E' arrivato il momento della disponibilitá di una "appliance" di Windows Azure prima per partner di eccellenza come Dell, HP, Fujitsu ... e successivamente anche per grandi clienti come EBay ecc.. Microsoft si occupera'della manutenzione a distanza e i clienti delle applicazioni ... per approfondimenti: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-launches-azure-private-cloud-in-a-box/6778

Stando a quanto riportato qui, Windows Azure ha superato la bellezza di 10000 clienti. Ovviamente ogni cliente con la sua o le sue applicazioni puó a sua volta avere 1 o piú utenti reali.

 Giuseppe

Una velocissima screenshot della console di Windows Azure Developlment Fabric in azione:

In particolare i cerchi verdi indicano l'attivitá della versione locale e sulla destra il trace sulle console delle macchine virtuali (sempre locali).

Giuseppe

Per migrare in modo assistito e comodo i propri dati da locale su SQL Azure é disponibile (anche in sorgente) il tool SQL Azure Migration Wizard che al momento in cui sto scrivendo é arrivato alla versione 3.3:

Giuseppe

Una comodissima management console da installare localmente per Windows Azure in the cloud e locale. Si puó scaricare da qui: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazuremmc ed é uno strumento indispensabile per chi intende lavorare seriamente con questa tecnologia.

In questo screencast da 15 minuti viene mostrato l'utilizzo.

Giuseppe

Un ottimo esempio completo per Windows Azure. Mostra come utilizzare dati e BLOB storage con una ottima guida per installare e eseguire, testare e lanciare l'esempio sia localmente che online. 

 Architettura (documento consultabile nella cartella docs):

 Alcuni link:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/BidNowSample

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/BidNowSample/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Getting%20Started%20with%20Bid%20Now&referringTitle=Home

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/BidNowSample/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Demo%20Walkthrough&referringTitle=Home

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/BidNowSample/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Deploy%20Bid%20Now%20to%20the%20cloud&referringTitle=Home

Giuseppe

Usando il Windows Azure Service Bus con .NET 4.0 potreste incorrere in questo errore:

Configuration binding extension 'system.serviceModel/bindings/netTcpRelayBinding' could not be found.

Il messaggio completo è il seguente:

Configuration binding extension 'system.serviceModel/bindings/netTcpRelayBinding' could not be found. Verify that this binding extension is properly registered in system.serviceModel/extensions/bindingExtensions and that it is spelled correctly. (c:\users\gdimauro\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\CloudService4\EchoService\bin\Debug\EchoService.vshost.exe.Config line 5)

Come risolverlo ? Semplicemente aggiungendo le parti evidenziate di seguito nel file “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config” :

            <behaviorExtensions>
                <add name="persistenceProvider" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.PersistenceProviderElement, System.WorkflowServices, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
                <add name="workflowRuntime" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.WorkflowRuntimeElement, System.WorkflowServices, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
                <add name="enableWebScript" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.WebScriptEnablingElement, System.ServiceModel.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
                <add name="webHttp" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.WebHttpElement, System.ServiceModel.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
                <add name="serviceDiscovery" type="System.ServiceModel.Discovery.Configuration.ServiceDiscoveryElement, System.ServiceModel.Discovery, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="endpointDiscovery" type="System.ServiceModel.Discovery.Configuration.EndpointDiscoveryElement, System.ServiceModel.Discovery, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="etwTracking" type="System.ServiceModel.Activities.Configuration.EtwTrackingBehaviorElement, System.ServiceModel.Activities, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="routing" type="System.ServiceModel.Routing.Configuration.RoutingExtensionElement, System.ServiceModel.Routing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="soapProcessing" type="System.ServiceModel.Routing.Configuration.SoapProcessingExtensionElement, System.ServiceModel.Routing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="workflowIdle" type="System.ServiceModel.Activities.Configuration.WorkflowIdleElement, System.ServiceModel.Activities, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="workflowUnhandledException" type="System.ServiceModel.Activities.Configuration.WorkflowUnhandledExceptionElement, System.ServiceModel.Activities, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="bufferedReceive" type="System.ServiceModel.Activities.Configuration.BufferedReceiveElement, System.ServiceModel.Activities, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="sendMessageChannelCache" type="System.ServiceModel.Activities.Configuration.SendMessageChannelCacheElement, System.ServiceModel.Activities, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="sqlWorkflowInstanceStore" type="System.ServiceModel.Activities.Configuration.SqlWorkflowInstanceStoreElement, System.ServiceModel.Activities, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="workflowInstanceManagement" type="System.ServiceModel.Activities.Configuration.WorkflowInstanceManagementElement, System.ServiceModel.Activities, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="connectionStatusBehavior" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.ConnectionStatusElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="transportClientEndpointBehavior" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.TransportClientEndpointBehaviorElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
            </behaviorExtensions>            <bindingElementExtensions>
                <add name="webMessageEncoding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.WebMessageEncodingElement, System.ServiceModel.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
                <add name="context" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ContextBindingElementExtensionElement, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>
                <add name="byteStreamMessageEncoding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ByteStreamMessageEncodingElement, System.ServiceModel.Channels, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
                <add name="discoveryClient" type="System.ServiceModel.Discovery.Configuration.DiscoveryClientElement, System.ServiceModel.Discovery, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
                <add name="tcpRelayTransport" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.TcpRelayTransportElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="httpRelayTransport" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.HttpRelayTransportElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="httpsRelayTransport" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.HttpsRelayTransportElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="onewayRelayTransport" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.RelayedOnewayTransportElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
            </bindingElementExtensions>            <bindingExtensions>
                <add name="wsHttpContextBinding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.WSHttpContextBindingCollectionElement, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>
                <add name="netTcpContextBinding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.NetTcpContextBindingCollectionElement, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>
                <add name="webHttpBinding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.WebHttpBindingCollectionElement, System.ServiceModel.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
                <add name="basicHttpContextBinding" type="System.ServiceModel.Configuration.BasicHttpContextBindingCollectionElement, System.ServiceModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>
                <add name="basicHttpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.BasicHttpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="webHttpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.WebHttpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="ws2007HttpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.WS2007HttpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="netTcpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.NetTcpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="netOnewayRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.NetOnewayRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add name="netEventRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.NetEventRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
            </bindingExtensions>

Giuseppe