Wallace B. McClure

Original Url: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2009/04/28/asp-net-podcast-show-140-asp-net-4-0-ajax-databinding.aspx

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I've been working on this application to run on Windows Azure.  I wanted to share a few things that I have learned.  I'm not sure if I have missed these being covered else where, but I want to bring them up here for my own knowledge.  I find that I remember things much better if I blog them than if I put them on twitter.

I've been working on setting up my VPC for Azure's March CTP.  This is a fresh install.  I had everything installed.  Here are a couple of gotchas that you have to remember:

I used C# and WCF, but I could have just as easily used an ASMX web service.  This code is fairly simple.  No I didn't write it initially.  I found it online (Hey, we all have to start somewhere).  I massaged it a little to fit my needs and boom, here it is.  I have decided to leave the comments for the original code sample in the post.  Note: This code will not run as listed.  You have to have a password.  This code has that as a shared variable, but I'm not showing that to you, seriously.  I hope that this is of some help to you.

Yeah, so some of my friends asked me why I am not using a twitter library instead of calling the api directly.  Yeah, I'm wondering that to.  Seriously, the reason why I am doing that is that .net libraries to call out to twitter that I tried under VS 2008, did not work with Windows Azure. These libraries seemed to generate a security exception.  Given azure's security requirements being a little more than regular asp.net, I decided to just drop the search for a library and make my calls on my own.  Not sure if its a good decision or not, but its what I did.