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This article offers practical guidance for developers working with the brokered messaging .NET managed API in the Windows Azure Service Bus. The recommendations supplied in this article come directly from recent customer projects. While building real-world solutions with the Service … More »...

In a previous blog posting here I ran through a typical first blocker when using the code-first feature of Entity Framework (EF) with SQL Azure Federations. That first blocker was understanding the correct procedure to submit the USE FEDERATION statement … More » Blog Post by: James Podgorski

A number of our SQL Azure Federation product evaluation customers have been inquiring about the typical how-to’s for using Entity Framework with this new SQL Azure capability. After providing guidance to a number of these customers it was apparent that … More » Blog Post by: James Podgorski

After a bit of prodding, finally getting around to finishing the blog I’d mentioned *cough* about a year ago, for using a SQL Server table as a source for reference data in a StreamInsight query.  The scenario we’d like to … More » Blog Post by: Mark Simms

This post was republished to AppFabric CAT at 6:29:39 PM 5/26/2011 WINDOWS AZURE SERVICE BUS & CONNECT: COMPARED AND CONTRASTED     Category ; Blog   Late last year I published a blog that compared and contrasted cloud and hybrid … More » Blog Post by: Suren Machiraju

Introduction Some months ago I created a custom WCF protocol channel to transparently inject client-side caching capabilities into an existing WCF-enabled application just changing the its configuration file. Since I posted my first post on this subject I received positive … More » Blog Post...

This blog post demonstrates how Windows Azure developers can leverage the Windows Azure Service Bus to enable asynchronous inter-role communication in cloud-based solutions using Service Bus topics and subscriptions. This post and its associated code sample offer a complete solution, one that enables...

The following blog post demonstrates how Windows Azure developers can leverage the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus to enable asynchronous inter-role communication in cloud-based solutions using Service Bus topics and subscriptions. This post and its associated code sample offer a … More »...

Spikes maybe noticed when working with AppFabric Cache - how to avoid this performance them More » Blog Post by: Jaime Alva Bravo

Spikes maybe noticed when working with AppFabric Cache - how to avoid this performance them More » Blog Post by: Jaime Alva Bravo

This article provides information on working with the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus from the Ruby programming language. This article assumes that you are familiar with Ruby, and have access to the Windows Azure AppFabric labs site (AppFabricLabs.com.) For more … More » Blog Post by:...

This article provides information on working with the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus from the Ruby programming language. This article assumes that you are familiar with Ruby, and have access to the Windows Azure AppFabric labs site (AppFabricLabs.com.) For more … More » Blog Post by:...

Introduction The Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Azure AppFabric that was released in May 2011 introduced Queues and Topics that constitute the foundation of a new cloud-based messaging and integration infrastructure that provides reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe …...

Since Azure requires a heighten level of security, certificates became a key concept. As I was looking into it, I found the management a bit confusing and have seen similar questions popping up in the forums. Hence, the content below … More » Blog Post by: Jaime Alva Bravo

This is another learning from lab I ran for the BizTalk Server 2010 Performance Optimization Guide.  The learning:  unused, extra MessageBoxes (with publishing disabled) that are allowed to stay configured in the BizTalk group (they still show up in the … More » Blog Post by: Tim...

The following blog post is intended to offer a developer-oriented perspective on the implementation of a generics-aware storage layer abstraction for the Windows Azure Queue Service. The problem space addressed by the post is centered on supporting very large messages in Windows Azure queues and overcoming...

In a previous blog post I discussed the undocumented connection quotas of the Azure AppFabric Service Bus and the, often times, unexpected QuotaExceededException. Well, I am happy to inform you that our Service Bus team has listened to your concerns … More » Blog Post by: Keith Bauer

Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 use a default “Power Plan” of “Balanced“.  While this can save on energy and cooling costs by allowing Windows to control a number of motherboard and processor settings for reduced power consumption, it can … More » Blog Post by...

Introduction This posting takes a common scenario for SQL Server 2008 R2 – StreamInsight applications. Low volume event, such as alarm data, are correlated into meaningful results and stored into a SQL Server database for post analysis and reporting. In … More » Blog Post by: James Podgorski

Introduction This blog posting is an addendum to a previous posting in which various transient fault detection principles were applied with Entity Framework LINQ queries performing read operations against a SQL Azure backend database. A number of customers have been … More » Blog Post by:...

At Microsoft teched 2011 the SQL Azure Database Federations feature was announced and that the product evaluation program was now open for nominations. You can read more about the program here. In this blog I wanted to touch on a … More » Blog Post by: James Podgorski

Introduction Recently I had chance to work with a health care company that makes an extensive use of the BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 for processing a large amount of messages containing clinical and administrative information. Health care companies need a … More » Blog Post by: Paolo Salvatori

Introduction This blog concludes a small series of posts in which we looked at the feasibility of compressing and encrypting CLR objects before placing them into Azure AppFabric Cache. In those previous posts (found here and here), a small data … More » Blog Post by: James Podgorski

  Introduction This blog follows the previous post in which we looked at a scheme to compress data before it is added to Windows Azure AppFabric Cache. In that blog we observed some interesting results that gave credence to notion … More » Blog Post by: James Podgorski