Microsoft 70-486: Debug an Azure application

Exam Objectives

Collect diagnostic information by using Azure Diagnostics API and appropriately implement on demand versus scheduled; choose log types (for example, event logs, performance counters, and crash dumps); debug an Azure application by using IntelliTrace, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), and remote debugging; interact directly with remote Azure websites using Server Explorer.

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications - Objective 4.4
Enabling Diagnostics in Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Machines
Microsoft Azure Diagnostics: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Create and use performance counters in an Azure application
Initialize or Change Azure Diagnostics Configuration
Store and view diagnostic data in Azure Storage

Cloud Diagnostics - Take Control of Logging and Tracing in Windows Azure

Enable diagnostics logging for web apps in Azure App Service

Azure SDK 2.6 Diagnostics Improvements for Cloud Services
MSDN - Using Dump Files
Debugging an Azure cloud service or virtual machine in Visual Studio

This post has about 4 billion screenshots, so I apologize in advance...

Using Maven and Google Plugin for Eclipse together in harmony

So, this post is mostly about documenting, for myself, how to get Eclipse and Maven set up correctly for my current project, but I think there might also be some bits of useful wisdom for other devs who might be working with similar circumstances.  The basic, 30k foot look at my problem is something like this:


   I have a Google Web Toolkit (GWT) project that is to run on Google App Engine (GAE).  How do I use Maven to manage dependencies, while still maintaining the functionality that the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) gives me?