I got remote access issue of SQL Server 2K8 R2 on Windows Server 2K8 R2 which has firewall turned on. The fix took awhile so this post will note all steps that have been performed.

I deploy a sample application called SoftNews on AppHarbor. It works pretty well without any purchase as I still use free services (with small free RavenDB / Redis instances)

I got an issue when deploying an application to AppHarbor cloud Platform regarding empty folder (!). It is a serious one because the application crash after deployment even with a experimental project.

In this post I will share my little POC on Azure Cloud Storage including Blob / Queue. There are other ones like DocumentDB / Azure Tables / SQL Database, I had worked with but another post will cover these parts later. All code samples can be found in this repository on github

I have deployed application to Microsoft Azure and AppHabor but there are differences bitween two platform from the model to coding. It took me times, and I noted there for references.

My story is that the website deployed on Azure needs to have Disqus function… It should be trivial because Disqus provide a nice plugin and just some simple configuration steps are required. It’s nothing but https is required. It impires me to create a new attribute called RequireHttpsInProductionAttribute.

If an application will be deployed on Azure we can secure sensitive application settings (include AppSettings and ConnectionStrings) easily with just a little work for doing configuration and nothing is required to change on code.

Redis is a suppoer fast NoSQL data store, it can be used to cache our very high loaded data. This article will show in detail how to setup and configure Redis Cache on Azure and its usage.

Continuing on my previous post regarding EF-Azure for project IOnline, I need to adapt this requirement to: (1) Not using EF to count number of messages (total messages in the system and by categories) and (2) Use Dapper for the data access layer as a replacement. So I will have to create some stored procedures to make this works.

When working with EF Code First approach, we must update system database after modified model entities and of course, we must create a migration (or many migrations, depending on how are your changes). Later we can update the database manually or automatically (on the first read/write to the database).

Microsoft Azure is a cloud-platform which enables us to host not only web-application, but also for long-running tasks such as data processing background task, periodic backup task…