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...
[ Updated 2010-04-25 : The lightweight view for MSDN has been fixed, so the content of this post is no longer relavant] [ Updated 2010-04-07 : Updated one screenshot, because the lightweight view has changed] MSDN has recently switched the default online view mode to “lightweight view”. Although...
I don’t write much for public consumption these days, i.e., this blog has gone really quiet ;) Most of my work is for clients that don’t like it if I blog about that. But I did write an article about cloud computing and Windows Azure for the Dutch TechNet Magazine with my colleague Dennis Mulder. It...
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...
Microsoft released the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio October 2008 CTP, available at the Microsoft Download Center . The Windows Azure Software Development Kit October 2008 CTP is available also at Microsoft's Download Center . Although they have just released the Visual Studio 2010...
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”...