RJ Dudley

Join the Pgh.NET User Group on June 9 as Vijay Koneru gives an overview of programming Silverlight applications using the Azure Cloud Services API. Also, Craig Oaks will provide an introduction to using Silverlight with ArcGIS.

Date:     Tuesday, June 9
Time:     5:30 - 8 p.m.    
Venue:    Microsoft Offices, 30 Isabella Street, 15212

Register: http://webportal.pghtech.org/Events/CalendarEventsListView.aspx

My biddy Shaun's latest ASP Alliance article has been published, and details some of our experiences of working with Azure.

Azure Basics - Say 'Hello' to the Cloud

Shaun shows how to start developing a Windows Azure-based website and shows the steps to deploy that website to the cloud. This is a pretty basic example to help get someone past the basic hurdles of developing for Azure.

Preparing for today's Pittsburgh Code Camp talk was challenge, since we were stringing together a lot of things that are half baked.  On of the issues we had was with log messages (RoleManager.WriteToLog) not appearing in the development fabric UI.  Lindsay had the same problem when she was demoing Azure Services for MSDN Across America a couple weeks ago.

I would see the log messages once, then no messages for subsequent runs.  I finally figured out that if you shut down and exit the Development Fabric UI, then let it restart with the next run, your messages will log.  Unfortunately, you'll need to do this each time you want to examine logged output.