Last week, my company published the public preview of MomCharts.com, our baby tracking software in the cloud. One of the design goals for the software was make sure it was cross-platform, cross-device, and as maintenance free as possible. My company (Heavy Code) is a member of the BizSpark program by Microsoft so we’ve got access to top tier tools and, most importantly, Windows Azure, at no cost to us. Pieces of Azure In Use There are a number of Azure services MomCharts runs.…

I recently tried deploying a new ASP.NET 4.5 MVC 3 application to our production web server. Everything worked fine on test and on my local machine, so I was not expecting trouble on production. But after I deployed it to production, every URL below the top-level immediately returned a 404 HTTP error. Other applications worked fine, but the new one gave me lots of trouble. This took a bit of work to figure out, but here’s the answer.…