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Taking a IIS pre-generated web service and putting into Azure
I had, what I thought, was a simple job to do; but it took over two weeks of discovery to find out it actually was easy, but not quite in the way I was planning to do it. I had two web services that I...
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CentOS 6 Azure VM Disk errors
Just a quick post about getting I/O and disk errors on a CentOS 6 VM running in Azure. I created said VM, did a yum update and then rebooted the VM, Once it was back up I then started to get lots of...
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Windows Azure, Service Bus Queue between Webrole and Worker role
In a previous post I showed Azure Storage Queues being used to send messages between a Webrole and a Worker role. I’ve got back onto this project to learn more about MCV 4 and Windows Azure Service Bus...
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Parsing the HTTPResponse from the Azure Management API
Ok, after that last example I ended up pulling what hair I had left in my head out trying to parse the XML that got returned. I have come across this problem before but my memory being what it is I had...
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I feel a project coming together
As a way of trying to put all the stuff that I am learning together. I’ve come up with a project. I have been attempting to write a game for ages and have decided to make it using all the new Microsoft...
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Decisions Decisions – Solution Structure and how to get things done
I spent most of this weekend, researching different ways to achieve my project. There are certain things that I know I want to do: Adopt a Three Tier Approach. Multiple Clients (Including a Website) A...
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Multiple Database Context Mess and Intercepting writes on a WCF Data Service
Hi, Another weekend on hacking code to get the Tyrannt project off the ground. Again I am concentrating on the middle OData web service tier. One of the rules I set myself was to not allow this tier to...
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Plumbing in Place
Spent last weekend and some of the start of my Xmas holiday trying to finalise the plumbing between my three tiers. There are now two types of services in the middle tier. OData read-only service. This...
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A VB.net Example showing how to create a time limited URL to access an Azure...
I needed to set up a quick download service for a file stored in Azure Blob Storage. As all examples for this were in C# I thought I’d post a VB.net example for anyone that needed it. The code is...
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Connecting an Azure Web Role to an existing Virtual Network connected to...
I’ve just been trying to deploy an Azure web role so that it would be available on our company WAN. This is easy for a VM as you just need to specify the Virtual Network when you create the VM. But for...
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