I’ve spent the last few week, or so, reading through Azure in Action by Chris Hay and Brian H. Prince. This book is not yet published, so my copy was in the form of a PDF provided by the Manning Early Access Program (http://manning.com/about/meap).
The book is broken into parts, with 2-4 chapters per part:
Welcome to the cloud
Understanding the Azure service model
Running your site with web roles
Working with blob storage
Working with structured data
Doing work with messages
Each...
This is just a quick post to capture the outcome of about an hour’s worth of trial and error for me. Here’s a SQL Server table that contained data that my application needed: Of particular interest is the [Geocode] field, which holds a Geography instance (POINT) representing the location of a Facility. The [Geocode_Lat] and [Geocode_Lon] fields were from legacy requirements, and would be redundant when all is said and done. Trying to include a Geography field in my ActiveRecord entity proved to be a challenge. NHibernate has a Spatial extension, but setting it...