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How you can store decimal data in Windows Azure Table Storage?
At this point Windows Azure Table Storage does not support natively storing decimal point data as...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/16/2011
7 Steps will help you to write or migrate your application to Windows Azure
When you decide to write a new Web Application to host on Windows Azure or decided to migrated to...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/15/2011
Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure CTP Availability
Today Microsoft officially announce the release of Apache Hadoop Services for Windows Azure in...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/14/2011
MATLAB and Windows Azure
There are couple of things you could do while planning to run MATLAB on Windows Azure. Here i will...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/13/2011
Windows Azure SDK for Node.js Installation Walkthrough
Learn more about Windows Azure SDK announcement: -...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/12/2011
New Windows Azure Management Portal with updated SDK for Java, MongoDB, Node.js, Solr/Lucene, PHP and many more
New Windows Azure Portal is out with multitude of functionlities and bunch of other things as listed...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/12/2011
Exploring Windows Azure Package contents
As you may know when you finally package the Windows Azure application the final product you get is...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/11/2011
Handling issues with your startup task in Windows Azure Application
If you experience your Windows Azure application based startup task or OnStart code does not work...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/11/2011
Windows Azure Table Storage- Partition or Row key length is limited to 256 characters in Storage Emulator
If partition/row key is longer than 256 characters, you will get an error when inserting the data in...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/10/2011
Configuring Remote Desktop settings in Windows Azure Portal cause role status to change, why?
You may have seen that enabling remote access from Windows Azure management portal, you roles...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/07/2011
How does Remote Desktop works in Windows Azure?
As you may have known that when you create any of kind of role in your Windows Azure application...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/06/2011
Installing Windows Azure SDK 1.5 returns - DSInit setup error
When trying installing Windows Azure SDK 1.6 in your machine, it is possible you might hit an error...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/05/2011
Using CSPACK to create Windows Azure Package returns error “Error CloudServices050 : Top-level XML element does not conform to schema”
I was investigating an issue in which using CSPACK to create Windows Azure Package (*.cspkg)...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/02/2011
Windows Azure Cloud Services: How you can choose what is needed and how much it will cost?
This article is written to help everyone who either have an idea or concept and looking cloud...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 12/01/2011
How your web site binding works when Windows Azure webrole runs in Compute Emulator?
When you run your web role (ASP.NET Web site) in compute emulator (development fabric), you will see...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/30/2011
How the size of an entity is caclulated in Windows Azure table storage?
While working with a partner, I had an opportunity to dig about how Azure Table storage size is...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/30/2011
Silverlight front end calling to WCF Service, all in one Windows Azure Web Role Sample
I was asked recently to provide a sample which has Windows Azure Web Role with Silverlight front...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/29/2011
Windows Azure Queue can have 64KB message content and how 64KB content is calculated?
Windows Azure Queue can have a message content size up to 64KB per message. This updated was...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/28/2011
Windows Azure instance uptime and instance re-initialization
Windows Azure virtual machines goes at least once a month for guest OS update and similarly Host OS...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/27/2011
Windows Azure Cloud Drive and Snapshots limit
A recent question was raised about Windows Azure Cloud drive and snapshots limit so hear is the...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/26/2011
Troubleshooting details: Windows Azure Web Role was stuck due to an expception in IISConfigurator.exe process
Recently I was working with a partner problem in which the Azure web role was stuck and showing...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/23/2011
Can you programmatically enable CDN within your Windows Azure Storage Account?
I was recently asked if there is an API which can enable CDN for a Windows Azure storage account...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/23/2011
Azure Diagnostics generate exception in SystemEventsListener::LoadXmlString when reading event log which includes exception as event data
When you write Windows Azure application, you may wish you include you own error or notifications in...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/22/2011
Resources to run Open Source Stacks on Windows Azure
Java Windows Azure SDK for Java https://www.windowsazure4j.org/ Installing Windows Azure SDK for Java...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/21/2011
Windows Azure Libraries for .NET 1.6 (Where is Windows Azure App Fabric SDK?)
After the release of latest Windows Azure SDK 1.6, you may have wonder where is Windows Azure...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/20/2011
What to do when your code could not find the certificate in Azure VM?
In an Windows Azure application when both client and service are running in two different Windows...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/19/2011
How to perform clean logout from your application which use Azure ACS & Identity Providers
If you are using Windows Azure AppFabric ACS to use Identity Providers (i.e. Google, Yahoo,...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/18/2011
WCF REST (HTTP) application connecting Azure Service Bus using webHttpRelayBinding causes aspNetCompatibilityEnabled error
If you have a WCF application which is connecting to Windows Azure Service Bus over REST using...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/17/2011
Multiple domains with HTTP and HTTPS endpoint and UCC SSL Certificate in Windows Azure Web Role
In Windows Azure you can create multiple website running within a single web role. For each site you...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/15/2011
Windows Azure Training Kit November 2011 Update is available to download now!!
The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/14/2011
Windows Azure SDK 1.6 (Build 1.6.41103.1601) installation Walkthrough
Windows Azure SDK 1.6 is out now and you can install it directly from Web (Web Platform Installer...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/14/2011
Windows Azure SDK 1.6 is released!!
Windows Azure SDK 1.6 is out today and you can install it directly from Web (Web Platform Installer...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/14/2011
Windows Azure Load Balancer Timeout Details
[Added new info - 05/31/2012] Around April-May 2012 time frame Windows Azure migrated to use...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/12/2011
Test your App Fabric ACS v2 RPS Application to use actual REALM and Return URL in Cloud and localhost URL in Compute Emulator
Today while I was testing my web role which includes Google Identity Provider with Windows Azure...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/11/2011
Using Windows Azure Cmdlets to Delete old Windows Azure Diagnostics log from Windows Azure Storage
Windows Azure Power Shell Cmdlets 2.0 was released last month. You can download the latest version...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/10/2011
How to access Service Configuration settings in Windows Azure Startup Task
In this example I will show you how you can access Service Configuration settings in Windows Azure...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/09/2011
Windows Azure Application Error - TCP error code 10061 No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:808
When just running or debugging your Windows Azure application in Compute Emulator, you might hit the...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/08/2011
Developing ASP.NET MVC4 based Windows Azure Web Role
In this article we will learn how to create a Windows Azure Web Role based application using ASP.NET...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/08/2011
Windows Azure Drive Snapshot and Updating Azure Drive
What is Snapshotting an Azure Drive: Snapshotting is a quick and efficient way to perform a backup...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/07/2011
Windows Azure Package Deployment Error - The remote server returned an error: (407) Proxy Authentication Required
When publishing your Windows Azure web role inside your corporate proxy server you might hit the...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/04/2011
How to read Windows Azure Application Endpont IP Address and Port values in the Startup Task
In the following example I have a startup task Startup.cmd which launch another batch file...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/03/2011
Windows Azure SDK Error when launching compute emulator - Encountered an unexpected error Illegal characters in path
What if you launch Windows Azure Computer Emulator in your Windows machines and return the following...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/02/2011
Everything you need to start with Windows Azure based Microsoft Codename "Social Analytics"
Microsoft Codename "Social Analytics" is a suite of Azure services for developers and end-users...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/01/2011
My Experiment with Wolfram|Alpha Facts Windows Azure DataMarket to check world population
As you may know that Wolfram|Alpha Facts database is accessible directly from web...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 11/01/2011
Communication between Windows Azure Roles
When building Windows Azure application you may have a collection of multiple web & worker role...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 10/30/2011
How to upgrade only one specific role from your Windows Azure Application
If you have more than one role in your Windows Azure application, and you decide to update only one...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 10/28/2011
Whats new in Windows Azure SDK 1.5 - Packages are no longer encrypted
In Windows Azure SDK 1.5 the packages are no longer encrypted since they are always transferred...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 10/27/2011
Windows Azure AppFabric ServiceBus Relay Load Balancing (Scale & Availability Feature)
As of today, Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Relay Service capabilities includes include load...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 10/27/2011
Windows HPC with Windows Azure burst training kit version 1.6
Windows HPC Server with Burst to Azure is ideal for compute intensive applications that demand 1000s...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 10/26/2011
Reading configuration entries using System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager class in a Windows Azure Application
With Windows Azure application you can use ServiceConfiguration.cscfg to include any item-value pair...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 10/25/2011