Shawn Cicoria - CedarLogic

Perspectives and Observations on Technology

Recent Posts

Sponsors

Tags

General





Community

Email Notifications

Blogs I Read

Archives

Other

Use OpenDNS

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Azure (RSS)
Learn More about Microsoft Codename "Trust Services" - TechNet Articles - Home - TechNet Wiki
Many companies, ISV’s, and solutions have concerns about data in the cloud.  With PKI based encryption, Trust Services provides key management for your publisher/subscribers and a simplified SDK set of classes to abstract the encryption, decryption...
Posted: 02-04-2012 6:50 AM by cicorias | with no comments
Filed under: ,
Comparison of Windows Azure Storage Queues and Service Bus Queues « Microsoft Technologies Rocks !!!
Nice table comparing Windows Azure Queues vs. Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus – note the comment regarding in WAZ SDK 1.5 Queue message size is now 64KB Of course, I like the name of the blog too. Comparison of Windows Azure Storage Queues and Service...
Posted: 09-20-2011 5:06 AM by cicorias | with no comments
Filed under:
Hosted Service as a Windows Azure CDN Origin Tips
The Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) helps improve the solution experience by putting content closer to the end-user, enhances availability, geo-distribution, scalability, lower latency delivery, and performance. If that’s the goal we want...
How does the Windows Azure Fabric controller do that?
Kevin Williamson has a great post on the overall flow of things from the point of publishing of your package up on the Windows Azure Developer Portal to Run(). These are good things to know as many times you need to inject steps, tasks, context at various...
Posted: 05-26-2011 8:23 AM by cicorias | with no comments
Filed under:
CloudNinja - Windows Azure Multi-tenant Sample - Home
So, as one of the OneTAP leads for Windows Azure focusing on the BizSpark folks, I run into many questions regarding HOWTO and in areas of Auto-Scaling, provisioning, authentication. The folks at Full Scale 180 ( http://www.fullscale180.com ) have created...
Posted: 05-18-2011 5:41 AM by cicorias | with no comments
Filed under: , ,
Getting the MVC3 assemblies as part of your Windows Azure deployment
There have been several techniques that have been posted on getting the MVC3 reference assemblies deployed as part of your Windows Azure Solution. http://blog.smarx.com/posts/asp-net-mvc-in-windows-azure This is something I learned today is in Visual...
Posted: 04-15-2011 6:11 AM by cicorias | with no comments
Filed under: , , ,
Differences when Running with OutputCache managed module under ASP.NET IIS7.x with Cache-control header
This post is to report some differences when using MVC or IHttpHandlers if you’re attempting to set the Cache-control : max-age or s-maxage value under IIS7.x using the HttpResponse.Cache methods. [UPDATE]: 2011-3-14 – The missing piece was calling ...
Taking advantage of Windows Azure CDN and Dynamic Pages in ASP.NET - Caching content from hosted services
With the updates to Windows Azure CDN announced this week [ 1 ] I wanted to help illustrate the capability with a working sample that will serve up dynamic content from an ASP.NET site hosted in a WebRole. First, to get a good overview of the capability...
Running Jetty under Windows Azure Using RoleEntryPoint in a Worker Role
This post is built upon the work of Mario Kosmiskas and David C. Chou’s prior postings – from here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mariok/archive/2011/01/05/deploying-java-applications-in-azure.aspx   http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dachou/archive/2010/03/21/run...
Posted: 03-03-2011 4:34 PM by cicorias | with no comments
Filed under: , ,
Azure VS Tools and SDK - systray already running…
If you are getting a message when you start the Compute Emulator “Systray already running…” from within Visual Studio one fix is to check what the image name is loading is. For some reason, on 2 of my machines the image was loading with the 8.3 format...
Posted: 03-02-2011 6:24 PM by cicorias | with no comments
Filed under: ,
Visual Studio 2010 Setup Projects and x64 Support
I was taking the Windows Azure CmdLets project and getting it into an MSI just to make it easier to deploy in a nice package.  I ran into problems with the Setup project not being able to properly establish the right registry settings for an x64...
Tongue in Cheek Geek Humor from the PDC
An old colleague ( Biff Gaut ) of mine has a great daily newsletter from the PDC.  This is certainly targeted for those of us looking for a “light” look at all things new that come out of PDC, but at times very technical with a perspective from someone...
Posted: 11-17-2009 5:12 AM by cicorias | with no comments
Filed under: , , ,