Azure: Hosting Service

I was planning to try deploying the DistributedSort example into Azure tonight, but failed at the first hurdle when I realised I had no Hosting service account – I have the .NET services. Hopefully one will turn up soon.

I’ve got the EchoService sample running (I had an out of date CTP ). I’m not curious if I could pump prices up to the cloud and get Silverlight clients to receive them in a timely fashion. Anyone got any Service Bus performance figures? The EchoService uses netTcpRelayBinding, but I want COMET?. Microsoft.ServiceBus assemble is also not Silverlight compatible Anyone at Microsoft care to comment?

Since I can only deploy a WF via XOML, to get an RFQ/S workflow working and put the limit/credit checking into the cloud I’d need to deploy C# logic into a WebRole or WorkerRole? The VS CloudWorkflow project appears to only allow the following cloud activities: CloudHttpReceive, CloudHttpSend, CloudServiceBusSend, CloudXPathRead, CloudXPathUpdate, CloudDelay, plus a few standard WF 3.0 activities. Why no CloudServiceBusReceive?

So overall it’s looking difficult to build an Azure RIA trading application given the current Azure CTP

Silverlight hosted on Windows Azure

~ by mdavey on January 7, 2009.