azure-web-roles

I have a Windows Azure webrole (WCF) webservice. I have a method to upload files to Window Azure blob storage. This works well, but only for small ( < 30 Kb) files. <OperationContract()> Function UploadFileV1(ByVal ApplicationSessionGuid As String, ByVal UserSessionGuid As String, ByVal FileContent As Byte(), ByVal FileName As String, ByVal FileDescription As String, ByVal FileDisplayName As String, ByVal IsPublic As Boolean) As DataSet If this part: ByVal FileContent As Byte() is bigger than 30 Kb then I get an error when I call the webservice. The remote server returned an unexpected

I'm playing with Azure sample from here on Compute Emulator and I found that if I make OnStart() in my class inherited from RoleEntryPoint rather slow to return the .aspx page in the web role accepts HTTP requests even before OnStart() returns. I find it rather confusing - why would IIS accept requests to the role that hasn't yet started? The emulator does not emulate the load balancer 100%. For the cloud, when your role is in OnStart() you are reported to the LB as Busy and no traffic will be routed to it. Once you return from OnStart() with true, it will take a few seconds or so but only

I have a Worker Role that executes code (fetching data and storing it to Azure SQL) every X hours. The timing is implemented using a Thread.Sleep in the while(true) loop in the Run method. In the Web Role I want to have the abillity to manualy start the code in Worker Role (manualy fecth and store data in my case). I found out that the whole Worker Role can be restarted using the Azure Management API but it seems like an overkill, especialy looking at all the work needed around certificates. Is there a better way to restart Worker Role from Web Role or have the code in Worker Role run on