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jimzim — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:06:59 GMT

Windows Azure Helpers

Welcome to the Windows Azure Helpers. Originally this toolkit was built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft to give the community a good starter kit for getting Facebook apps up and running in Windows Azure. Since then we have worked with Microsoft to get the Azure samples running in the Facebook C# SDK http://facebooksdk.codeplex.com and have made this toolkit more of a helper library to build Azure applications more quickly. We will have more samples and documentation to come very shortly.

Get a Windows Azure Trial Account

Try out a free Windows Azure account for 30 days with your Facebook app.
Go here, select "United States" and enter promocode FBPASS

You can watch our Channel 9 Videos @:
Getting started with the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook: http://bit.ly/getStartedAzureFB
Interview with Jim Zimmerman, CTO Thuzi and author of the Toolkit: http://bit.ly/InterviewJimZ

What does this Toolit include?

Windows Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

Set up an Azure Account Link
Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ntotten — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:35:13 GMT

Scheduled Jobs
Here is an example of how to schedule jobs using MEF as the Common Service Locator.

Common Service Locator
The Common Service Locator is used internally to build objects. You must setup common service locator to use your favorite IoC tool.

Here is an example using MEF

var catalog = new DirectoryCatalog(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory);

ServiceLocator.SetLocatorProvider(() =>
{
	var container = new CompositionContainer(catalog);
	return new MefServiceLocator(container);
});

You must set the Common Service Locator before you use anything in the CloudEngine. Note: You generally only need to do this for your worker role. The Azure Toolkit generally doesn't use the Common Service Locator for anything in a web role or other type of client application. You can find all the service locators that will work with your favorite IoC tool here under the heading "Service locator adapter implementations".

Queue Commands
Adding Messages Queues
Table Storage
Blob Storage

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ntotten — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:25:29 GMT

Scheduled Jobs
Here is an example of how to schedule jobs using MEF as the Common Service Locator.

Common Service Locator
Queue Commands
Adding Messages Queues
Table Storage
Blob Storage

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ntotten — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:22:49 GMT

Scheduled Jobs
Common Service Locator
Queue Commands
Adding Messages Queues
Table Storage
Blob Storage

New Comment on "Documentation"

RichardAlan — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:55:17 GMT

I downloaded the repository. It's great software and exactly what I am looking for. I guess hundred and hundreds of hours must have gone into its development. However please can you add some samples on how we can use the software. The only documentation I see does not do your great product justice and looking at the documentation alone I would never use your code. I managed to get some ideas on how to create a table and add a record to a table but please please can you create some examples on how we can get data from a table using IAzureTable<> get() or getall() .. Thanks

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jimzim — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:50:51 GMT

Windows Azure Toolkit

Welcome to the Windows Azure Toolkit. Originally this toolkit was built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft to give the community a good starter kit for getting Facebook apps up and running in Windows Azure. Since then we have worked with Microsoft to get the Azure samples running in the Facebook C# SDK http://facebooksdk.codeplex.com and have made this toolkit more of a helper library to build Azure applications more quickly. We will have more samples and documentation to come very shortly.

Get a Windows Azure Trial Account

Try out a free Windows Azure account for 30 days with your Facebook app.
Go here, select "United States" and enter promocode FBPASS

What does this Toolit include?

Windows Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

Set up an Azure Account Link
Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server

Updated Wiki: Home

jimzim — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:49:40 GMT

Windows Azure Toolkit

Try out a free Windows Azure account for 30 days with your Facebook app.
Go here, select "United States" and enter promocode FBPASS

What does this Toolit include?

Windows Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

Set up an Azure Account Link
Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server

Updated Wiki: Home

jimzim — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:24:16 GMT

Windows Azure Toolkit

What does this Toolit include?

Windows Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

Set up an Azure Account Link
Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server

Updated Wiki: Home

jimzim — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 06:17:49 GMT

Windows Azure Toolkit

We are in the process of migrating the facebook example to the Facebook C# SDK and making this library all about Azure helpers.

Welcome to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook. This toolkit was built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft to give the community a good starter kit for getting Facebook apps up and running in Windows Azure. Facebook apps hosted in Azure provide a flexible and scalable cloud computing platform for the smallest and largest of Facebook applications. Whether you have millions of users or just a few thousand, the Facebook Azure Toolit helps you to build your app correctly so that if your app is virally successful, you won't have to architect it again. You will just need to increase the number of instances you are using, then you are done scaling. :)

DISCLAIMER: This toolkit does not demonstrate how to create a facebook application. It is assumed that you already know how to do that or are willing to learn how to do that. there are plenty of links below on how to do this. Here is one, Link that is also listed below that helps explain how to set up an app and there are plenty of sample in the Facebook Developers Toolkit.

You can watch our Channel 9 Videos @:
Getting started with the Windows Azure Tollkit for Facebook: http://bit.ly/getStartedAzureFB
Interview with Jim Zimmerman, CTO Thuzi abd author of the Toolkit: http://bit.ly/InterviewJimZ

What does this Toolit include?

Asp.Net MVC 2 Link
Windows Azure Software Development Kit (February 2010) Link
AutoMapper Link
Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

Set up a facebook developers account Link
Set up an iframe facebook application Link
Set up an Azure Account Link
Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Getting Setup and Running Locally

Create local database using the dbscript.sql found in the AzureFacebook.Data.Sql project
Change connection strings in the app.config in AzureFacebook.WorkerRole.csproj and AzureFacebook.Data.Sql.csproj
Set up facebook app and have callback url point to http://localhost:81/ 127.0.0.1 will not be accepted in facebook.
Open up the web.config and modify the following keys in the appSettings to match what is in your facebook app: APIKey, Secret, Callback, Suffix, and AppUrl

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server

Updated Wiki: Home

jimzim — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 06:17:21 GMT

Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook

<b>We are in the process of migrating the facebook example to the Facebook C# SDK and making this library all about Azure helpers.</b>

Welcome to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook. This toolkit was built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft to give the community a good starter kit for getting Facebook apps up and running in Windows Azure. Facebook apps hosted in Azure provide a flexible and scalable cloud computing platform for the smallest and largest of Facebook applications. Whether you have millions of users or just a few thousand, the Facebook Azure Toolit helps you to build your app correctly so that if your app is virally successful, you won't have to architect it again. You will just need to increase the number of instances you are using, then you are done scaling. :)

DISCLAIMER: This toolkit does not demonstrate how to create a facebook application. It is assumed that you already know how to do that or are willing to learn how to do that. there are plenty of links below on how to do this. Here is one, Link that is also listed below that helps explain how to set up an app and there are plenty of sample in the Facebook Developers Toolkit.

You can watch our Channel 9 Videos @:
Getting started with the Windows Azure Tollkit for Facebook: http://bit.ly/getStartedAzureFB
Interview with Jim Zimmerman, CTO Thuzi abd author of the Toolkit: http://bit.ly/InterviewJimZ

What does this Toolit include?

Asp.Net MVC 2 Link
Windows Azure Software Development Kit (February 2010) Link
AutoMapper Link
Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

Set up a facebook developers account Link
Set up an iframe facebook application Link
Set up an Azure Account Link
Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Getting Setup and Running Locally

Create local database using the dbscript.sql found in the AzureFacebook.Data.Sql project
Change connection strings in the app.config in AzureFacebook.WorkerRole.csproj and AzureFacebook.Data.Sql.csproj
Set up facebook app and have callback url point to http://localhost:81/ 127.0.0.1 will not be accepted in facebook.
Open up the web.config and modify the following keys in the appSettings to match what is in your facebook app: APIKey, Secret, Callback, Suffix, and AppUrl

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server

Updated Wiki: Home

jimzim — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 06:14:22 GMT

Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook

What does this Toolit include?

Asp.Net MVC 2 Link
Windows Azure Software Development Kit (February 2010) Link
AutoMapper Link
Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

Set up a facebook developers account Link
Set up an iframe facebook application Link
Set up an Azure Account Link
Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Getting Setup and Running Locally

Create local database using the dbscript.sql found in the AzureFacebook.Data.Sql project
Change connection strings in the app.config in AzureFacebook.WorkerRole.csproj and AzureFacebook.Data.Sql.csproj
Set up facebook app and have callback url point to http://localhost:81/ 127.0.0.1 will not be accepted in facebook.
Open up the web.config and modify the following keys in the appSettings to match what is in your facebook app: APIKey, Secret, Callback, Suffix, and AppUrl

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server

Updated Wiki: Home

GuntherL — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:47:41 GMT

Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook

Welcome to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook. This toolkit was built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft to give the community a good starter kit for getting Facebook apps up and running in Windows Azure. Facebook apps hosted in Azure provide a flexible and scalable cloud computing platform for the smallest and largest of Facebook applications. Whether you have millions of users or just a few thousand, the Facebook Azure Toolit helps you to build your app correctly so that if your app is virally successful, you won't have to architect it again. You will just need to increase the number of instances you are using, then you are done scaling. :)

DISCLAIMER: This toolkit does not demonstrate how to create a facebook application. It is assumed that you already know how to do that or are willing to learn how to do that. there are plenty of links below on how to do this. Here is one, Link that is also listed below that helps explain how to set up an app and there are plenty of sample in the Facebook Developers Toolkit.

NOTE: You must use Visual Studio 2010 RC to open the project.

You can watch our Channel 9 Videos @:
Getting started with the Windows Azure Tollkit for Facebook: http://bit.ly/getStartedAzureFB
Interview with Jim Zimmerman, CTO Thuzi abd author of the Toolkit: http://bit.ly/InterviewJimZ

What does this Toolit include?

Facebook Developers Toolkit Link
Ninject 2.0 for Dependency Injection Link
Asp.Net MVC 2 Link
Windows Azure Software Development Kit (February 2010) Link
AutoMapper Link
Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

Set up a facebook developers account Link
Set up an iframe facebook application Link
Set up an Azure Account Link
Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Getting Setup and Running Locally

Create local database using the dbscript.sql found in the AzureFacebook.Data.Sql project
Change connection strings in the app.config in AzureFacebook.WorkerRole.csproj and AzureFacebook.Data.Sql.csproj
Set up facebook app and have callback url point to http://localhost:81/ 127.0.0.1 will not be accepted in facebook.
Open up the web.config and modify the following keys in the appSettings to match what is in your facebook app: APIKey, Secret, Callback, Suffix, and AppUrl

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server

Updated Wiki: Home

GuntherL — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:28:54 GMT

Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook

Welcome to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook. This toolkit was built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft to give the community a good starter kit for getting Facebook apps up and running in Windows Azure. Facebook apps hosted in Azure provide a flexible and scalable cloud computing platform for the smallest and largest of Facebook applications. Whether you have millions of users or just a few thousand, the Facebook Azure Toolit helps you to build your app correctly so that if your app is virally successful, you won't have to architect it again. You will just need to increase the number of instances you are using, then you are done scaling. :)

DISCLAIMER: This toolkit does not demonstrate how to create a facebook application. It is assumed that you already know how to do that or are willing to learn how to do that. there are plenty of links below on how to do this. Here is one, Link that is also listed below that helps explain how to set up an app and there are plenty of sample in the Facebook Developers Toolkit.

NOTE: You must use Visual Studio 2010 RC to open the project.

What does this Toolit include?

Facebook Developers Toolkit Link
Ninject 2.0 for Dependency Injection Link
Asp.Net MVC 2 Link
Windows Azure Software Development Kit (February 2010) Link
AutoMapper Link
Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

Set up a facebook developers account Link
Set up an iframe facebook application Link
Set up an Azure Account Link
Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Getting Setup and Running Locally

Create local database using the dbscript.sql found in the AzureFacebook.Data.Sql project
Change connection strings in the app.config in AzureFacebook.WorkerRole.csproj and AzureFacebook.Data.Sql.csproj
Set up facebook app and have callback url point to http://localhost:81/ 127.0.0.1 will not be accepted in facebook.
Open up the web.config and modify the following keys in the appSettings to match what is in your facebook app: APIKey, Secret, Callback, Suffix, and AppUrl

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server

Updated Wiki: Home

GuntherL — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:44:32 GMT

Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook

Welcome to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook. This toolkit was built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft to give the community a good starter kit for getting Facebook apps up and running in Windows Azure. Facebook apps hosted in Azure provide a flexible and scalable cloud computing platform for the smallest and largest of Facebook applications. Whether you have millions of users or just a few thousand, the Facebook Azure Toolit helps you to build your app correctly so that if your app is virally successful, you won't have to architect it again. You will just need to increase the number of instances you are using, then you are done scaling. :)

DISCLAIMER: This toolkit does not demonstrate how to create a facebook application. It is assumed that you already know how to do that or are willing to learn how to do that. there are plenty of links below on how to do this. Here is one, Link that is also listed below that helps explain how to set up an app and there are plenty of sample in the Facebook Developers Toolkit.

NOTE: You must use Visual Studio 2010 RC to open the project.

What does this Toolit include?

Facebook Developers Toolkit Link
Ninject 2.0 for Dependency Injection Link
Asp.Net MVC 2 Link
Windows Azure Software Development Kit (February 2010) Link
AutoMapper Link
Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

Set up a facebook developers account Link
Set up an iframe facebook application Link
Set up an Azure Account Link
Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Getting Setup and Running Locally

Create local database using the dbscript.sql found in the AzureFacebook.Data.Sql project
Change connection strings in the app.config in AzureFacebook.WorkerRole.csproj and AzureFacebook.Data.Sql.csproj
Set up facebook app and have callback url point to http://localhost:81/ 127.0.0.1 will not be accepted in facebook.
Open up the web.config and modify the following keys in the appSettings to match what is in your facebook app: APIKey, Secret, Callback, Suffix, and AppUrl

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server

Updated Wiki: Documentation

jimzim — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:38:17 GMT

Examples

Here is an example of how to use the TableRepository<T>. When you initialize the class, it will automagically create your table in table storage if it is not already created. It will use the name of the entity class and create the table with that name and properties of that class.

  public class AddCommentCommand
    {
        const string PartitionKey = "HelloAzure";

        readonly TableRepository<CommentEntity> _commentRepository;
        public AddCommentCommand()
        {
            _commentRepository = new TableRepository<CommentEntity>();
        }

        public void Execute(Comment comment)
        {
            _commentRepository.Insert(comment.MapToTableData());
            _commentRepository.Commit();

        }

   }

}

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jimzim — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:37:28 GMT

  public class AddCommentCommand
    {
        const string PartitionKey = "HelloAzure";

        readonly TableRepository<CommentEntity> _commentRepository;
        public AddCommentCommand()
        {
            _commentRepository = new TableRepository<CommentEntity>();
        }

        public void Execute(Comment comment)
        {
            _commentRepository.Insert(comment.MapToTableData());
            _commentRepository.Commit();

        }

   }

}

Updated Wiki: Home

jimzim — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:28:56 GMT

Facebook Azure Toolkit

Welcome to the Facebook Azure Toolit. This toolkit was built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft to give the community a good starter kit for getting Facebook apps up and running in Windows Azure. Facebook apps hosted in Azure provide a flexible and scalable cloud computing platform for the smallest and largest of Facebook applications. Whether you have millions of users or just a few thousand, the Facebook Azure Toolit helps you to build your app correctly so that if your app is virally successful, you won't have to architect it again. You will just need to increase the number of instances you are using, then you are done scaling. :)

DISCLAIMER: This toolkit does not demonstrate how to create a facebook application. It is assumed that you already know how to do that or are willing to learn how to do that. there are plenty of links below on how to do this. Here is one, Link that is also listed below that helps explain how to set up an app and there are plenty of sample in the Facebook Developers Toolkit.

NOTE: You must use Visual Studio 2010 RC to open the project.

What does this Toolit include?

Facebook Developers Toolkit Link
Ninject 2.0 for Dependency Injection Link
Asp.Net MVC 2 Link
Windows Azure Software Development Kit (February 2010) Link
AutoMapper Link
Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

Set up a facebook developers account Link
Set up an iframe facebook application Link
Set up an Azure Account Link
Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Getting Setup and Running Locally

Create local database using the dbscript.sql found in the AzureFacebook.Data.Sql project
Change connection strings in the app.config in AzureFacebook.WorkerRole.csproj and AzureFacebook.Data.Sql.csproj
Set up facebook app and have callback url point to http://localhost:81/ 127.0.0.1 will not be accepted in facebook.
Open up the web.config and modify the following keys in the appSettings to match what is in your facebook app: APIKey, Secret, Callback, Suffix, and AppUrl

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server

Updated Wiki: Home

jimzim — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:48:46 GMT

Facebook Azure Toolkit

What does this Toolit include?

Facebook Developers Toolkit Link
Ninject 2.0 for Dependency Injection Link
Asp.Net MVC 2 Link
Windows Azure Software Development Kit (February 2010) Link
AutoMapper Link
Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

Set up a facebook developers account Link
Set up an iframe facebook application Link
Set up an Azure Account Link
Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Getting Setup and Running Locally

Create local database using the dbscript.sql found in the AzureFacebook.Data.Sql project
Change connection strings in the app.config in AzureFacebook.WorkerRole.csproj and AzureFacebook.Data.Sql.csproj
Set up facebook app and have callback url point to http://localhost:81/ 127.0.0.1 will not be accepted in facebook.
Open up the web.config and modify the following keys in the appSettings to match what is in your facebook app: APIKey, Secret, Callback, Suffix, and AppUrl

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server