Windows Azure provides us the ability to scale our application up by specifying how many CPU cores we want in our service instances, or to scale out by specifying how many single-core instances we require. Both strategies can be used to accomplish our Read More...

Be aware that installing the November 2010 Windows Azure SDK v1.3 will break support for cloud projects running under Visual Studio 2008. To the best of my knowledge this was not widely announced (in fact, I learned about this fact during installation Read More...

The Windows Azure Worker Role is a perfect place to put code that you want to run continuously in the background to process work as it becomes available. The information presented here would also be useful in web roles as well. If you’re writing cloud Read More...