. Using the debugger is one way, but you cannot use a debugger on production applications. A better way is to use performance counters. These give you a way to see things, like how ha... [More]
Azure Toolkit released for iOS. 09 May 2011 Peter-Himschoot Reblogging from Wade Wagner, but I ‘m too excited just to include the link: I’m extremely excited to announce the immediate availability of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS (v1.0.0). This toolkit contains resources and services designed to make it easier for iOS developers to use Win... [More]
Silverlight and the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus 08 February 2011 Peter-Himschoot Azure, WPF/Silverlight, .NET Development, WCF This blog post will show you how to allow a Silverlight application to call a service over the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus. The problem you need to solve is that Silverlight will look for a “clientaccesspolicy.xml” at the root uri of the service. When I tried it myself I couldn’t find any “h... [More]
Managing your TFS work items 19 January 2011 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Team System Telerik just released a new version of their free Work Item Manager (WIM), which allows you to work with work items yet another way
Microsoft’s alternative to the iPad: the ExoPC 04 January 2011 Peter-Himschoot Windows 7 http://www.exopc.com/en/index.php
Azure Inter-role communication using callback instead of queues 20 December 2010 Peter-Himschoot Azure, WCF, VS2010, .NET Development I’m currently playing with Azure and the Azure training kit, and I learned something cool today. When you work with Azure you can setup multiple worker roles for your Azure application. If you want to make these roles talk to one another you can use the queuing mechanism which is part of Azure. But ... [More]