Azure Coding .NET

When disaster strikes, Windows Azure has your back!

Some O365 subscribers (including yours truly) have had problems sharing their Sharepoint sites and documents after the update. I investigated and solved the problem.

The Office App Store provides another opportunity to tap into the Microsoft ecosystem, delivering apps directly to users of the most used productivity suite .

The Windows Azure Authentication Library was recently announced to provide a simpler API for leveraging Azure Active Directory for Identity Federation and third party authentication.

In the wake of a two hour outage in Microsoft's Western Europe Azure Data Center, Microsoft has provided an explanation of the cause of the outage. This makes the second major outage for the Windows Azure service this year. Each time, Microsoft has provided a detailed account of what went wrong and how they have addressed the issue.

If you've been wondering how Windows Azure Storage offerings stack up against similar options from Amazon, look no further...

Need a way to quickly index and search your documents in the cloud? The Azure Library for Lucene.NET may be just what the doctor ordered.

If you've been considering moving to the cloud, or creating a new SaaS application, now is as good a time as ever to put your plans into action. Microsoft's 30 to Launch contest, which originally ran for Windows Phone 7 developers, is back and this time has a version for those of you who are leveraging the cloud for your application.

One of the attractions of moving to Windows Azure (or any of the major cloud providers for that matter) is the ability to have on-demand scalability. Unfortunately, out of the box, there are no tools to automatically scale the application up and down based on usage or performance on Windows Azure. What's a cloud citizen to do? You either have to monitor your application and manually scale it as it takes a hit, or you have to build your own tools that hook into the Management API to do it for you. Until now that is...