Connecting Microsoft Access to SQL Azure

I have already posted on many level 100 developers articles on SQL Azure. You can read them here. I thought if my SQL Azure blog post series does not have a post on “Connecting SQL Azure to Microsoft Access “then it cannot be called as complete post series. So I gave a try and cameContinueContinue reading “Connecting Microsoft Access to SQL Azure”

Windows Azure for Developers Task 11: Create X.509 certificate for Windows Azure Web Role

Before we will come to know, how to create X.509 certificate for Windows Azure web Role, let us understand why we need a certificate for a role? It authenticates whether an operation on an azure subscription is authenticated or not? Certificates help us for Authentication. There are two types of certificates 1. Management certificates 2.ContinueContinue reading “Windows Azure for Developers Task 11: Create X.509 certificate for Windows Azure Web Role”

Presented at Mindracker MVP Summit: 15-16th April 2011

Presented at Mindracker MVP Summit: 15-16th April 2011 I got an opportunity to be part of first ever Mindcracker MVP summit held on 15th – 16th April in Delhi India. Summit was in a Country Inn five star hotel. Best part of summit was Mindcracker Network took care of all expenses from travelling to accommodationContinueContinue reading “Presented at Mindracker MVP Summit: 15-16th April 2011”

Getting Session ID in SQL Azure programmatically

There is a Session Id assigned to each connection to SQL Azure. Session Id may be very useful in debugging and can be logged by the developers. In this article, I will show “How could fetch Session Id programmatically? First step to create a class with the properties 1. Server Name 2. Login Name 3.ContinueContinue reading “Getting Session ID in SQL Azure programmatically”

Presented at Azure Boot camp: Pune 9th April 2011

Download presentation from here Read articles on Demonstrations of this presentation I must say “Pune user group delivered an effective Azure Boot Camp “. On a Saturday, it was nice to see more than 50 participants. Somehow I was disappointed because I had information that more than 220 people registered for the event. However, onContinueContinue reading “Presented at Azure Boot camp: Pune 9th April 2011”

Getting Started with Azure AppFabric Service Bus: Creating Namespace

Before we can begin working with AppFabric Service Bus, we need 1. Service Bus Account 2. Namespace in Service Bus Project In this post, we will walkthrough on creating a new Namespace in Service Bus project. 1. Very first we need to login to Azure portal. 2. After successful login from left tab selcet ServiceContinueContinue reading “Getting Started with Azure AppFabric Service Bus: Creating Namespace”

Adding and Deleting SQL Azure firewall rules programmatically

In this post we will add and delete firewall rules associated with Database server in SQL Azure programmatically. Read part 1 of this post here. In part 1, we fetched SQL Azure firewall rules programmatically. In this post I am going to add two functions in existing Firewall class. 1. Adding function to add firewallContinueContinue reading “Adding and Deleting SQL Azure firewall rules programmatically”