Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure. Authors: Scott Klein and Herve RoggeroPublisher: Apress, 2012Pages: 290ISBN: 978-1430243953Aimed at: Developers wanting to work with Azure SQL databaseRating: 4.5Reviewed by: Kay Ewbank Writing a good app that uses a database is hard enough; doing the same thing in the cloud adds even more complexity and things to go wrong.
Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure is a good guide to making the move from Microsoft SQL Server to the SQL database that Microsoft makes available on its cloud platform. The book opens with an introduction to cloud computing in general and Azure in particular, working through setting up your Azure account, creating an instance, configuring the firewall, and the other steps necessary to get you up and running. This type of material is normally a waste of space, but the combination of database and cloud makes it worth including. There’s a good little section on what you don’t get in an Azure SQL database, and other limitations. SQL Database Migration Wizard v3.9.12 & v4.0.15 - Home. Development Considerations for Windows Azure Cloud Services.
Authors: Selcin Turkarslan Reviewers: Tim Wieman, Valery Mizonov, Avilay Parekh, Paolo Salvatori, Steve Howard Before migrating your applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services, we recommend that you first review the details of the service.
The article, "Introducing Azure" provides information on: Windows Azure Design Patterns - Architecture & Stuff. One of the challenges in adopting a new platform is finding usable design patterns that work for developing effective solutions.
The Catch-22 is that design patterns are discovered and not invented. Nevertheless it is important to have some guidance on what design patterns make sense early in the game. Most presentations about Windows Azure start by presenting you with a bewildering set of features offered by Windows Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric and SQL Azure. Although these groupings of features may have been developed by different groups within Microsoft and spliced together, as architects we are more interested in solving business problems that can be solved by utilizing these features where they are appropriate I recently did a Webcast that took another more solution-centric approach.
In the webcast you will learn about the components of the Windows Azure Platform that can be used to solve specific business problems. The recording can be downloaded from here. Bill.
Episode 69 - SQL Azure Federations with George Huey. Windows Azure platform – Tools and Utilities « Laxmikant Patil. I was looking for tools available on Windows Azure Platform, thought to share with you all.
Certainly this is not the complete list available out there but I found these are useful to start with. My next post will cover few more tools - 5 Ways to Use Microsoft Azure to Ease Cloud Migration. Introduction Developers are rapidly adopting Microsoft Windows Azure as their cloud.
Because it is based on Windows and .NET, it presents a high degree of compatibility with their existing applications, making it easy to move an application to the cloud. There are two key phases that an application usually goes through as it is moved to the cloud. The first is changing as little as possible so that it works as-is in Microsoft Azure, just changing what HAS to be changed to make it work. The second phase is to then upgrade elements of the application to take advantage of some of the unique capabilities Microsoft Azure has to offer.
Session states. Overview of Building an Application that Runs in a Hosted Service. Troubleshooting Hosted Service Deployment States in Windows Azure. Updated: January 13, 2014 This section lists some of the common causes of deployment problems, and offers troubleshooting tips to help you resolve the problems.
An indication that a problem exists with an application is when the role instance fails to start, or it cycles between the initializing, busy, and stopping states. If a role in your application relies on any assembly that is not part of the .NET Framework or the Windows Azure managed library, you must explicitly include that assembly in the application package. Keep in mind that other Microsoft frameworks are not available on Windows Azure by default. If your role relies on such a framework, you must add those assemblies to the application package. Before you build and package your application, verify the following: The Copy Local property is set to True for each referenced assembly in your project that is not part of the Windows Azure SDK or the .NET Framework, if you are using Visual Studio.
Storage. Roles. Get Started Building Data Driven Apps with Windows Azure and SQL Azure-Rachel Appel on Software Development. This post is part of a series called “Windows Azure for the ASP.NET Developer”, so if you've been considering migrating your ASP.NET Web Forms or MVC app to Windows Azure or SQL Azure, take some time to review the posts in this series.
Here you will find answers to questions like "Why Move My ASP.NET Development To The Cloud? " and "What Are The Differences Between Windows Azure & Windows Server? " that frequently arise. ASP.NET Business applications are most often forms-over-data that provide basic CRUD operations plus business logic. For those looking to port CRUD apps, you can move your code, the data, or both, over the Windows Azure platform.