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Windows Azure MVC 3 with Tools 1.4

By Marcel Meijer

One of the new things in Visual Studio Windows Azure tools 1.4 Augustus update (what a mouthful) is that MVC 3 is a standard WebRole. But also Profiling is now a serious option for debugging, besides the already present Web deploy possibility. So when I was playing with the Tools update, I took a vanilla MVC 3 WebRole and deployed this one to my second Hosted Service with all options. So with profiling on. If you select this option, you have to select a level of profiling. I choose CPU sampling, I will have a look at the other choices … Continue reading Windows Azure MVC 3 with Tools 1.4

Windows Azure Visual Studio Tools 1.4 Augustus update

By Marcel Meijer

As of today there is a update for the Windows Azure Visual Studio Tools. This update can be installed via the Microsoft Web platform Installer. More info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/08/03/announcing-the-august-2011-release-of-the-windows-azure-tools-for-microsoft-visual-studio-2010.aspx Did you read my previous blog post on Windows Azure & Configuration transformation? Than you saw that the transformation for another environment was a bit of a hassle. My experience was also that is was not very reliable on different machines. But on the other hand if it works, it is perfect. Now the update of the Windows Azure Visual Studio tools make the transformation part quite a bit easier. When creating … Continue reading Windows Azure Visual Studio Tools 1.4 Augustus update

New Windows Azure Management Portal

By Marcel Meijer

Yes, finally. There has been an update on the Windows Azure Management portal. No new functionality was added (however I have some whishes left), but the UX of the Management portal is more intuitive. Before when you accidently did a Right Mouse click, you got the vague message: it is a Silverlight site. Yeah so what . Luckily of course this means Silverlight is far from dead (but that is a different discussion), but the vague message was not very functional. But with the update there are serious context serious action menu when doing a Right Mouse click on the … Continue reading New Windows Azure Management Portal