I've written before about the most excellent tool Cloud Storage Studio by Cerebrata. I use exclusively for uploading blobs to Windows Azure as well as downloading my IIS log files. I just hit an issue as far as IIS logs which (fortunately) easily resolved. By default, Cloud Storage Studio does not preseve path settings when downloading files.  This presents a problem if you have multiple instances of your application on Windows Azure, because, when you go to download the log files, there will be duplicate log file names (aka  "u_ex09121403.log") from your different instances. 

The fix is easy. Go into options and see if the "Preserve directory path information in blob name when downloading files & directories" setting checked or not? You can check this setting either under "Configuration Settings --> Container/Blob Setting" or under "Download Window --> Download Settings" By default it is unchecked. If it is checked, then Cloud Storage Studio will preserve the folder hierarchy. You may need to restart the app after you set it as it didn't pick up my configuration changes after I set it. (They need to implement INotifyPropertyChanged!)

 Just shipped Incarnate, a new lab from the fresh new looking Mix Online site. I think the appropriate tagline for Incarnate is "Who do you want to be today" as people are quickly realizing that it can be more entertaining to be a celebrity avatar than yourself.

Now you know what all those posts about JSON-P, Windows Azure, REST Starter Kit and more were about! 

And, as you may notice, I've implemented Incarnate on this blog, inside .NET Blog Engine. Unfortunately, I couldn't use their plug-in model and I actually had to modify the source, but it wasn't too bad. If you are running .NET Blog Engine and want to know how to install Incarnate into it, let me know.

Just resolved a funky little css issue where I was having problems with getting Firefox, Chrome and Safari to respect the background-color I was setting. Turns out the div itself needed to have overflow:hidden added to its CSS; IE8 was interpolating that space for me.

New blog post published up on Mix Online about Windows Azure Diagnostics -- my experience, gotchas, etc.

I've been doing a lot more blogging these days over at Mix Online. My most recent post was about JSON-P and, in particular, how to get it working with the WCF REST Starter Kit.