Tag Archive for .NET

What Happens When an Azure Role Starts?

  Cory Fowler (SyntaxC4) has a good post on Windows Azure Role Startup Life Cycle. Notable aspects of the post include: Synchronous and Asynchronous Startup TaskType and problems to watch for A good, step-by-step diagram of how the Azure Fabric…

Caveat Developer: CSharp-CloudFiles

Rackspace has developed a C# SDK for CloudFiles, which in turn is based on OpenStack Object Storage.  As we’ve used this SDK, csharp-cloudfiles, we’ve encountered some unexpected “issues.”  While we see these issues as flaws, some may consider them to…

BIG Release of Azure Components This Week!

Windows Azure SDK 1.3 (a.k.a., November release) has just been released.  You can download just the SDK, but if you’re using Visual Studio, use the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio instead.  This package, VSCloudService.exe, includes the SDK package. The…