I was recently working on an app that needed to provide reporting functionality in addition to regular data entry. I blogged in the past about SSRS in Angular apps, and I used SSRS server reports (.rdl files) for that demo. This works really well on locally installed application, but to support SSRS on Azure requires …
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I was helping out a friend who is working on healthcare software. They would like to run the app on Azure. I am not sure how many of you have heard of HIPAA – Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It sets some rules for anyone who writes healthcare related software. One of the requirements …
In any decision process, there is a tipping point. As companies plan their cloud strategy, the tipping point of when to go to the cloud – and how – is mission critical. The scenario of dev/test is a simple first step into the public cloud. Telenor is a Norwegian telecommunications company who needed to upgrade …
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Since in our software due to pricing of SSRS on Azure we chose not to use that reporting solution, we decided to go with Crystal Reports. I already blogged about that once here. Since then I encountered a few more issues that I wanted to document. Copying Crystal JavaScript files worked for us for brand …
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Last week I did some more research into publishing to Azure from MSBuild. One of the requests we received is to keep virtual IP address (VIP) the same throughout publishing. I blogged on the subject before here. This code worked just fine, but it was replacing virtual IP every time when deployment was deleted and …
I have a project I am working on for the client that targets Azure. I wanted to move up to .NET 4.5 to take advantage on async/await keywords and other improvements. It is a an MVC 4 project. Of course in order to run .NET 4.5 on Azure, you have to update your project configuration. …
SQL Azure got a couple of new exciting features in the last upgrade a few weeks ago. Specifically I am talking about import/export abilities. For a while now it has been a bit painful to create a backup on SQL Azure database and store it either on premises or in the cloud. Azure migration wizard …
Last week I was faced with this exact problem in the title. As I was migrating an existing Silverlight application to run on Azure, I wanted to have a solution to the requirement that stated that the users must be able to upload files to the server and view them in the application. Previously, those …
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I was recently working on a ClickOnce application, that was part of a large business software solution hosted on Azure. I decided to host ClickOnce on Azure as well. Azure blob storage does not really support directory structure, it just supports single level of containers, then all other files (content) goes into those containers via …
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I have been working recently on a couple of applications that are going to be run on Windows Azure. Both are business applications and have a variety of reports incorporated into them. One was a brand new application , and we opted to use SQL Server reporting services in Azure for it. That was still …
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