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CTP1 must be uninstalled first!
.Net Framework version 3.5
PowerShell version 1.0
Cluster configuration options
XML based
SQL Server (or SQL CE) based
Set cache cluster/host options
Cluster Name
Cluster Size: small (1-3), medium (4-6), large (7-10)
Cache Host port (default 22233)
Cache Cluster port (if configuring) (default 22234)
Max Server Memory

----- Configuration Notes -----

XML Configuration file or SQL Server
PowerShell is the de-facto configuration tool Desktop icon is created during installation for the PowerShell entrance Keep in mind that any parameter values are case-sensitive Basic help comes from
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Start-CacheCluster
Stop-CacheCluster
Restart-CacheCluster
Get-Cache (shows the current Cache Names available and the regions)
New-Cache (creates a new cache name)
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Get-CacheConfig (shows statistics for the cache node specified)

ASP.NET Podcast Show #136 - Rachel Appel on Dynamic Data

admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:55:00 GMT

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ASP.NET Podcast Show #135 - Development Methodologies as Religion

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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Superbowl, football, Cowboys (you have got to be kidding me).
Refactoring, TDD, and the great religious debates of software systems.
Coaching systems. Great Players make Great Coaches. Systems need to be molded to players. Don't force one size fits all.
Ok, I feel better now.

ASP.NET Podcast Show #134 - General Thoughts on Windows Azure - Audio only

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:00:00 GMT

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general
azure programming
cloud computing providers
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MDC Detroit: http://pentonizer.com/mdcdetroit/ (contest ends January 7, 2009 11:59 pm)

ASP.NET Podcast Show #133 - Windows Azure Table Storage - video

admin — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:01:00 GMT

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CRUD application.
Message.
Message Data Service Context.
This example is taken from Hands On Labs.

Source Code for Default.aspx.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.Services.Client;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using Microsoft.Samples.ServiceHosting.StorageClient;
using Microsoft.ServiceHosting.ServiceRuntime;

namespace TableCloudService_WebRole
{
    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string statusMessage = String.Empty;
            if (!Page.IsPostBack)
            {
                DisplayMessages();
            }
        }

        protected void lbDisplayMessages_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            DisplayMessages();
        }

        protected void OnDeleteMessage(object sender, CommandEventArgs e)
        {
            LinkButton lb = (LinkButton)sender;
            GridViewRow gvr = (GridViewRow)lb.Parent.Parent;

            if (e.CommandName == "Delete")
            {
                string PartitionKey = ((HiddenField)gvr.FindControl("hdPartitionKey")).Value;
                string RowKey = ((HiddenField)gvr.FindControl("hdRowKey")).Value;
                string TimeStamp = ((HiddenField)gvr.FindControl("hdTimeStamp")).Value;
                string Body = ((TextBox)gvr.FindControl("txtBody")).Text;
                string Name = ((TextBox)gvr.FindControl("txtName")).Text;
                MessageDataServiceContext context = GetContext();

                //var m = (from mess in context.Messages
                //         where
                //             (mess.PartitionKey == PartitionKey) &&
                //             (mess.RowKey == RowKey)
                //         select mess).Single();
                var m = new Message();
                m.PartitionKey = PartitionKey;
                m.RowKey = RowKey;
                m.Timestamp = Convert.ToDateTime(TimeStamp);
                context.AttachTo("Messages", m, "*");

                context.DeleteMessage(m);
                RoleManager.WriteToLog("Verbose", "Delete Message.");
                DisplayMessages();
            }
        }
        protected void OnUpdateMessage(Object sender, CommandEventArgs e)
        {
            LinkButton lb = (LinkButton)sender;
            GridViewRow gvr = (GridViewRow)lb.Parent.Parent;

            if (e.CommandName == "Update")
            {
                string PartitionKey = ((HiddenField)gvr.FindControl("hdPartitionKey")).Value;
                string RowKey = ((HiddenField)gvr.FindControl("hdRowKey")).Value; ;
                string TimeStamp = ((HiddenField)gvr.FindControl("hdTimeStamp")).Value; ;
                string Body = ((TextBox)gvr.FindControl("txtBody")).Text; ;
                string Name = ((TextBox)gvr.FindControl("txtName")).Text; ;
                MessageDataServiceContext context = GetContext();

                //var m = (from mess in context.Messages
                //         where
                //             (mess.PartitionKey == PartitionKey) &&
                //             (mess.RowKey == RowKey)
                //         select mess).First();
                var m = new Message();
                m.PartitionKey = PartitionKey;
                m.RowKey = RowKey;
                m.Timestamp = Convert.ToDateTime(TimeStamp);
                m.Body = Body;
                m.Name = Name;
                context.AttachTo("Messages", m, "*");
                context.UpdateMessage(m);
                RoleManager.WriteToLog("Information", "Update complete.");
                DisplayMessages();
            }
        }

        protected void Timer1_OnTick(Object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            DisplayMessages();
        }

        private void DisplayMessages()
        {
            MessageDataServiceContext context = GetContext();
            RoleManager.WriteToLog("Verbose", "Display Messages.");
            messageList.DataSource = context.Messages.Take(10);
            messageList.DataBind();
        }

        private MessageDataServiceContext GetContext()
        {
            MessageDataServiceContext context;
            StorageAccountInfo accountInfo = StorageAccountInfo.GetAccountInfoFromConfiguration("TableStorageEndpoint");
            TableStorage.CreateTablesFromModel(typeof(MessageDataServiceContext), accountInfo);
            context = new MessageDataServiceContext(accountInfo);
            RoleManager.WriteToLog("Verbose", "Message Data Service Context created.");
            return context;
        }

        protected void SubmitButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            StorageAccountInfo accountInfo = StorageAccountInfo.GetAccountInfoFromConfiguration("TableStorageEndpoint");
            MessageDataServiceContext context = new MessageDataServiceContext(accountInfo);
            context.AddMessage(this.nameBox.Text, this.messageBox.Text);
            nameBox.Text = String.Empty;
            messageBox.Text = String.Empty;
            DisplayMessages();
        }
    }
}

Source Code for Default.aspx:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="TableCloudService_WebRole._Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Azure Table Example Page</title>
        <style type="text/css">
        body { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; }
        h1 { font-size: 12pt; color: #555555; }
        li { list-style-type: none; }
        form { background-color: #eeeeff; width: 80%; margin: 0 auto; padding: 1em; border: solid 1px #333333; }
        #entryform, #messages { margin: 1em 0 }
        #entryform li span { float: left; width: 15%; color:#333333; margin-top:0.25em; }
        #entryform input[type="text"] { border: solid 1px #999999; }
        #messages { border: solid 1px #999999; }
        #messages li { padding: 0.5em; }
        .error { color: #ff0000; }
        .even { background-color: #ccccff; }
        .odd { background-color: #ffffff; font-style: italic; }
        .messageBox { width: 73%; }
    </style>

</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <asp:ScriptManager ID="sm" runat="server" />
    <div>
        <h1>Windows Azure Chat</h1>
        <ul id="entryform">
            <li><span>Your name</span><asp:TextBox ID="nameBox" runat="server" Text="Anonymous" /></li>
            <li><span>Message</span><asp:TextBox ID="messageBox" runat="server" CssClass="messageBox" /> <asp:Button ID="submitButton" runat="server" Text="Submit" OnClick="SubmitButton_Click" /></li>
            <li><span><asp:LinkButton ID="lbDisplayMessages" runat="server" OnClick="lbDisplayMessages_Click" Text="Update Messages" /></span></li>
        </ul>
                <div>
                    <asp:Label ID="status" runat="server" CssClass="error" />
                </div>
                <asp:GridView ID="messageList" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false">
                    <AlternatingRowStyle CssClass="even" />
                    <RowStyle CssClass="odd" />
                    <Columns>
                    <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Name">
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <asp:HiddenField ID="hdPartitionKey" runat="server" Value='<%#Eval("PartitionKey") %>' />
                        <asp:HiddenField ID="hdRowKey" runat="server" Value='<%#Eval("RowKey") %>' />
                        <asp:HiddenField ID="hdTimeStamp" runat="server" Value='<%#Eval("TimeStamp") %>' />
                        <asp:HiddenField ID="hdName" runat="server" Value='<%#Eval("Name") %>' />
                        <asp:HiddenField ID="hdBody" runat="server" Value='<%#Eval("Body") %>' />
                        <asp:TextBox ID="txtName" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Name") %>' />
                        said:
                    </ItemTemplate>
                    </asp:TemplateField>
                    <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Message">
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <asp:TextBox ID="txtBody" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Body") %>' />
                    </ItemTemplate>
                    </asp:TemplateField>
                    <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Operations">
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <asp:LinkButton ID="updateMessage"
                            CommandName="Update"
                            runat="server" Text="Update" OnCommand="OnUpdateMessage" />
                        <asp:LinkButton ID="deleteMessage"
                            OnClientClick="return confirm('Delete Message?');"
                            CommandName="Delete"
                            runat="server" Text="Delete" OnCommand="OnDeleteMessage" />
                    </ItemTemplate>
                    </asp:TemplateField>
                    </Columns>
                </asp:GridView>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Source for Message.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using Microsoft.Samples.ServiceHosting.StorageClient;

namespace TableCloudService_WebRole
{
    public class Message : TableStorageEntity
    {
        //private string PartitionKey;
        //private string RowKey;
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string Body { get; set; }

        public Message()
        {
            PartitionKey = "a";
            RowKey = String.Format("{0:10},{1}", DateTime.MaxValue.Ticks - DateTime.Now.Ticks,
                Guid.NewGuid().ToString());
        }
    }
}

Source for MessageDataServiceContext.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using Microsoft.Samples.ServiceHosting.StorageClient;

namespace TableCloudService_WebRole
{
    public class MessageDataServiceContext : TableStorageDataServiceContext
    {
        public MessageDataServiceContext(StorageAccountInfo accountInfo) : base(accountInfo)
        {
        }

        public IQueryable<Message> Messages
        {
            get
            {
                return this.CreateQuery<Message>("Messages");
            }
        }

        public void AddMessage(string name, string body)
        {
            Message MessageEntity = new Message { Name = name, Body = body };
            this.AddObject("Messages", MessageEntity);
            this.SaveChanges();
        }

        public void DeleteMessage(Object MessageEntity)
        {
            this.DeleteObject(MessageEntity);
            this.SaveChanges();
        }

        public void UpdateMessage(Object MessageEntity)
        {
            this.UpdateObject(MessageEntity);
            this.SaveChanges();
        }
    }
}

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ASP.NET Podcast Show #132 - Windows Azure Blob Storage - video

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:00:00 GMT

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Azure SDK.

Vista SP1.
Visual studio 2008/.NET 3.5 SP1.
Local Development.Speed.
VPC.
Improvements are coming.
YMMV.

Project type.

Configuration settings.
Web Project.

Storage Client.
Local Development Fabric.
Local Development Storage.
Hands on Labs. This example is taken, with modifications, from the hands on labs.

Local Development Storage Setup:

Local Development Storage:

Source Code for Default.aspx.cs file:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using Microsoft.ServiceHosting.ServiceRuntime;
using Microsoft.Samples.ServiceHosting.StorageClient;

namespace CloudImageService_WebRole
{
    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        private string unknownValue = "unknown";
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (!Page.IsPostBack)
            {
                RefreshGallery();
            }
        }

        protected void upload_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (imageFile.HasFile)
            {
                status.Text = "Inserted [" + imageFile.FileName +
                    "] - Content Type [" + imageFile.PostedFile.ContentType + "]";
                SaveImages(Guid.NewGuid().ToString(), imageName.Text, imageDescription.Text,
                    imageTags.Text, imageFile.FileName, imageFile.PostedFile.ContentType,
                    imageFile.FileBytes);
                imageTags.Text = String.Empty;
                imageDescription.Text = String.Empty;
                imageName.Text = String.Empty;
                RefreshGallery();
            }
            else{
                status.Text = "No image file uploaded.";
            }
        }

        private void SaveImages(string id, string name, string description, string tags, string fileName, string contentType, byte[] data)
        {
            BlobProperties properties = new BlobProperties(string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "image_{0}", id));
            NameValueCollection metadata = new NameValueCollection();
            BlobContainer container = GetContainer();
            metadata["Id"] = id;
            metadata["Filename"] = fileName;
            metadata["ImageName"] = String.IsNullOrEmpty(name) ? unknownValue : name;
            metadata["Description"] = String.IsNullOrEmpty(description) ? unknownValue : description;
            metadata["Tags"] = String.IsNullOrEmpty(tags) ? unknownValue : tags;
            properties.Metadata = metadata;
            properties.ContentType = contentType;
            BlobContents imageBlob = new BlobContents(data);
            container.CreateBlob(properties, imageBlob, true);

        }

        protected void OnBlobDataBound(object sender, ListViewItemEventArgs e)
        {
            BlobContainer container = GetContainer();
            if (e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.DataItem)
            {
                Repeater metadataRepeater = e.Item.FindControl("blobMetadata") as Repeater;
                BlobProperties blob = ((ListViewDataItem)(e.Item)).DataItem as BlobProperties;
                NameValueCollection metadata = container.GetBlobProperties(blob.Name).Metadata;
                metadataRepeater.DataSource = from key in metadata.AllKeys
                                              select new
                                              {
                                                  Name = key,
                                                  Value = metadata[key]
                                              };
                metadataRepeater.DataBind();
            }
        }

        protected void OnDeleteImage(object sender, CommandEventArgs e)
        {
            BlobContainer container = GetContainer();
            if (e.CommandName == "Delete")
            {
                string blobName = (string)e.CommandArgument;
                if (container.DoesBlobExist(blobName))
                {
                    container.DeleteBlob(blobName);
                }
                else
                {
                    status.Text = "Item does not exist";
                }
                RefreshGallery();
            }
        }

        private void RefreshGallery()
        {
            BlobContainer container = GetContainer();
            images.DataSource = container.ListBlobs(String.Empty, false);
            images.DataBind();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// This is code written against an early CTP.
        /// It is neither production ready or a best of breed.
        /// It is merely code that works today.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        private BlobContainer GetContainer()
        {
            string blobContainer = RoleManager.GetConfigurationSetting("ContainerName");
            BlobStorage blobStorage = BlobStorage.Create(StorageAccountInfo.GetDefaultBlobStorageAccountFromConfiguration());
            BlobContainer newContainer = blobStorage.GetBlobContainer(blobContainer);
            if (!newContainer.DoesContainerExist())
            {
                newContainer.CreateContainer(null, ContainerAccessControl.Public);
            }
            return (newContainer);
        }
    }
}

Source code for Default.aspx:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="CloudImageService_WebRole._Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Azure Blob Storage Engine Page</title>
        <style type="text/css">
        body { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; }
        h1 { font-size:x-large; font-weight:bold; }
        h2 { font-size:large; font-weight:bold; }
        img { width:200px; height:175px; margin:2em;}
        li { list-style: none; }
        ul { padding:1em; }

        .form { width:50em; }
        .form li span {width:30%; float:left; font-weight:bold; }
        .form li input { width:70%; float:left; }
        .form input { float:right; }

        .item { font-size:smaller; font-weight:bold; }
        .item ul li { padding:0.25em; background-color:#ffeecc; }
        .item ul li span { padding:0.25em; background-color:#ffffff; display:block; font-style:italic; font-weight:normal; }
    </style>

</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
            <h1>Image Gallery (Windows Azure Blob Storage)</h1>
        <div class="form">
            <ul>
                <li><span>Name</span><asp:TextBox ID="imageName" runat="server"/></li>
                <li><span>Description</span><asp:TextBox ID="imageDescription" runat="server"/></li>
                <li><span>Tags</span><asp:TextBox ID="imageTags" runat="server"/></li>
                <li><span>Filename</span><asp:FileUpload ID="imageFile" runat="server" /></li>
            </ul>
            <asp:Button ID="upload" runat="server" onclick="upload_Click" Text="Upload Image" />
        </div>
        <div>
        Status: <asp:Label ID="status" runat="server" />
        </div>

            <asp:ListView ID="images" runat="server" OnItemDataBound="OnBlobDataBound">
            <LayoutTemplate>
                <asp:PlaceHolder ID="itemPlaceholder" runat="server" />
            </LayoutTemplate>
            <EmptyDataTemplate>
                <h2>No Data Available</h2>
            </EmptyDataTemplate>
            <ItemTemplate>
                <div class="item">
                    <ul style="width:40em;float:left;clear:left" >
                    <asp:Repeater ID="blobMetadata" runat="server">
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <li><%# Eval("Name") %><span><%# Eval("Value") %></span></li>
                    </ItemTemplate>
                    </asp:Repeater>
                    <%-- UNCOMMENT THE FOLLOWING LINES FOR DELETE FUNCTIONALITY --%>
                        <li>
                        <asp:LinkButton ID="deleteBlob"
                                OnClientClick="return confirm('Delete image?');"
                                CommandName="Delete"
                                CommandArgument='<%# Eval("Name")%>'
                                runat="server" Text="Delete" oncommand="OnDeleteImage" />
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                    <img src="<%# Eval("Uri") %>" alt="<%# Eval("Name") %>" style="float:left"/>
                </div>
            </ItemTemplate>
        </asp:ListView>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

.csdef file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ServiceDefinition name="CloudImageService" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceDefinition">
<WebRole name="WebRole">
    <InputEndpoints>
      
      <InputEndpoint name="HttpIn" protocol="http" port="80" />
    </InputEndpoints>
    <ConfigurationSettings>
      <Setting name="AccountName" />
      <Setting name="AccountSharedKey" />
      <Setting name="BlobStorageEndpoint" />
      <Setting name="QueueStorageEndpoint" />
      <Setting name="TableStorageEndpoint" />
      <Setting name="ContainerName" />
    </ConfigurationSettings>
</WebRole>
</ServiceDefinition>

cscfg file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ServiceConfiguration serviceName="CloudImageService" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceConfiguration">
<Role name="WebRole">
    <Instances count="1"/>
    <ConfigurationSettings>
        <Setting name="AccountName" value="devstoreaccount1" />
        <Setting name="AccountSharedKey" value="Eby8vdM02xNOcqFlqUwJPLlmEtlCDXJ1OUzFT50uSRZ6IFsuFq2UVErCz4I6tq/K1SZFPTOtr/KBHBeksoGMGw==" />
        <Setting name="BlobStorageEndpoint" value="http://127.0.0.1:10000/" />
        <Setting name="QueueStorageEndpoint" value="http://127.0.0.1:10001/" />
        <Setting name="TableStorageEndpoint" value="http://127.0.0.1:10002/" />
        <Setting name="ContainerName" value="storagegallery" />
    </ConfigurationSettings>
</Role>
</ServiceConfiguration>

ASP.NET Podcast Show #128 - AJAX with jQuery

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:00:00 GMT

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