Windows Azure Integration Pack

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Feel free to suggest stories and vote for the existing ones to help us determine what will go in the release of the Enterprise Library 5.0 Windows Azure Integration Pack.

Please note this list may not always represent the actual priority list for the patterns & practices development team. It also does not constitute any commitments.

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  1. AutoscaleDatapoints table has a configurable retention policy.

    AutoscaleDatapoints table needs to be cleaned up periodically for a running service. A configurable retention policy for table AutoscaleDatapoints is needed.

    3 votes
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    • NetSqlAzman integration

      Did you remember Security AppBlock? This block remains in future versions?

      Did you remember AzMan?

      For me this is the right hand to design security requeriments for applications. It could be better for use/develop and for design security.

      Thanks

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      • Auto-scaling for On-Premise applications

        Is there any plan for for Auto-scaling on on-premise applications in Autoscaling Application Block instead of focusing a lot on Azure platform as we still have a lot of applications on on-premise servers hosting web applications, windows service applications and SQL Server 2005/2008?

        4 votes
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          under review  ·  1 comment  ·  Auto-scaling  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Access to Diagnostics Agent

          The diagnostics agent is currently an distant service from which you can only retrieve data by sending it requests.
          What I would like to see is that I can subscribe to either queues and topics or directly subscribe to an event which allows me to capture the diagnostics data as it happens. I would also like to see a solid logging API which reports directly to the diagnostics agent rather that to a custom data store. This allows me to to get unified diagnostics info which covers server, service and custom code messages.
          It also allows for 3rd party service…

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            0 comments  ·  Diagnostics  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • Multi-tenancy framework

            An API/ framework that makes it easy to implement multi-tenancy in a Windows Azure application. Not only from a code standpoint of view, but also a multi-tenant database.

            20 votes
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            • Metering of usage per user/ customer

              An API, to find out who used which Windows Azure resources, which provides important information for billing a customer.

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              • Diagnostics: Best Practices / Trend Analyzer

                As a developer I would like the Azure service to be able to analyze my application and make recommendation for performance and productivity improvements based upon usage and trends.

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                • Backup and restore data

                  As a developer, I would like to have an API to backup and restore selected tables and databases.

                  15 votes
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                  • SkypeKit web service

                    As a developer, I would like a Skype Kit web service on Azure to make use of Skype technology.

                    7 votes
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                    • Upload selected files and folders

                      As a developer, I would like to upload selected folders and files to Azure instead of deploying the full solution to Azure. For example when you need to replace a small image or other resource file.

                      11 votes
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                      • Automatic purge to blobs

                        I need the ability to automatically purge WADLogs to blob storage (hourly or daily - one blob per interval)

                        8 votes
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                        • Voting

                          Sometimes applications need to determine wheather to take certain action or not by voting on it. All nodes involved need to be able to vote, and the master decides on the final action based on the responses.

                          2 votes
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                          • Distributed synchronization

                            For complex application, an idea of distributed synchronization mechanism should be implemented. Especially in the case of Enterprise Applications, one would very often need one of N roles to take ownership of a resource (e.g. as a Master Role).

                            10 votes
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                            • Auto-scaling: config: programmatic

                              As a developer, I want to have programmatic configuration support via fluent interface for the rulesets and auto-scaling operations.

                              22 votes
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                              • Data Access: TDD-friendly wrappers for Azure storage

                                As a developer, I want the data access block to help me accessing the Azure storage by providing TDD-friendly wrappers and interfaces that can easily be passed as dependencies to my own classes, and be able to mock/stub in my unit tests.

                                35 votes
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                                • Data Access: paging to specific page

                                  When paging through data that comes from the azure storage tables, I want the ability to navigate to a specific page.

                                  11 votes
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                                  • Data Access: paging

                                    As a developer, I want the data access block to help me with paging forward and backward through a result set that comes from azure storage tables.

                                    30 votes
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                                    • Data Access: Continuation tokens management

                                      As a developer, I want the data access block to handle page contiuation tokens for me when the server returns less than the expected rows to me. Especially when the query passes over partition boundaries.

                                      8 votes
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                                      • Configuration from cscfg file

                                        As a developer I want to load my Enterprise Library configuration from a cscfg file.

                                        14 votes
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                                        • Configuration from service

                                          As a developer I want to load configuration information from a web service so that I can keep my configuration on-premises or in a different cloud or in some arbitrary location, not packaged in the look for proper name of unit of deployment.

                                          9 votes
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