Windows Azure getting started

Question

User241115960 posted

I been using dot net but don't know anythng about windows azure. Can anyone explain in context of dotnet .

Thanks

Answer 1

User541108374 posted

Hi,

I suggest you take a look at these pages: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/. Be sure to take your time and/or narrow down things as there's a lot to be learned out there.

Also be sure to take a look at http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/other-resources/training-kit/. This is a full blown training kit which you can use to learn how to code against Azure. Highly recommended to get started.

If you want to narrow down things I would suggest you learn SQL (Azure) Database and Windows Azure Web Sites first as that's what's mostly used in combination with ASP.NET.

Grz, Kris.

Answer 2

User-801004448 posted

I been using dot net but don't know anythng about windows azure. Can anyone explain in context of dotnet .

You should first decide whether you want shared web hosting or virtual machine (with RDP remote desktop access).

Answer 3

User311508580 posted

Hi vikram,

Yes, that's correct, you need to learn about Azure first.

Answer 4

User241115960 posted

I know about IaaS and PaaS and the differences.

I have few doubts like:

Which websites are good candidature for Azure.

Any website (url) hosted on VM, so that I can check for the server loading time and is it better than others

Thanks.

Answer 5

User541108374 posted

Hi,

I suggest you take a look at the free hosting of WAWS (Windows Azure Web Sites) first as there you can test easily to see if it's a good mix & match.

If it's all simple websites dealing with databases and the like you can go for Azure for sure (WAWS is the easiest solution likely). If you need more things like queues or exotic things then you can fall back to either standard available things like Service Bus or Queues, storage, ... If that isn't enough then you can go for IaaS and install the stuff you need yourself.

Grz, Kris.

Answer 6

User241115960 posted

I have hosted few websites on other hosting providers(both windows and linux). Now I want to transfer them to windows azrue. This is the simplest things I thought of doing to get started with windows azure. I have 30 days free trial subscription of windows azrue.

Any links showing steps to do that can be of help.

Thanks

Answer 7

User-691245060 posted

Now I want to transfer them to windows azrue. This is the simplest things I thought of doing to get started with windows azure

Migrating needs to be planned, check for some coding gotchas for cloud ready like - Usage of Session Variables, using CloudConfiguration Manager, check if your code is dependent on Server file system, check all the paths to be relative etc..

Even though it is an old resource, but you can at least get an idea on migrating existing application to Azure - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jnak/archive/2010/02/08/migrating-an-existing-asp-net-app-to-run-on-windows-azure.aspx

And to get started with Azure check out pluralsight - http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses#windows-azure

Thanks,

Answer 8

User541108374 posted

Hi,

Any links showing steps to do that can be of help.

Take a look at http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/tutorials/get-started/ and at http://blog.krisvandermast.com/HowToSetupOrchardCMSOnWindowsAzureWebSitesWithAWindowsAzureSQLDatabase.aspx for getting started with the database part. First try to migrate the database and then migrate your site via the web publishing profile (or FTP as per your liking).

Grz, Kris.

Answer 9

User-1567482218 posted

I found plenty of useful links with this Google search - http://www.google.com/custom?q=azure+web+site+migration&btnG=Search

I found the following interesting -

http://blog.structuretoobig.com/post/2013/08/07/Migrating-a-Blog-to-Windows-Azure-Web-Sites.aspx

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Azure-Web-Sites-Tutorials/Migrate-a-Database-backed-Web-Site-and-database-to-Windows-Azure-Web-Sites

http://www.diaryofaninja.com/blog/2013/09/28/migrating-diary-of-a-ninja-to-azure-websites-and-sql-azure

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PennyPinchingInTheCloudWhenDoAzureWebsitesMakeSense.aspx

http://10rem.net/blog/2013/07/16/my-site-migration-to-windows-azure-web-sites

I'll be looking out for more of these actual developer experiences and log them here - http://mvark.blogspot.in/2014/01/real-stories-of-site-migration-to.html