Cesar de la Torre
Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.
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How to solve “SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfigurationSetting can be used” After Moving to Windows Azure SDK 1.3
A quick reminder: After Windows Azure SDK 1.3, we now use full IIS instead HWC (Hosted Web Core). Using IIS we can have several WebSites per WebRole, so now the internal architecture and processes are different, this is why we have to change the we we use the API regarding Windows Azure configuration settings. Basically, in case you’re using ASP.NET, we need to add the following code to our Global.asax Global.asax in ASP.NET protected void Application_Start() { &...
Web Farm Framework 2.0 for IIS
This is a very interesting stuff for managing scalable web farms based on your own IIS servers, in a better way . The Microsoft Web Farm Framework is a free, fully supported, Microsoft product that enables you to easily provision and mange a farm of web servers. It enables you to automate the installation and configuration of platform components across the server farm, and enables you to automatically synchronize and deploy ASP.NET applications across them. It supports integration with load balancers, and enables you to automate updates across your servers so that your site/application is never down or un...
How to fix: Error when deploying Windows Azure App on WA SDK V1.3 – The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state.
You might get this error (The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state.) if your Solution is working under any Source Control manager, like TFS, etc… Not joking… This is the whole exception: You might also see this error in the OutPut Window in VS.2010: The program '[8880] WaIISHost.exe: Managed (v4.0.30319)' has exited with code -532462766 (0xe0434352). This is a known issue with Windows Azure SDK 1.3 when upgrading from Windows Azure SDK 1.2 to 1.3. (It should be fixed in next WA Emulator versio...
Using Multiple Administrators WLID on a Windows Azure Subscription
Just a useful tip: When managing your Windows Azure subscriptions it is advantageous to have multiple service administrators manage the Hosted Services, Storage Accounts and CDN on a subscription. When a subscription is purchased through the Microsoft Online Services Portal, the service administrator specified during the subscription process is the default, and only, person who can manage the services on the subscription. Then, if you want to add more Administration accounts, the process is the following: To assign service co-administrators to a subscription, the default service administrator must sign in to the ...
Handling SQL Azure Connections issues using Entity Framework 4.0
The underlying platform within SQL Azure consists of many instances of SQL Server, each of which is managed by the SQL Azure fabric. The SQL Azure fabric is a distributed computing system composed of tightly integrated networks, servers, and storage. It enables automatic failover, load balancing, and automatic replication between physical servers. Troubleshooting Connection-loss Errors When you start using SQL Azure, you won't notice anything different when accessing your database, but connection-loss is not uncommon when databases encounter resource shortages. A unique feature of SQL Azure i...
Just released V1.0 of our DDD NLayered Architecture Guide/Book and Sample-App (Free eBook)
[UPDATED - April 2017] - IMPORTANT: For up-to-date architecture and development guidance using .NET (i.e. .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Docker containers, etc.) including Domain-Driven Design patterns, microservices architectures and other .NET related technologies like Xamarin for mobile apps check this landing page pointing to multiple NEW guides and reference applications: https://www.microsoft.com/net/architecture/ Specifically, most of the DDD (Domain-Driven Design) patterns explained in the guidance written in 2010/2011 are still valid nowadays, however all the technologies have evolved significantly. Also, m...
The future of Silverlight! See SILVERLIGHT FIRESTARTER on Dec. 2nd!!
There was quite a lot of buzz after PDC talking about HTML5 vs. Silverlight and wondering what will be Silverlight’s future. Well, here we have it. There’s gonna be a single event just for that, to have it clear. I strongly believe that Silverlight is here to stay. It is much more powerful than HTML5 (from UX design and also from a development point of view) and even though HTML5 will be great for ‘reach’, I mean ‘anything in the Internet’ in any device, talking about LOB apps (Line Of Business Apps), RIA apps and even Windows Apps (Silverlight Out of Browser), Silverlight is the best choice. It is not just f...
Summary of New ‘Windows Azure Platform’ features announced at PDC10 Oct. 28th-29th 2010
So, great news at PDC10!. Here I make a summary about new features per Windows Azure Platform pillar (Windows Azure, SQL Azure, AppFabric): Windows Azure SQL Azure Windows Azure App Fabric Other WA related new features A lot of stuff to see!! :-)
Follow PDC10 on-line!!
This is going to be the first time where anybody will be able to follow the whole PDC (all sessions) on-line!. Follow PDC on-line from this URL: http://player.microsoftpdc.com/session?refid=73401 Also, here you can see about this new PDC on-line experience: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/PDC10-and-the-new-Online-Experience