Category Archives: How To Guide

Building Iron Foundry Apps that Leverage Windows Azure ACS for User Authentication

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Richard Seroter

Tweet Iron Foundry and other PaaS frameworks are built to deliver a set of services to developers for building applications. While we think Iron Foundry has a great set of web, data and messaging services available, it by no means … Continue reading →

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Iron Foundry vcap-client (AKA The .NET Cloud Foundry vcap-client)

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Adron Hall

Tweet Ever want to write code against the Cloud Foundry API but you don’t want to go to the trouble of wrapping up the API calls with library? Well, have no fear there’s no need to! With dilligent work from … Continue reading →

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Managing PostgreSQL and MySQL Application Instances in Iron Foundry

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Richard Seroter

Tweet One reasonable concern with PaaS platforms is whether or not developers can easily access and administer backend application services. Iron Foundry database services such as PostgreSQL and MySQL have very strong management tools that you don’t want to abandon … Continue reading →

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Contribute to Iron Foundry, Here’s How!

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Adron Hall

Tweet We’ve been asked a few times, “what’s the quickest, easiest and fastest way to get the code, build it and contribute back to Iron Foundry?” Here’s a quick start for doing just that. First, there are a few prerequisites … Continue reading →

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Iron Foundry Adds Microsoft Service Bus as a New Application Service

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Richard Seroter

Tweet Microsoft recently released a beta version of their Service Bus for Windows messaging technology, and the Iron Foundry team has now added this as an available service in Iron Foundry. The Service Bus for Windows is a scaled down … Continue reading →

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Deploying Web+Database Apps to Iron Foundry Without Changing Configuration Settings

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Richard Seroter

Tweet One of the tricky things you’ll experience when working with PaaS platforms is that the local development environment won’t exactly mirror the targeted PaaS environment. While some cloud providers do a good job of having a local simulated fabric … Continue reading →

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Caldecott with MS SQL Server!

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Jared Wray

Tweet Yesterday we launched our new testing environment that you can read about. With that announcement we added support for Caldecott which allows you to tunnel from your environment to services in the Cloud Foundry environment. Today we have enabled MS SQL … Continue reading →

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How To Deploy Orchard CMS on Iron Foundry

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Jared Wray

Tweet Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and reusable components on the ASP.NET platform. The Orchard project as a very active and vibrant community that is actively developing and also using it for personal and … Continue reading →

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Cloud Foundry with Iron Foundry (Windows Core) Install

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Jared Wray

Tweet Cloud Foundry has been taking the web by storm. PaaS is growing in popularity as more developers find the disruptively positive deployment scenarios that are possible over traditional environments. Cloud Foundry, primarily centered around Linux-based PaaS, now has a … Continue reading →

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