A common problem I’ve found when hosting WordPress on Microsoft Azure is that you’re quite often missing the browser cache settings. Even if you’re using a plug-in like W3 Total Cache and set the browser caching settings on, you’ll find that it doesn’t work. The reason is that most wordpress plugins pretty much assume you’re […]
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How To…Verify Email Address: Setting Up SendGrid on Windows Azure
In my previous article about how to verify an email address in ASP.NET MVC on Windows Azure, I covered changing your model and database with entity framework code first migrations. This leaves several more steps to complete: 1. Amend the model to allow for storing of emails and verification information. 2. Apply these model changes […]
How To…Verify Email Address: Entity Framework Code First Migrations
A common feature of web apps user registration is to to make users verify email address, normally by clicking a link sent to that email address. Accomplishing this with ASP.NET MVC on Windows Azure is pretty straight forward, but does require a number of steps: Amend the model to allow for storing of emails and […]
Connecting SQL Management Studio to SQL Azure
One of the first things I tend to do when working with databases on Windows Azure is connect to them from my development machine. This tutorial will walk through the relatively simple task of connecting SQL Management Studio (SSMS) to SQL Azure in order to ease management and querying. This is the 3rd article in […]
Connecting an ASP.NET MVC Web App with SQL Azure
I thought I’d follow up my previous article on how to create and deploy an asp.net mvc web app to azure by writing about how to get that mvc web app and connect it to SQL Azure. SQL Azure is Microsoft’s SQL database hosted in the cloud. It is a full relational database and is […]
