WordPress connecting to SQL Azure

Microsoft makes WordPress on Azure easier, but a tricky situation arises when we need to use MsSQL instead of MySQL for WordPress on Azure. I recently did a project that we migrated a website where wordpress connected to MySQL DB to WordPress, then connected to MsSQL DB. I made many mistakes and encountered many issues … Continued

Using Azure Worker Role as Email Processing Server

Windows Azure enables you to be more creative by leveraging web/worker roles, parallelism, queuing, service bus, distributed cache, and a lot more. I just want to share an easy way to delegate the email component to Azure Worker Role and Azure Queue storage. Sending email is a very basic and common scenario for web application. … Continued

Develop WordPress on Azure Made Easy

Developing WordPress on Azure now is quite easy, thanks to the rich tools provided by Microsoft. Based on my recent experience, in this post I will highlight what needs to be done to easily develop WordPress on Azure. Prerequisites Have an