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New Post: A few bugs I ran across...

ihenriksen — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:57:01 GMT

Thanks for reporting this. Would you mind sharing your patch with the community?

I will fix this in the next release, but I'm bogged down with other work these days, sry.

New Post: A few bugs I ran across...

ReedR — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:29:20 GMT

I’ve been using the ASPProviders code in a couple of my Azure projects and ran across a few bugs I’ll share here.

I’m not using session at all, I am using TableStorageProfileProvider, TableStorageRoleProvider, and TableStorageMembershipProvider. I noticed some time ago that user profile blobs were getting orphaned in the profileprovidercontainer. Digging into the DeleteProfiles, I found that it attempts to do a cleanup of the blob using a call to DeleteBlobsWithPrefix and tries to remove all the blobs that start with the user name. This has two major problems:
1) Deleting blobs that start with a username can potentially delete blobs of similarly named users. For instance, deleting “Jeff” would also delete profiles for “Jeffrey”, etc.
2) Blobs are identified via a call to ListBlobs that assumes the blob URI doesn’t contain a fully qualified URI – so the StartsWith always fails.
I re-worked ListBlobs to search for a “/” + ProfileBlobName and use Contains instead of StartsWith. I pass in the full blob profile name to cleanup and do not use the username (bad bad bad).

I also found an error in the logic to save profile information. It always saves a new blob and orphans the old one. I added a call to CreateOrUpdateUserAndProfile to delete the old profile blob before saving the new one.

New Post: AzureProviders is outdated with Oct 2012 v1.8 SDK (StorageClient has been replaced)

ihenriksen — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:12:33 GMT

Thank you for the heads-up. I will try to fix this when I have some spare time, unfortunatly I'm quite busy forward so if you have a patch I would appreciate you sharing it with the rest of the community.

New Post: AzureProviders is outdated with Oct 2012 v1.8 SDK (StorageClient has been replaced)

roachslayer — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:09:03 GMT

Breaking changes between Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient; and Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage;

I found it to be non-trivial to update AzureProviders because the breaking changes are everywhere. FYI.

New Post: Good starting point for creating a custom membership provider for an ASP.NET MVC app running in Azure?

ihenriksen — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:12:59 GMT

> From what I understand though, it's typically recommended to write your own custom membership provider with a schema tailored to your data model as opposed to employing the ASP.NET Profile system.

The nice thing with ASP.NET profiles is that it's already integrated with ASP.NET Membership and in AzureProviders it is automatically stored and retrieved from the Azure table storage. If you make your own schema you will have to also handle storage and retrieval of the data, serialization/deserialization of the data, and integration with the ASP.NET Membership provider. So, I conclude that there are many pro's and con's.

> Would AzureProviders be a recommended starting point for writing a custom membership provider for my MVC (4) application? Appreciate any advice :)

There are users of this project that have used AzureProveders with MVC, the user "edikt" has a review on the download page where he/she mentioned he/she has done just that. You could try to contact endikt via CodePlex, perhaps he/she can help you with this.

New Post: Good starting point for creating a custom membership provider for an ASP.NET MVC app running in Azure?

aknuds1 — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:42:35 GMT

I'm new to ASP.NET Membership and Azure, while I have some background in ASP.NET MVC. From what I understand though, it's typically recommended to write your own custom membership provider with a schema tailored to your data model as opposed to employing the ASP.NET Profile system.

Would AzureProviders be a recommended starting point for writing a custom membership provider for my MVC (4) application? Appreciate any advice :)

New Post: Is this the same as code.msdn.com providers... it seems out of date

JuanK — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:10:54 GMT

Great news, I will use this projecty maintained by community.

Tnx

New Post: Is this the same as code.msdn.com providers... it seems out of date

ihenriksen — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:44:09 GMT

No, this is not the same code as on msdn.com.

New Post: Azure Session State Provider.

ihenriksen — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:41:16 GMT

There is a physical limit in the Azure Table Storage of 1MB per row, and a limit of 64 Kb (Kilobytes) per string field.

Source:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179338.aspx

New Post: Azure Session State Provider.

kumbharvinayak — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:01:14 GMT

yes, got same issue on production but unfortunately I don't have that stack trace.

Earlier I was storing big object into session (containing user ID, First Name, Last Name and many more details) after that I tried putting only single integer value i.e. User ID, and got same issue on production.

Question : After adding value into session it encrypts and then stores into table storage which is a big encrypted value. Is this causing an error?

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I think this is becuase you are trying to store more than 255 characters in the Azure table storage, in the development environment there is an maximum limit of 255 characters per entity field. This is becuase everything is stored in MS SQL Server in developement envrionment which has this limit. In staging/production this error should not occur, if it still does then let me know and I will have a look at it again.

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New Post: Azure Session State Provider.

ihenriksen — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:04:31 GMT

I think this is becuase you are trying to store more than 255 characters in the Azure table storage, in the development environment there is an maximum limit of 255 characters per entity field. This is becuase everything is stored in MS SQL Server in developement envrionment which has this limit. In staging/production this error should not occur, if it still does then let me know and I will have a look at it again.

New Post: Azure Session State Provider.

kumbharvinayak — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:42:04 GMT

Here is the stack trace...

An error of error code: System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceRequestException has occured into MyAzureApp web role. An error occurred while processing this request.System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceClientException: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>

PropertyValueTooLarge

<message xml:lang="en-US">The property value is larger than allowed by the Table Service.

RequestId:f8fc4638-adad-452b-bd5a-aa8e33b2594d

Time:2012-02-13T05:00:38.3133923Z</message>

</error>

at System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceContext.SaveResult.<HandleBatchResponse>d__1e.MoveNext() at AzureTableStorage.AzureTableStorageDataSource.Update(SessionStateEntity itemToUpdate, MergeOption mergeOption) in C:\MyApp\VSS\MyAzureApp\AzureTableStorage\AzureTableStorageDataSource.cs:line 565

at MyAzureApp WebRole.Blll.AzureSessionStateProvider.SetAndReleaseItemExclusive(HttpContext context, String id, SessionStateStoreData item, Object lockId, Boolean newItem) in C:\MyApp\VSS\MyAzureApp \ MyAzureAppWebRole\Session Class\AzureSessionStateProvider.cs:line 352

at System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.OnReleaseState(Object source, EventArgs eventArgs)

at System.Web.HttpApplication.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()

at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously); TraceSource 'WebError' event

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From: ihenriksen

Could you show the entire exception and stack trace please.

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New Post: Azure Session State Provider.

ihenriksen — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:22:59 GMT

Could you show the entire exception and stack trace please.

New Post: Azure Session State Provider.

kumbharvinayak — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:08:48 GMT

Sometimes Azure Session State Provider shows "PropertyValueIsTooLarge" error. And this comes from AzureSessionStateProvider class. Can anybody tell how to solve this issue?

New Post: Is this the same as code.msdn.com providers... it seems out of date

clamont — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:35:41 GMT

I need session state in Azure Table. Should I use this code or the one located in http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Windows-Azure-ASPNET-03d5dc14

New Post: SQL Azure Provider

roachslayer — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:39:12 GMT

A quick update for anyone following this:

I have AzureProviders Membership provider working against SQL Express on my dev enviro, very easy with just a change the web.config:

replace this: name="AzureMembershipProvider" type="WebPages.Bll.AzureMembershipProvider"

with this: name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices"

Next, replace the custom profile and role providers with the default ASP.NET providers (see web.config of a new ASP.NET project that uses Membership). Be sure also to add these properties inside the <profile> section since AzureProviders uses these:

Now make sure a connection string to the memberhsip DB is of course added and correct, as follows:

...
</appSettings>
<connectionStrings>
<add name="ApplicationServices" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=ASPNETMembership;Integrated Security=SSPI;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>

I am looking at using SQL Azure JUST for Membership, but use ATS for everything else (sessions, etc) in AzureProviders. This would be useful because I have other software that I use to administer the membership data that points to the same SQL membership data store.

Note that on Azure, you must use the updated scripts in order for ASP.NET Membership to work on SQL Azure (see here or here).

New Post: MVC3

ihenriksen — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:01:52 GMT

The problem is that these are ASP.NET providers, this means they are tightly couples with the ASP.NET plumbings, I think you will be better off implementing your own providers, feel free to cannibalize anything you want from this project thought. This open source project may be a good start for you https://github.com/TroyGoode/MembershipStarterKit

New Post: MVC3

cipherz — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:06:54 GMT

I understand how to use MVC with azure as I'm doing that currently. I want to use the tables that you created and the provider dlls in my mvc application. Do you think that's possible or are your providers so geared towards ASP.Net web forms that it would not be worth the trouble?

New Post: MVC3

ihenriksen — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:59:36 GMT

I'm sorry, but no. Adding MVC would be a major change to the project.

There is a guide to Azure with MVC3 with sample code here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive/2011/05/14/asp-net-mvc3-web-role-deployment-in-windows-azure-sdk-1-4-0-detailed-steps-and-full-sample-code.aspx

Kind regards,

Inge.

New Post: MVC3

cipherz — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:44:49 GMT

Do you have a sample MVC3 web role? I would really like to use these providers in MVC but don't know how to integrate with MVC.