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Re: Cloud Cover Episode 11 - Drives and IIS Hostable Worker Core

William Leong — Sat, 15 May 2010 00:25:23 GMT

Great show! Problem is you've included so many resources that it will take me a while to go through all the show links. Keep up the good work.

posted by William Leong

Re: Cloud Cover Episode 11 - Drives and IIS Hostable Worker Core

smarx — Sat, 15 May 2010 00:41:15 GMT

Sorry, we'll try to be less informative.

FYI, I have a blog post up at http://blog.smarx.com/posts/serving-your-website-from-a-windows-azure-drive that shows the code from this episode.

posted by smarx

Re: Cloud Cover Episode 11 - Drives and IIS Hostable Worker Core

hansol — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:49:16 GMT

Thanks for the great show - I love it that you keep releasing shows at a quick pace and also throw in a bit of humour into the mix

But seriously, I'm a .NET expert - I actually programmed it even before it was released, and read like C# books before it came out. But alas I'm an Azure noob and I can't even get a simple web role to work - I have VS2010 RTM and Azure tools 1.1 and when I try to upload my package to staging it's stuck in "Initializing - Stopping - Stopped" and there's of course no diagnostics to find anywhere even though I'm pretty sure i set up the Diagnostics connection string correctly. I'm sure I have a web.config or other config error somewhere.

Please, make a walkthrough of making azure services - this is unfortunately not as easy as it should be.

posted by hansol

Re: Cloud Cover Episode 11 - Drives and IIS Hostable Worker Core

dunnry — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:08:45 GMT

Hi Hansol -

Sorry to hear about your issue. Take a look at episode 2 I think where the TotW is how to troubleshoot that problem. Here is the link that we refer to:

http://blog.toddysm.com/2010/01/windows-azure-deployment-stuck-in-initializing-busy-stopping-why.html

Steve and I also did a video called 'Hello Windows Azure' that might be the walkthru you are looking for.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/dunnry/Hello-Windows-Azure/

If you have idea for other topics you would like to see, leave us a comment or use @cloudcovershow and share your idea. Thanks for watching!

posted by dunnry

Re: Cloud Cover Episode 11 - Drives and IIS Hostable Worker Core

hansol — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:29:18 GMT

Thanks Ryan. I already checked out the first url you mention. So I think my problem is related to the WCF-service that I try to consume from within my azure web role. There's a whole lot of auto web.config stuff going on that probably don't work for live production, but only in the test-environment or something. Maybe you could make a quick demo of setting up a simple hello world wcf-service inside a web role? And again, thanks! You and smarx are a great team and I can't wait for the next show

posted by hansol

Re: Cloud Cover Episode 11 - Drives and IIS Hostable Worker Core

dunnry — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:25:55 GMT

Not a bad idea... I have some other things I want to show there as well. Hmm...

For your immediate relief, have you seen the WCF on Azure samples and troubleshooting guidance?

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

Check the Known Issues link there and see about a few gotchas due to the load balancer and the QFE hotfix (already in cloud, btw).

posted by dunnry

Re: Cloud Cover Episode 11 - Drives and IIS Hostable Worker Core

hansol — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:19:54 GMT

Thanks again. I think my problem is the load-balancing thing described in the Known Issues, as you mention.

posted by hansol