I run few days into a problem when I was not able to delete local development storage tables using Windows Azure API and system was throwing me exceptions. The reason of these exceptions I guess was the fact that table were very big. In basic scenarios resetting can be archived with Storage emulator UI. [...]
Unfortunately Azure API not supporting Contains LINQ expressions . Contains Syntax: LINQ public static Product[] GetProducts(Guid[] prodIDs) { return (from p in GetProducts() where prodIDs.Contains(p.ProductID) select p).ToArray<Product>(); } TSQL expression – WHERE [t0].[ProductID] IN (@p0, @p1)’, LINQ contains syntax example has been taken from http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2008/05/09/using-linq-to-perform-quot-where-in-value1-value2-quot-queries.aspx
Got interesting exception today while trying to upload multiple file blobs to Azure container. private void UploadFileToBlob(string url, Asset asset,string filepath,string filename) { var container = new CloudBlobContainer(url); //Get a reference to a blob, which may or may not exist. CloudBlob blob = container.GetBlobReference(filename); blob.DeleteIfExists(); //Upload content to the blob, which will create the [...]
If you creating web application to be deployed to Windows Azure, you probably noticed that deployment and azure instance initialization may take a while. Any missing reference or break will cause you time and lost productivity. Few days ago I spent couple of hours trying to include all mvc references one by one making sure [...]
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