ASP.NET MVC–Azure Websites and EF Model First Connection Strings when Deploying from Github
Image by Hammad Ali | Some Rights Reserved One of the coolest things about Windows Azure Websites is the integration with source control, and the automated deployment hooks Azure offers. However, there are a number of small...
Modeling a Directory Structure on Azure Blob Storage
Windows Azure has matured nicely over the past few years into a very developer-friendly “Infrastructure-As-A-Service” platform. While many of the recent public announcements have been focused Azure Websites,...
Understanding Windows Azure Blob Storage (A Quick Overview)
Image by Bob Mical | Some Rights Reserved In the course of the past two years Microsoft has made significant strides in creating a developer-friendly experience for using Windows Azure. From a rather disjointed (and to me, poorly...
Webmatrix 3: Integrated Git and Deployment to Azure
TL;DR – Webmatrix 3 is cooler than you might think. It offers a very convenient set of features which to my mind are a complement to, and not replacement for, a more robust development environment. Particularly for doing...
Deploying an Azure Website from Source Control
TL;DR – Setting up automatic deployment to Windows Azure Websites from your source control repository is just about painless. While the free Windows Azure Websites offering is not without it’s shortcomings, and the...