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At the DreamForce 2010 event in San Francisco Force.com unveiled their next big thing in the Fat SaaS portfolio "Database.com". I am still wondering how would they would've shelled out for that domain name.
Confession time – It wasn’t too intuitive to learn “using” a RESTful service first time I was confronted with it. The idea of the latest and greatest (well not so latest) to do Web Services was nice but after the initial infatuation days were over and it was time to actually work with it, things started getting interesting. The first ever RESTful service I had to use was the Windows Azure Storage REST API. It was early 2009 and the documentation and support was as scarce as things get. The communities ......
The Extreme computing group has released a fairly comprehensive set of benchmarks for almost all aspects of WA. They have also provided the source code to alleviate all doubts that may surface with the MSFT logo lurking around the top right of their homepage :) (Which also resides at a cloudapp.net url). The code is simple and the tests comprehensive enough to hold as data points for customer interactions. Add to it the clean no nonsense Silverlight charts to render the benchmarks and you are set ......
LinqPad as we all know has been a wonderful tool for running ad-hoc queries. With Windows Azure Table storage in picture LinqPad was no longer in picture and we shifted focus to Cloud Storage Studio only to realize the limited and strange querying capabilities of CSS. With some tweaking to Linqpad we can get the comfortable old shoe of ad-hoc queries with LinqPad in the Windows Azure Table storage. Steps: 1. Start LinqPad 2. Right Click in the query window and select “Query Properties” 3. In The ......
Last time we saw some interesting initialization constructs possible with LINQ. Hope some of you have tried it out. If not, it’s never too late. LinqPad is a good friend in need. This time around we’d take a look at two common looping scenarios. 1. Looking up an object by name: Object lookup is commonplace while dealing with collections. Let’s look for an object with a given name. Previously we’d run a for each and come up with something like. public MyObject FindByName(string value) { foreach (MyObject ......
Context: My Windows Azure account is inaccessible since last morning (IST), its been 24 Hrs since I raised alarm with the support folks and its yet to be resolved. Rant: Now this is not a freebie account we are talking here, I am a Customer as well as a regular "Consumer". Have bills mounting 300$ +. Surprisingly another free account is there and the storage on that is running fine (Till 31st March). Now what have us poor paying folks done to receive such treatment? What about the SLA? I am being ......
Joannes Vermorel of Lokad Forecasting is a Azure early adopter and a sincere patron ever since I've been lurking around the Azure forums. Always ready to help and come with innovative ideas to utilize Azure resources. Joannes yesterday has posted a long and very well compiled wish-list for the perfect Azure experience that he envisions. Why is this list important? Lokad in general and Joannes in particular shares my idea of a perfect cloud application. Forecasting requires sudden burst of compute ......
Bugged by the irritating "Path is too long after being fully qualified" error while running in the Development Fabric? The solution is pretty funny and not so obvious unfortunately. The culprit here is not your app, but the Development Fabric. The DevFab accumulates a lot of temporary junk comprising of local storage locations, cached binaries, configuration, diagnostics information and cached compiled web site content files over its lifetime. They are typically stored at C:\Users\<username>\A... ......
The Azure team today released a few goodies. One of them is the OS release 1.1 and the other key release is the Azure Drive. This is brilliant implementation and will pave ways for some new patterns in designing apps for Azure. Here is a summary straigh from the horses mouth. Windows Azure Drive provide Windows Azure applications the ability to use a durable drive to store and access their data using standard Windows NTFS APIs. The following summarizes some high level points to remember when using ......
The Development Fabric has playing Boon or Bane for quite some time with us Azure developers. While the elevated privileges it runs under is still an unresolved issue, with a few things believed to work under the DevFab would inevitably fail in the cloud. While MS is still working on a better DevFab. We have other issues to take care of. Oftentimes we are faced with a dead Development Fabric and would love our code to deal with it. Its time we tamed it. The Windows Azure SDK contains the ServiceHosting ......
Folks, Azure goes out of CTP this 1st of Feb. Remember to make good use of the Azure Introductory Special offers. For the MSDN subscribing crowd its even sweeter. The benefits are listed below. MSDN Subscriber Benefits: Technorati Tags: Windows Azure,Azure account,SQL Azure,Appfabric Windows Azure Platform offer Introductory MSDN Premium offer Ongoing MSDN Subscription Benefits Windows Azure Compute hours per month 750 hours 250 100 50 Storage 10 GB 7.5 GB 5 GB 3 GB Transactions per month 1,000,000 ......
The Windows Azure team announced availability of the November 2009 CTP of Windows Azure along with new Tooling for Visual studio and an improved Development Fabric as well as samples. The official announcement is given below, straight from the horses’ mouth. Today we released several new features for Windows Azure through the Windows Azure Tools and SDK. This release adds support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and VWD Express 2010 Beta 2. What’s New · Service Model UI:A redesigned and significantly ......
Had created this blog long back but could not due to time constraints. Now that our first Windows Zure app is alive and kicking its time for some REST . The Azure November CTP was announced last weekend and I thought it to be an auspicious enough time to start posting. I am Sarang Kulkarni, work for one of the biggest Microsoft shops in the market today, have been around for 8 years now. And been coding .Net for food for the past 4 years ......