I am building an application which will be running workflows on Azure. I have seen the build presentation Building Applications with Workflow and Azure – BUILD 2011 which discusses what is capabl...

I have a application that can be broken down into multiple communicating services. My current implementation is monolithic and I want to reorganize it so that individual components can be deployed,...

I'd like to make my application as flexible as possible, but not dig myself into a hole by making my Interface too specific. What is the best object type for a repository? IEnumerable, IQu...

In cache-aside as well as Read-through patterns, in both the patterns we need to write code to write to the database. So whats the real advantage of read-through,write-behind approach?Please clarif...

If there are no longer any publishers or subscribers reading nor writing to a Queue, Topic, or Subscription, because of crashes or other abnormal terminations (instance restart, etc.), is that Queu...

I have successfully started using Azure AppFabric Caching Service, but I' not sure what the best practice way of creating the DataCacheFactory object is. Now I'm creating it for every call into the...

When looking at the request urls that Azure ACS generates I can see that ACS includes email, fullname, firstname and lastname as required claims. Further, the fullname attribute is mapped to the ht...

Via Google, I found another question on stackoverflow regarding the differences and similarities between Azure AppFabric and Windows Server AppFabric. It was mentioned that both versions of AppFabr...

I have a problem related to the webRole debugging. Not running in a hosted service or the Development Fabric. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web ...

Writing a test application for my AppFabric-based library, I started getting a strange exception. The X.509 certificate CN=servicebus.appfabriclabs.com chain building failed. The certificate that ...