Importing text files into a database is a common scenario. It gets more interesting though when you are required to import log files generated by ASP.NET’s health monitoring. We recently wrote a web application that receives and logs information via HTTP handlers. The logging was achieved using ASP.NET’s health monitoring. We wanted additional information to be included in the log entries however, so we implemented a custom event type by extending the WebRequestEvent base class. This allowe ... [Read more]

With the release of Azure, ScrumWall needed to be updated from the sample data access code to the new API. Cloud Storage Account The first change that we made was the addition of CloudStorageAccount to handle access to storage. Instantiating a storage account requires that a configuration setting publisher has been set. We do this with the SetConfigurationSettingPublisher method. It takes a single parameter, which is a wrapper delegate for the configuration reading and handling of the confi ... [Read more]