A look on Database [SQL Azure] option of new Windows Azure portal

Windows Azure Development portal has been moved to new Silverlight based portal. It has all new look and many new features. SQL Azure can be explored by selecting Database option from the left panel. New SQL Azure portal is having very nice Silverlight based user interactive UI and many more operations can be performed throughContinueContinue reading “A look on Database [SQL Azure] option of new Windows Azure portal”

Windows Azure for Developers Task 10: Creating Storage Account in new Silverlight based Windows Azure Portal

1. Login to Windows Azure Development portal. 2. After login at left panel you can see number of storage and service account in your subscription. 3. Select subscription and storage account option to create new Storage Account. At top left, you will get New Storage Account option. To create new storage account click on newContinueContinue reading “Windows Azure for Developers Task 10: Creating Storage Account in new Silverlight based Windows Azure Portal”

Windows Azure for Developers Task 9: Hosting WCF Service Role in Windows Azure Hosted Service

In Previous Article We saw How to work with WCF Service Web Role I am going to extend previous article to publish in hosted service. Hosting WCF Service Role in hosted service is exactly the same as we host  ASP.Net Web Role. 1. Login to Azure Development portal. 2. Create a new hosted service. IfContinueContinue reading “Windows Azure for Developers Task 9: Hosting WCF Service Role in Windows Azure Hosted Service”

Windows Azure for Developers Task 8: Working with WCF Service Web Role

WCF Service Role enables us to create WCF service and host in Windows Azure. In this article, we will create a WCF Service Role and host on local development fabric and consume in a console application. In second part of this article we will move WCF Service to Azure portal.   To start with, 1.ContinueContinue reading “Windows Azure for Developers Task 8: Working with WCF Service Web Role”

Windows Azure for Developers Task 7: Creating Hosted Service in new Silverlight based Windows Azure Portal

Windows Azure Development portal is in new look now.  It is Silverlight based and all operation can be performed from one page. New portal is having Ribbon at top, left panel and right panel. From configuring guest Operating system to stopping or restarting service can be performed from one page using new portal. In thisContinueContinue reading “Windows Azure for Developers Task 7: Creating Hosted Service in new Silverlight based Windows Azure Portal”

Windows Azure for Developers Task 6: Hosting ASP.Net Application in New Silverlight based Azure Portal

Windows Azure Portal is now all new. It is made in Silverlight. Almost all information is on one page and almost all operation can be performed from same page. Properties Windows for Deployment, Role Instances, and Hosting Service provide extensive operation. Configuring OS to SWAP VIP can be performed from top ribbon controls. Left panelContinueContinue reading “Windows Azure for Developers Task 6: Hosting ASP.Net Application in New Silverlight based Azure Portal”

Windows Azure For Developers Task 5: Configuring Virtual Machine sizes

What is specifying Virtual Machine Size? We can specify the size of virtual machine on which Role will be deployed. Size of VM defines 1. CPU core 2. Memory capacity 3. Local file system We can specify Virtual Machine size for the Role. There are two way to specify the VM size 1. Through ServiceContinueContinue reading “Windows Azure For Developers Task 5: Configuring Virtual Machine sizes”

Windows Azure for developers Task4: Error Attaching the debugger in Windows Azure SDK 1.3

I installed Windows Azure SDL V 1.3 . I tried to create a Hello World Azure Application. I pressed F5 and error I got as below , I tried Ctrl+F5 ; running without debugger and did not get above exception but got service unavailable error in the browser On this particular exception a very goodContinueContinue reading “Windows Azure for developers Task4: Error Attaching the debugger in Windows Azure SDK 1.3”

WCF Data Service with SQL Azure

In this article we will expose database from cloud or SQL Azure as WCF Data Service. There two steps mainly involved in this 1. Creating local Database and migrating to SQL Azure 2. Exposing SQL Azure Database as WCF DATA Service Step1: Creating local Database and migrating to SQL Azure Creating Database The first stepContinueContinue reading “WCF Data Service with SQL Azure”