Archives
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Sending and Receiving Messages in Windows Azure Storage Queue with JavaScript Serializer
In this blog post, I will demonstrate sample code for sending and receiving messages in Windows Azure Storage Queue with JavaScript Serializer for serializing and de-serializing messages. We are adding a custom type to Windows Azure Queue where we are using JavaScriptSerializer Class provided by System.Web.Script.Serialization namespace, for the serialization.
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Slides and Code from My Global Windows Azure Bootcamp Presentation
I did a presentation on Windows Azure Cloud Services at Global Windows Azure Bootcamp in Kochi, India. The title of the session was “Windows Azure Cloud Services – Web Roles and Worker Roles”. In this session, I have demonstrated how to building multi-tier Windows Azure Cloud Services application using with Web Role, Worker Role, Table Storage and Service Bus Queue. You can download the source code from my github repository https://github.com/shijuvar/AzureCloudServices. The code walkthrough demonstrated in the blog post Building Windows Azure Cloud Services App with Web Role, Worker Role, Table Storage and Service Bus. The slides used for the talk can download from here.
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Global Windows Azure Bootcamp in Kochi, Kerala
On April 27, a global Windows Azure bootcamp is organizing across the world. This event is a free, one-day training program for Windows Azure and delivering variety of topics on the Cloud and Windows Azure platform. You can visit the global Windows Azure bootcamp website from here.
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Deploying Windows Azure Cloud Services Apps
In my previous post Building Windows Azure Cloud Services App with Web Role, Worker Role, Table Storage and Service Bus, I have demonstrated how to build a multi-tier cloud application using Windows Azure Cloud Service. In this post, I will demonstrate how to deploy our Cloud Service application on Windows Azure using Visual Studio 2012. You can create a Cloud Service from Visual Studio itself and can deploy the Cloud Service to Windows Azure without using the Windows Azure management portal.
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Building Windows Azure Cloud Services App with Web Role, Worker Role, Table Storage and Service Bus
Windows Azure Cloud Services, provides a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for building multi-tier, highly scalable, reliable cloud applications on the Windows Azure Cloud platform. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to build a multi-tier Windows Azure Cloud Services application using with Web Role, Worker Role, Table Storage and Service Bus Queue. This demo application will also demonstrates the usages of Service Bus Queue, Table Storage and how to communicate between the Web Role and Worker Role.
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Using async/await with Windows Azure Service Bus Client SDK
The Windows Azure team has recently released Windows Azure Service Bus 2.0.0-beta which lets the Windows Azure developers to use Task based asynchronous operations while working with Windows Azure Service Bus. Now the Windows Windows Azure Service Bus SDK provides Async version for the Service Bus methods. The SDK will be working with both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012 as the SDK compiled against .Net Framework 4.0.
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Creating and Deploying Windows Azure Web Sites with Microsoft WebMatrix 3
Microsoft WebMatrix is a free, lightweight and cloud-connected web development tool which can be used for building and deploying Windows Azure Web Sites. Microsoft WebMatrix supports ASP.NET, Node.js and PHP. A while ago I have written a post Building and Deploying Windows Azure Web Site with Node.js and MongoDB by using Microsoft WebMatrix, where I have demonstrated how we can develop and deploy Web Sites to Windows Azure. The newly released WebMatrix 3 is an excellent IDE for building and deploying Web Sites to Windows Azure. The WebMatrix 3 lets the developers to create Windows Azure Web Sites from the IDE itself and can easily publish to Windows Azure, without using Windows Azure management portal. You can add Windows Azure accounts to WebMatrix 3 and can easily create and deploy Windows Azure Web Sites using WebMatrix 3. WebMatrix 3 provides better supports for working with Windows Azure and source control integration with Git and TFS. The source control integration is a new feature to WebMatrix.