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The Windows Azure diagnostics service runs side-by-side with your role instance and collects diagnostics data as dictated by the configuration. The diagnostics service saves the data to your Windows Azure storage service if it is configured to do so. The diagnostics service can also be communicated with remotely from on-premise apps (a good example of [...]

A major impediment to Windows Azure’s adoption is the lack of tools to assist developers and admins, for example – DBA’s have to jump through hoops to back up a SQL Azure database as there are no backups tools are SQL Azure doesn’t yet have a native backup facility.

SQL Azure is essentially a cut down version of SQL Server and so we would expect that migrating from SQL Server to SQL Azure should be a straightforward task. However, in the first release of SQL Azure, the scripts generated by SQL Server Management Studio will require some extra cleanup since not all the [...]

The Windows Azure Drive enables Windows Azure apps to use existing NTFS APIs for accessing a durable drive.   This can ease the pain in migrating  existing Windows apps to Windows Azure. Using Azure Drive, the app can read or write to a lettered drive letter (e.g., C:\) which represents a durable NTFS volume.  This drive [...]

In a previous tutorial we showed how to create and receive a message from queue , we can now adding polling

This simple tutorial demonstrates how to create a message on a queue and receive that message:

SQL Azure Database Service Update 1 has just gone live with several improvements to SQL Azure. Most importantly it is now possible to programatically move between the 1GB and 10GB SQL Azure editions (previously users were forced to do a migration!). This can be done using the following syntax:

Web cams allow users to view video streaming in a real time or get specific frames upon request. However, the cams can’t store video for a long time due to the resources required for storing video or photo collections. With this in mind, we decided to build the Enterra WebCam Viewer.

Opinions on Azure the likely uptake of Azure appear to be very polarized around the time of its launch. I think it is a given that 2010 will not see a rush to Azure – the inevitable teething issues, plus the unavailability of several key elements of the platf0rm (such as database backup) will be [...]

Reports today suggest that Microsoft will introduce Remote Desktop and Virtual Machine support for Azure in March 2010.