Since we’ve deployed our ScrumWall application from a pure hosted solution to a cloud based application, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss how we went around moving and deploying the code to Azure.  As Marcus has discussed the architecture of ScrumWall (Part 1) we’ll dive straight into how we got ScrumWall up and running within a few hours. ScrumWall does have a web application that hosts the Silverlight control which does the necessary authorisation, authentication and hosts the ... [Read more]

Here at Dot Net Solutions, we have been developing a Silverlight version of a Scrum wall for a while now. We are advocates of both Scrum and XP for project delivery. You can read more about the project to date here: http://www.dotnetsolutions.ltd.uk/approach/scrumwall/. We are also keenly using the Azure Services Platform, most notably with our Wikipedia explorer, which was also ported to Azure. Read more about this here: http://www.dotnetsolutions.ltd.uk/evidence/wikiexplorer/. There are so ... [Read more]

When creating new Azure Web Roles, Visual Studio will automatically create a new project for your actual ASP.NET web application.  While this is perfect for demos and short projects, most users will want to use an existing web application for Azure.  However, if you try and add your existing web application as a web role, the cloud service project will not pick up your web application.  You can see that in the image below: The fix for this is pretty trivial.  Right click on your web appli ... [Read more]