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  • Sharing private blobs

    In the last couple of weeks, I've been spending quite a bit of time learning more about Windows Azure Blob Storage. Two questions I wanted to answers to were "How do I share private BLOBs with othe...

  • Using a custom PHP installation

    One feature of the scaffolds that are in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP is that all rely on the Web Platform Installer to install PHP when a project is deployed. This is great until I want my applic...

  • Handling Sessions with SQL Azure

    In my last post, I looked at the session handling functionality that is built into the Windows Azure SDK for PHP, which uses Azure Tables or Azure Blobs for storing session data. As I wrote that p...

  • Handling Sessions with Table storage

    This article was originally posted by Brian Swan on his blog Windows Azure's Silver Lining One of the challenges in building a distributed web application is in handling sessions. When you have m...

  • Accessing Service Configuration values from PHP

    Pre-requisites Setup the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Synopsis The Windows Azure Service Configuration file is a powerful place to store configuration information about your service and applicati...

  • Using the Windows Azure SDK for PHP

    Pre-requisites Setup the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Synopsis The Windows Azure SDK for PHP is not only used for creating deployment packages, it also contains a full library to access Windows A...

  • Diagnostics–Part II

    Reposted from Brian Swan's Windows Azure's Silver Lining blog In part 1 of this two part series, I showed how you can use a configuration file (the diagnostics.wadcfg file) to configure Azure dia...

  • Diagnostics–Part I

    In this post, I'll look at why getting diagnostic data for applications in the cloud is important for all applications (not just PHP), provide a short overview of what Windows Azure Diagnostics is,...

  • Enable Remote Desktop

    This article was originally posted by Brian Swan on his blog Windows Azure's Silver Lining If you are someone who is experimenting with PHP on Azure (or even if you have some experience in this a...

  • Setup the Windows Azure Development Environment manually

    Windows Azure offers a "local cloud development platform", which lets you test and debug on your local Windows machine before you actually deploy to the cloud. This article explains how you can man...

  • Using Scaffolds

    Pre-requisites Getting the Windows Azure Pre-Requisites Automatic installation with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer Manual installation Setup the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Synopsi...

  • Packaging Applications

    Recommended Reading Understanding Windows Azure Setup the Windows Azure SDK for PHP How to obtain samples used in the tutorials Synopsis The Windows Azure SDK for PHP provides a simple comma...

  • Obtaining the sample files used in the tutorials

    A significant amount of code is used in the articles on this site. For your convenience all of the sample code has been placed in a repository on GitHub. Most of the articles on this website will r...

  • Setup the Windows Azure SDK for PHP

    Pre-Requisites Getting the Windows Azure local development pre-requisites Automatic Installation with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer Manual Installation Synopsis This article...

  • Scaling PHP applications on Windows Azure Part IV: Using worker roles for automated scaling

    Recommended pre-read Setup the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Build and deploy a Windows Azure PHP application Scaling PHP Applications on Windows Azure Part I: Performance Metrics Scaling PHP Ap...

  • Scaling PHP Applications on Windows Azure Part III: Performance Monitor

    Recommended pre-read Setup the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Build and deploy a Windows Azure PHP application Scaling PHP Applications on Windows Azure Part I: Performance Metrics Scaling PHP Ap...

  • Scaling PHP Applications on Windows Azure Part I: Performance Metrics

    Recommended pre-read Setup the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Build and deploy a Windows Azure PHP application Introduction of the "Deal of the Day" - A PHP scaling sample application Synopsis O...

  • Scaling PHP Applications on Windows Azure Part II: Role Management

    Recommended pre-read Setup the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Build and deploy a Windows Azure PHP application Scaling PHP Applications on Windows Azure Part I: Performance Metrics Synopsis This...

  • Getting the Windows Azure Pre-Requisites via the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 3.0

    In this tutorial I am going to walk you through the steps required to setup Windows Azure Pre-Requisites Via the automatic Web Platform Installer. See Getting the Windows Azure Pre-Requisites Via...

  • Tutorial - OData Drupal Module Installation

    Recommended pre-read Deploying Drupal 7 to the cloud using the Windows Azure Companion Today I am going to show you the new OData support module for Drupal. In case you have not played with it...

  • Tutorial - Using Worker Roles for Simple Background Processing

    Recommended pre-read Build and deploy a Windows Azure PHP application Tutorial - Using Queue Service There are many common scenarios in web development that require processing of information,...

  • Tutorial - Using Table Storage

    Recommended Reading Understanding Windows Azure Setup the local development environment Obtaining the sample files used in the tutorials Synopsis This tutorial will show the fundamentals of...

  • Tutorial - Using Blob Storage

    Recommended Reading Understanding Windows Azure Setup the local development environment Obtaining the sample files used in the tutorials Synopsis This tutorial will show the fundamentals of...

  • Tutorial - Using the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse with PHP

    Updated: 12/28/10 - added Recommended pre-read Updated: 1/6/11 - updated screenshots and instructions, matching the new version supporting Windows Azure SDK 1.3. Recommended pre-read Setup the...

  • Tutorial - Using Queue Service

    Recommended Reading Understanding Windows Azure Setup the local development environment Obtaining the sample files used in the tutorials Synopsis This tutorial will show the fundamentals of...

  • Tutorial - Using Worker Roles for Simple Background Processing

    Author: Craig Kitterman Date: 01/04/2011 Recommended pre-read Deploying Your First PHP Application to Windows Azure Tutorial - Using the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Tutorial - Using Queue Servi...