Greybox - Azure Hosted Service Deployment Notifier

Source code checked in, #e921720d10e3

mikewo — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:40:59 GMT

Rearranging folders now that the code is in Mecurial and not TFS.

Created Feature: Add filtering support for hosted services [30690]

MikeWo — Fri, 13 May 2011 17:40:50 GMT

Add the ability in configuration to filter out specific hosted services from checking. This will allow a subscription to have one or more hosted services to not be checked, or ignored during the checks.

Created Issue: Monitor for SQL Azure Databases [30689]

MikeWo — Fri, 13 May 2011 17:37:51 GMT

Add checking for deployed SQL Azure databases and alert just like for Hosted Services.

Commented Feature: Monitor Staging Instances [30413]

jimzim — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:48:02 GMT

It would be a very nice feature to monitor staging instances and be notified every hour if there are staging instances and where they are, so we can kill them if we forgot to delete them.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: jimzim **

My bad, I didn't have any instances in staging, i see it does monitor staging, but would just like to be notified every hour while a staging instance is a live. We have had some issues of cost accidently leaving staging, so would be super helpful. I am totally willing to help out where you need to implement this. I am looking at your code to see where i could possibly add it. We should chat. good work!

Commented Issue: Monitor Staging Instances [30413]

MikeWo — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:58:11 GMT

Thanks for the feedback. The utility does currently monitor any deployment (staging or production). This does bring up an interesting idea of having a toggle to only alert for staging, production or both.

Created Issue: Monitor Staging Instances [30413]

jimzim — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:25:34 GMT

It would be a very nice feature to monitor staging instances and be notified every hour if there are staging instances and where they are, so we can kill them if we forgot to delete them.

Closed Feature: Implement refresh option [29111]

MikeWo — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:24:39 GMT

As a user I need to be able to refresh the hosted services status on Greybox more regularly than the scheduled check.

There should be an option on the context menu to refresh the list of running services.
Comments:

Completed in v1.1.

Created Feature: Add link to Portal on Context menu [29683]

MikeWo — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:06:29 GMT

As a user of GreyBox I want to quickly get access to the Azure management portal.

Add a link off the context menu in the system tray to link to the portal.

Updated Release: GreyBox v1.1 (Dec 07, 2010)

MikeWo — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:59:36 GMT

This release includes a refresh capability from on the context menu on the system tray icon. No more waiting until the configured timer gets around to checking.

I know that a couple people have indicated that GreyBox is reporting incorrectly that it can't reach the internet. I'm using a Win32 API call to detect internet connectivity and can't recreate the issue yet. That remains uncorrected at this time.

Note that you do NOT have to change your config file, so download, unzip and just use your original GreyBox.exe.config file if you are “upgrading”.

Released: GreyBox v1.1 (Dec 07, 2010)

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:59:36 GMT

Source code checked in, #81617

MikeWo — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:49:31 GMT

Changes to the version number and removing a dead file.

Updated Release: GreyBox v1.1 (Dec 07, 2010)

MikeWo — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:44:05 GMT

Updated Release: GreyBox v1.1 Dec 2010 (Dec 07, 2010)

MikeWo — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:39:41 GMT

Updated Release: Greybox v1.1

MikeWo — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:58:43 GMT

This release includes:

Refresh command added to context menu.

Commented Feature: Implement refresh option [29111]

MikeWo — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:55:50 GMT

I've added the refresh capability. It stop the interval timer, checks for deployments, then starts the timer back up again.

Commented Feature: Implement refresh option [29111]

MikeWo — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:53:39 GMT

Source code checked in, #78175

MikeWo — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:53:38 GMT

Added refresh option and unit tests. Also added additional trace messages to help watch flow of application.

Created Feature: Create management API stub harness [29128]

MikeWo — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:17:04 GMT

Create a small development utility that can be substituted in configuration to act as the management API gateway. This should run as a separate test harness application. When configured to use this harness the greybox utility would make calls to this local app instead of the actual management API. This will help test local interactions in the UI without having to deploy to the Azure environment for testing.

This is not a replacement for unit tests and mocking in unit tests. This is more for testing interactions in the UI when adding features.

Created Task: Update Icons [29125]

MikeWo — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:53:42 GMT

Get bettter icons that show up a little better.

Created Issue: Handle multiple subscriptions [29112]

MikeWo — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:39:39 GMT

As a user I need to be able to view the status and control multiple subscriptions.

Alter the application to be able to read multiple subscriptions from the configuration and check them in parallel.