Hello Everyone, I am Drew McDaniel from the Microsoft Azure team working on the Virtual Machines feature and have been working on it since the beginning. In this blog post, I will share some best practice guidelines to help you get the most out of your Azure Virtual Machines. These guidelines come straight out of customer feedback and cover some of...

Editor's Note: This post was written by Jaime Espinosa, Program Manageron the Azure Web Sites Team In the previous two blog post in this series about remote debugging Azure Web Sites we have seen how to connect your VS to Azure and taken a look inside how this works. In this 3rd and last piece of this series, we will look into some more advanced scenarios....

Take three minutes to take the 2014 Future of Cloud Survey Microsoft, along with North Bridge and Gigaom Research, and more than 60 industry collaborators are pleased to announce the 4th Annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey!  We are participating in this survey because your feedback on cloud computing is important to us and the industry.  Take three...

Editor's Note: This post was written by Jaime Espinosa, Program Manageron the Azure Web Sites Team In a previous post in this series, we have discovered remote debugging on Azure Web Sites and how to connect your visual studio to perform debugging. In order to fully utilize the remote debugging capabilities in Azure Web Sites, it is best to understand...

IaaS Virtual machines on Azure may be shut down in a number of ways, either via the Azure Management Portal, Azure Powershell cmdlets or CLI tools, or even by a user who is logged in interactively.  The Azure platform itself may even initiate a shutdown to perform platform maintenance.  The shutdown process for a Linux system running on bare metal on...

This post was written by Jaime Espinosa, Program Manager on the Azure Web Sites Team With the availability of Remote Debugging, Microsoft brings you a cohesive and unified web development experience from beginning to end.  Microsoft Visual Studio can connect and interact with the cloud as if the whole cloud is sitting right under your desk.  Web developers...