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Month: July 2012

Upgrading to Azure 1.7 SDK: Visual Studio build and publishing problems

July 24, 2012 by mvolo 10 Comments

We recently went through upgrading www.leansentry.com to the Windows Azure SDK version 1.7, and definitely hit a fair share of problems with building and publishing afterwards.  It was a somewhat painful process taking me deep into the night, and I figured I’ll share some of the things I learned along the way to make it … [Read more…]

Posted in: Azure, IIS, VisualStudio Tagged: Azure, IIS, LeanSentry

Configure IIS websites on Windows Azure with startup tasks and AppCmd

July 15, 2012 by mvolo 8 Comments

At LeanSentry, we use Windows Azure heavily to scale out our extensive data collection and diagnostic data processing.   Just like anyone else, we have our fair share of difficulties with deploying and configuring our web roles, esp. when it comes to more advanced configuration.  As a result, we often rely on startup tasks to … [Read more…]

Posted in: AppCmd, Azure, CodeProject, IIS Tagged: Azure, LeanSentry

Troubleshoot Windows Azure apps with LeanSentry in seconds!

July 12, 2012 by mvolo 1 Comment

We all know that getting visibility into Azure apps can be painful! Over at LeanSentry, our big goal is to make troubleshooting Azure apps just as easy as we make it for standard hosting environments. To make this easy, we just released the Azure Nuget package for LeanSentry.  With this, it literally takes 2 seconds … [Read more…]

Posted in: Azure, LeanSentry Tagged: Azure, LeanSentry, Nuget

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