Emmanuel's Screencasts

This is part 1 of 2 screencasts I recorded that shows a Microsoft .NET developer how to use the new Windows Azure CloudDrive feature -

• For Part 2, Creating a Web Role that mounts the CloudDrive from Azure Storage and reads text files (Part 2 of 2, 22 minutes) – click here.
• For the Summary entry on blog.ehuna.org, click here.

In this video I go over the details on how to create a VHD file in Windows 7 and the code you need to upload it as a Page Blob in Windows Azure Storage.

I found the code that uploads the VHD to a Page Blob to Azure Storage in the cloud on Thomas Conte’s MSDN blog – thanks Thomas!  Also, thanks to Neil Mackenzie on the Azure forums who helped me out with many issues I ran into.

For more articles, screencasts and tips check out www.ehuna.org – you can also follow me on twitter.com/ehuna

See below for more details on what's covered in the screencast and download the Visual Studio 2010 VB.NET projects here:

  http://blog.ehuna.org/files/Visual-Studio-Solution-AzureSpeed1.zip (134 KB)

This is part 2 of 2 screencasts I recorded that helps a Microsoft .NET developer use the new Windows Azure CloudDrive feature -

• For Part 1, Creating a VHD and Uploading it to Azure Storage (Part 1 of 2, 30 minutes) – click here.
• For the Summary entry on blog.ehuna.org, click here.

Once the VHD file has been uploaded to Azure Storage you can use the Azure SDK to cache it in your web role instance and mount it - you then have a NTFS hard-drive in the cloud where you can use the standard System.IO classes to read and write files. 

For more articles, screencasts and tips check out www.ehuna.org - follow me on twitter.com/ehuna

See below for details on what's covered in the video, and download the Visual Studio 2010 RC VB.NET sample projects used in the videos here:

  http://blog.ehuna.org/files/Visual-Studio-Solution-AzureSpeed1.zip (134 KB)