The Transient Fault Handling Framework provides a set of reusable components for adding intelligent retry logic into applications leveraging SQL Azure, Windows Azure storage and AppFabric Service Bus. It enables enhancing existing applications with support for retry-aware scopes that greatly improve reliability and reduce the … More » Blog Post by: Valery Mizonov

Today I did a fun presentation at the Engineering World Conference in the Netherlands on using the Windows Phone 7 with a Workflow Service hosted on Windows Azure. The sample application, that is complete with all source on CodePlex over here , consists of an expense app on the phone and an ASP.NET MVC site hosting the workflow service. The PowerPoint presentation can be found here . It was a fun session on a fun event   www.TheProblemSolver.nl www.dotnetevents.nl Blog Post by: Maurice

The next update to the Windows Azure AppFabric LABS environment is scheduled for February 9, 2011 (Wednesday). Users will have NO access to the AppFabric LABS portal and services during the scheduled maintenance down time. When: START: February 9, 2011, 10 am PST END: February 9, 2011, 6 pm PST Impact Alert: The AppFabric LABS environment (Service Bus, Access Control, Caching, and portal) will be unavailable during this period. Additional impacts are described below. Action Required: Cache SDK and...

The following blog post summarizes some of my personal key learnings from a recent customer project where I have successfully been able to leverage Enterprise Library 5.0 (EntLib) on the Windows Azure platform and take advantage of several capabilities provided … More » Blog Post by: Valery Mizonov

Facebook has a half-billion users. You have an idea and want to make it available to those users. Problem is, what if it turns out your idea is good, goes viral, and the hordes come beating on your doors to get in? The article below from Internet.com is about a great success story using Windows Azure with Facebook, and an SDK that’s available to get you jump started. In addition, a forthcoming version of the Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) supports Facebook connect (this is available...