Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

Category: Windows Azure Services

  • Microsoft MSDN Developer Conference Boston 2009 — My Code and Slides

    I spoke at the Microsoft MSDN Developer Conference in Boston yesterday and did the “Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Services” session. Developing and Deploying Your First Cloud Services In this session we will take a tour of the capabilities of the Microsoft cloud platform by building and running a simple service using the platform…

  • Slides from VSLive Dallas 2008: WiX, LINQ to SQL Architecture, Web Testing, Windows Azure

    I spoke at VSLive Dallas 2008 last week.  Here are my slides. Win and Web Installers with WiX code, slides, more  Windows Azure Tour code, slides Architect Applications End-to-End with LINQ to SQL code, slides Visual Studio Team System Web Testing slides, code/discussion -Ben — Want to run one of these talks at your company…

  • Slides and Code from my Windows Azure talk at VSLive Dallas 2008

    I got a call yesterday from Richard Hale Shaw saying that VSLive Dallas 2008 had a last-minute cancellation on a cloud programming talk.  Richard asked me if I could come talk about Windows Azure, I changed my plane ticket, whipped up a talk, and charged on down.  I just came off stage about 30 minutes…

  • Windows Azure @ MSDN Developer Conference, 1/22/2009

    For those of you who didn’t manage to get out to Microsoft PDC 2008 in Los Angeles in October and missed all the Windows Azure content, don’t despair — the MSDN Developer Conference is coming to a city near you.  A nice feature of MSDN DevCon is that you get a lot of the same…

  • Howto: Use Windows Azure Logging During Development and Production to Debug Your Application

    If you’re running your Windows Azure application on your local machine using the Visual Studio Development Fabric, it’s easy to figure out problems by simply putting a breakpoint in your code and using the debugger.  If your app is running in the cloud, using the debugger is impossible.  This is where Azure’s logging features come…

  • Windows Azure WebRole Is Stuck in 'Initializing' Status

    I had some trouble deploying a Windows Azure application that I’d written into the hosted environment yesterday.  I’d uploaded my application package to Staging and got the “Package is deploying…” notification. After it finished deploying and the WebRole’s status was “Allocated“, I hit the “Run” button. The WebRole status went to Initializing and stayed there…

  • Windows Azure Services Sample Code

    In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft announced the Windows Azure Services platform yesterday at PDC.  Azure allows you to write highly scalable applications that run “in the cloud”.  You write the code using standard C# (or VB.NET) and ASP.NET and then Microsoft hosts the running application and the data storage repository for you.  By itself…