The Windows Azure Platform has a rich diagnostics infrastructure to enable logging and performance monitoring in the cloud. When you run a cloud app locally in the DevFabric you can view diagnostics trace output in the console window that is part of the DevFabric UI. For example, say I have the line...
in As you will probably know, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will RTM on April 12, 2010 and will be available for download on MSDN Subscriptions Downloads the same day. The Windows Azure team is committed to making .NET Framework 4 available in Windows Azure within 90 days of the RTM...
I ran into an issue with a Windows Azure project created from scratch in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 with the May CTP of the Windows Azure Tools . When trying to create tables in the local development storage, I got the error “Invalid image format”. This issue occurred both from VS (using the...
Ever since the internal unveiling of Windows Azure as project “ Red Dog ” at our internal TechReady conference in July 2008, I’ve been very interested in this Software+Services platform. Technical strategist Steve Marx from the Windows Azure team recently released a cool sample app called The CIA Pickup...
If you watched the first keynote of PDC08 , either at PDC or through the live stream, you have seen the first public unveiling of Windows Azure . In short, it’s our OS for the cloud. A CTP of the Windows Azure SDK should be available shortly. In the mean time, you can get busy with the “Oslo”...