When browsing to a WCF endpoint hosted in an Azure web role you normally get back a web page for the service showing the location of the individual node / web role that is serving up your request (seen blurred out here) instead of the actual endpoint.
This isn’t great as you don’t want everyone knowing [...]

I have recently been asked a number of questions both internally and from customers about when you will be billed for Azure usage.
As Eric Nelson’s recent post describes, if you suspend a service you will still be paying this is due to the fact you will still have your application deployed on the server ready [...]

Memcached is a distributed cache used to help speeding up large scale web applications by taking pressure off the database. Memcached is used by many of the internets biggest sites, including Twitter, Wikipedia, and YouTube to name just a few.
A distributed cache is one of the things that I’ve been hoping to see released for [...]

Registration for Developer Developer Developer 2010 will open later today at 13:00, but you better be quick to sign up as last years tickets were snapped up in a few hours.
This year boasts some of the best sessions that I have seen in a while with proposed (corrected by @plip) presentations on a wide range [...]

Now I can see why some people have been raving about Google’s Chrome browser, it not only serves up the internet … it can teleport goats!!
Want to transport some Goats Yourself?
Follow these easy repro steps:
0. Download and launch Google Chrome 1. Shift + Esc 2. Right click [...]

In a previous post I mentioned using the Service Management API sample library to call out to the Azure fabric from within a C# application.
The natural progression from here was to get the code working from within a web or worker role instance hosted within the cloud. Using a web role, I used the OnStart [...]

One things I am constantly falling into the trap of doing is naming my message queues using camel casing when naming my queues giving names such as “mySuperQueue” which ends up throwing the below error. Which because it gives us very little information tends to lead to me debugging the code for a while before [...]

I previously published an article showing how the Service Management API and the csmanage tool could be used to aid in the deployment of your Windows Azure application as part of your daily build.
Once I had began playing with the API’s, I wanted to be able to use them within an application so that I [...]

This afternoon I noticed that I was able to select Europe and Asia regions to deploy my Azure application.
I have yet to see official word of these locations being available, but this must be for the move from CTP to production.

Bad news guys … I am unable to present at the upcoming NxtGen Oxford. I have just started a new and exciting project up in Leeds and therefore will be unable to get back down to Oxford in time for presentation. It does mean I will have even more content for my presentation when I [...]