Doing a fetch-attributes on a container using SAS

I’ve bumped into a funny Windows Azure Storage API feature lately.

I was trying to read / write the meta data of a blob-container using a Shared Access Signature (SAS) and got a 404 Resource Not Found.

Well, after flipping my algorithm upside down quite a few times I considered that was by designed.

It is confirmed, it is by...

Shared Access Signature

I’ve been spinning by head around to understand how to use this Azure Storage concept for quite a while, so I’ve decided to share my findings.

The most useful web resource I found was this blog entry.  Here I’m gona give a less API-driven approach, which is faster as long as you know which containers / blobs you want...

Dev, Staging & Production in Windows Azure

I finally got an answer about the different environments in Windows Azure on the Cloud Cover Channel 9 show.  Apparently my Fabio Avatar was quite popular and helped to be selected!

I thought I would blog out their nuggets of wisdom as they are quite good guidance and I haven’t seen it anywhere on the web.

ASP.NET + WIF article

Here’s an MSDN article about how to integrate WIF into an ASP.NET application:  Passive Authentication for ASP.NET with WIF.

It doesn’t talk about ADFS it goes into the details of the configuration of WIF.  That’s very interesting since the STS Wizard generates a bunch of configuration but no explanation on what is doing what.

Expended feature set in Access Control Service (AppFabric LABS)

Microsoft just released a new feature set on top of Access Control Service (ACS).  It is currently in “incubation” in AppFabric Labs.  The Azure Labs are charge-free developer previews of features.  They should eventually move to “production” with charge patterns.

You can see a quick (5 minutes) demo of it on Wade Wegner blog’s.  Wade is a Microsoft Technical...