Arun Stephens

And neither is Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diagnostics. It’s ironic that the diagnosis of Windows Azure roles failing to start up is that the Diagnostics assembly isn’t present. I’ve spent the better part of a day trying to figure out why things weren’t working. According to countless forum posts, blog articles and MSDN articles, the main reason that roles fail to fire up and end up cycling between initializing and busy is that there are dependent files missing. Read post »

If you have successfully installed an app running MVC 2 on Azure, and then try to upgrade it to MVC 3, you might run into some troubles. What might help is to ensure that you have also deployed the new assemblies. MVC 2 is part of .NET 4.0, and its assemblies are included in the standard Azure image, but the new ones aren’t. You have to deploy them yourself. They won’t get deployed by default because they Read post »

This is old, but new to me. I guess it shows that I haven’t been doing a lot of front-end work lately. I am trying to post an array to a server, using jQuery: $('#fbshare').click(function () {<br></br> $.post('url',<br></br> { array: [ 'only one item' ] },<br></br> function() {<br></br> alert('done!');<br></br> }, 'json') Read post »

I wish I knew this before I spent $12 on a custom domain for blog.zoopcast.com. You can’t use Google Analytics on a WordPress.com site. I think the advantages of hosting the blog on their infrastructure outweigh the inconvenience of not having all metrics in one place (at least at this early stage), but it sure is an inconvenience. Hopefully the WordPress.com Stats feature is good enough. From what I’ve read on TechCrunch though (and Read post »

I recently updated to Azure SDK 1.3. Then I tried to debug my solution locally. This is where the trouble began. The problem was that I was using the IIS Rewrite module without having it installed. Rewrite was part of Azure SDK 1.2, but it has to be installed separately for 1.3. I guess I should have read the release notes. Here is what the problem was, and how I found the solution. I would consistently get Read post »