Ok, here’s partial solution to the problem of restarting worker roles within an Azure Computing Cloud. As suggested by Daniel C. Wang, I’ve tried something that you normally never do in an application – throwing unhandled exceptions. When you launch the Development Fabric by clicking F5 (with the debugger attached) any unhandled exception is intercepted by the IDE. However, …
One of the topics that I’ve never covered in this blog is about developing data-mining and business analytics applications. Especially, the analytics part (which happened to have popularity with terms like Artificial Intelligence or Neural Networks) which is one of the most curious implementation fields in the area of software development. If you are unfamiliar with the subject …
I’ve finally got time to study Windows Azure a bit more tonight. The task to achieve during this session was simple: reliably execute arbitrary code against the running cloud without even touching the Development Fabric. This could be useful, for example, in automated benchmarking of the evolutionary algorithms that is fired by the CC.NET integration …
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