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During my time with Windows Azure development I have been curious to actually time what it takes to deploy my Azure ASP.NET website to Production/Staging environments. Finally during my move to “USA – SouthWest” (required due to the upcoming shutdown of the previous CTP environment) I timed the various steps and here is the info. Production Deployment: Hit “Deploy” button on my package 00:00 – I pressed the “deploy” button once i selected my package files 00:58 – Processed Finished with “Allocated” message, I now had to Run the...
I just got an email from the SQL Azure team (see below) of an upcoming maintenance. This is actually very exciting as it means SQL Azure is going to be one step closer to final deployment. I use SQL Azure right now for the Connected Show website and have really enjoyed the benefits of not having to manage my own SQL Server to store podcast data. I look forward to staying with this solution once SQL Azure goes live! If you have not taken the time to check out SQL Azure and see all the...
I recently started to look at what people are building related to Windows Azure storage management and found some interesting projects on CodePlex. While I am at an early stage of analysis on whether or not these projects work as intended, I have decided to feature some of the more interesting ones below. As always, use them at your own risk! Azure CodePlex Projects Azure Storage Explorer Azure Storage Explorer is a useful GUI tool for inspecting the data in your Azure cloud storage projects including the logs of your cloud-hosted applications. All three types...
The Problem: Cannot installed Azure CTP without SQL Express 2005 or 2008 The other day I tried to install Azure CTP on my machine but during the install got a fatal error: “The SQL Server instance ‘.SQLEXPRESS’ could not be found. Please verify that SQL Express is installed and running” was the message as seen above and it stopped the installer in its tracks. I quickly realized I must have missed a dependency so I looked in the read-me (located in C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.0\RelNotes.htm) file and sure enough here was...