Cloudy in Seattle
For those of you that will be attending PDC, I wanted to let you know about a session I’ll be doing...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/10/2009
In case you missed this on the Windows Azure blog, there were a couple of neat announcements around...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/06/2009
One of the things I’ve been playing with lately is SQL Azure. I’ll post about my experience using...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/02/2009
Here’s a fun little thing I found out about recently. Suppose, I have a Cloud Service that I’m...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/27/2009
In case you didn't see this on Ryan Dunn's blog, we just released some neat Powershell cmdlets that...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/27/2009
Recently, I updated a somewhat out of context (for this blog) post titled "Windows Azure Tools and...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/26/2009
Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/18/2009
Today, the IIS team released a the Web Platform Installer 2.0 RTW. Among the many cool new...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 09/24/2009
Today, the WCF team released a patch that will help you if your are using WCF on Windows Azure....
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 09/23/2009
In the July 2009 CTP of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio, we introduced a bug...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 08/17/2009
After you install the July 2009 CTP and create a new project via File | New Project | Cloud Service,...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 07/20/2009
I’m pleased to announce that we have released a new version of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK!...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 07/20/2009
Many of you may not even know this, but as part of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 07/11/2009
[Update, voting for US entries has now concluded - opening for the international winner will open...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 06/22/2009
Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (includes SDK). If the release is still propagating,...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 05/28/2009
[Update: With the November 2009 release of the Windows Azure Tools - this post is now obsolete - an...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 05/12/2009
Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge! Everything you need to know from a page hosted on...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 05/05/2009
Back at Mix ‘09, we announced that Windows Azure will have support for specifying which geographical...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 04/30/2009
(Update 9/24/2009 -- We're now included in the Web Platform Installer! See:...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 04/20/2009
What is the Service Package? It is what contains the Service Definition for your Cloud Service along...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 04/16/2009
If you are trying a FastCGI application on Windows Azure and see the following message: CCT: Error:...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 04/15/2009
If you weren't able to make it to MIX09, you can catch videos of the sessions. My session is...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/22/2009
Update: We've refreshed the release and this new release resolves these issues. See here for more...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/19/2009
One of the cool new features in the Windows Azure Mix 09 CTP is the ability to run your Web and/or...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/18/2009
New release of the Windows Azure SDK and Tools! From now on, you only have to download the Windows...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/18/2009
[For more recent information on using ASP.NET MVC with Windows Azure please see this post.] ASP.Net...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/08/2009
For those of you who are attending Mix '09, it'd be great if you could come check out my tools talk...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/04/2009
For those of you that have been unfortunate enough to experience the VS crash when using the ASP.Net...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/26/2009
We're really starting to get a solid set of resources out there for Windows Azure developers! Cloud...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/24/2009
Probably a little silly for me to re-blog something that Mary-Jo Foley has posted, but I've had fun...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/24/2009
I've received some comments as well as have been contacted by a couple of customers about an issue...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/15/2009
We recently deployed a new version of the Azure Services Development Portal. For those of you who...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/13/2009
We just released 9 of 40 "How Do I" videos on using the Azure Services Platform - right now the...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/12/2009
The Azure Services Evangelism team just released an update to the Azure Services Training Kit. This...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/06/2009
[For an expanded walkthrough about using an existing ASP.NET Web Application in a Cloud Service and...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/05/2009
When using the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio, there are two times that you end up creating a...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/28/2009
As part of the announcement of the January 2009 CTP of the Windows Azure Tools was "Added support to...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/16/2009
Albert Pascual just posted an interesting article on his experience using Windows Azure. A...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/17/2008
In the PDC '08 release of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio, when you create a new...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/10/2008
azurejournal just posted an article, Porsche, Live Mesh and Windows Azure which touches on a cool...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/05/2008
I've updated the walkthrough I wrote on Deploying a Cloud Service on MSDN based on some feedback....
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/05/2008
A coworker of mine, Steve Marx, recently posted about creating tables only once due to the...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/03/2008
Update: This has been fixed in the January 2009 CTP of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/14/2008
Right on the heels of my post on how to use the CloudDrive sample to access the logs for your...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/12/2008
On Windows Azure, you can output trace messages when your Roles are running "in the cloud". You...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/12/2008
[For more recent information on using ASP.NET MVC with Windows Azure please see this post.] Before...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/10/2008
A question that I got at PDC was whether or not you could read an XML file contained in your Web...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/07/2008
There are two things that I want to show in this post: That you can use Silverlight in a Windows...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/05/2008