March 2013
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Simple terminal for your Azure Website
This guide will help you run server-side commands on your Azure Website hosting environment, it is very simple and useful and since it’s implemented in node.js, it’ll work on any (node) supporting OS (Windows / MAC / Linux).
First, you should install node.js if you don’t already have it (#whynot?).
Install KuduExec:
npm install kuduexec -g
Note: There’s also a .NET...
December 2012
3 posts
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Customizing site deployment based on site's app...
This is part 3 of 3 for Windows Azure Websites - Custom Deployments
Part 1 - Introduction to custom deployment
Part 2 - Custom script generator
Part 3 - Custom deployment using the custom script generator sample
In previous posts I talked about Windows Azure Website’s custom deployment feature and the tool to easily generate a deployment script, in this post I’ll do a...
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Windows Azure Websites - Custom Deployment Scripts...
This is part 2 of 3 for Windows Azure Websites - Custom Deployments
Part 1 - Introduction to custom deployment
Part 2 - Custom script generator
Part 3 - Custom deployment using the custom script generator sample
With Windows Azure Websites you can deploy your website by simply pushing your git repository, this will automatically deploy your website, and if you want to control...
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Custom Deployment Scripts For Windows Azure...
This is part 1 of 3 for Windows Azure Websites - Custom Deployments
Part 1 - Introduction to custom deployment
Part 2 - Custom script generator
Part 3 - Custom deployment using the custom script generator sample
The coolest feature on Windows Azure Websites is the ability to deploy your website using git.
Do a git push and bam you’re done and deployed within seconds.
The...
October 2012
2 posts
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My First Windows Store App - חדשות 8
Just published my first windows 8 app to the store, it is a news reader in Hebrew.
My App On The Windows Store
Basically it is an RSS feed reader for a specific set of feeds from different Israeli news sites.
To use it you currently have to login using your Microsoft account as it will save the current feeds you selected to follow on the main screen of the app.
Writing a Windows 8 app...
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Joined Tables View in Windows Azure Mobile...
Windows Azure Mobile Services is using SQL Azure as the backend, one of the benefits you have with a SQL database is the ability to join tables simply, but currently that ability is not manifested in an easy way through the server-side scripts or the client SDK of the mobile services.
So when I needed to get rows by joining 2 tables, I used this following simple solution.
In my case I had 2...
September 2012
1 post
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Custom Parameters in Azure Mobile Services
Consider the next scenario:
You have a Users table and you need to accommodate 2 different views
The user gets his own information which includes for example his email.
The user can get a list of all users’ names (and only names).
You can do the first simply with the provided samples where using a script you filter the READ users table query to only return the current...
August 2012
3 posts
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Azure Mobile Services - Admin Access
So you already took the first step and created your own Windows 8 App backend in Azure.
You’ve added windows live authentication and have your own Users table.
You’ve even added a couple of server-side scripts, for example to limit a read operation on your table to get only items related to the current authenticated user.
But now you want to have some administration control over...
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Azure Mobile Services - Admin Table Viewer Sample
In this post I’m going to write about building a simple Windows 8 app for administration of a Windows Azure mobile service.
This app will allow us to view all of our mobile service tables with added options to delete and edit rows.
Disclaimer: The code in my post will focus more on how to use the Windows Azure mobile services SDK to create administration apps and less on Windows 8 client...
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