Downloading Windows Azure Subscription Publish Settings

You can download the Subscription Publish Settings using the new Azure Management Portal from the following link (latest version): https://manage.windowsazure.com/publishsettings/index Version 1 https://windows.azure.com/download/publishprofile.aspx OR https://manage.windowsazure.com/publishsettings/Index?client=vs&SchemaVersion=1.0

Querying Azure Table Storage with Multi-Part Partition Key

If you have an Azure Table Storage table with a partition key made up of multiple parts (e.g. “{companyId}:{employeeId}“) where the former is of predictable string length (e.g. a GUID) and want to, for example, return all the rows for a company you could achieve this by searching for rows with a partition key of … More Querying Azure Table Storage with Multi-Part Partition Key

MySQL in a .NET App

When you have the MySQL .NET library installed on a local machine and want to deploy an Entity Framework application to a server without the library installed, I always (thus-far without fail) forget at least one of the following: EntityFramework.dll – set to copy local MySql.Data.dll – set to copy local MySql.Data.Entity.dll – set to … More MySQL in a .NET App