Simple Solutions to Horrible Azure Pain - as Usual Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 I recently spent far too long debugging a problem with our Azure application. We have two Azure cloud projects, and they both started refusing to start at about the same time, with different error messages. ... Simple Solutions to Horrible Azure Pain - as Usual 0 0 0
Windows Azure and SQL Azure Videos Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Great content available to get started with Windows Azure and SQL Azure. Windows Azure SQL Azure Introductory Videos Introductory Videos Deep Dive Deep Dive Tutorials Case Studies Case Studies Events Events ... Windows Azure and SQL Azure Videos 0 0 0
Windows Azure NoReasoning, January 1, 0001 In two weeks, June 16, I will be hosting a First Look event at Centriq Training on Windows Azure. Although I will be talking about various things, such as 'what is cloud computing", "why Windows Azure", ... Windows Azure 0 0 0
Weather report - how can you stop worrying and learn to love the ... cyberycon, January 1, 0001 Has the cloud backlash started? Stallman's cloudburst when he railed against the dangers of allowing our data to be locked up offsite and online (http://www.guardian.co.uk/... ... Weather report - how can you stop worrying and learn to love the ... 0 0 3
Windows Azure AppFabric May and June CTPs - A summary Charles Young, January 1, 0001 I spent some time today summarising the new features in the Windows Azure AppFabric May CTP for SolidSoft consultants. Microsoft released the CTP a couple of weeks ago and has a second CTP coming out later ... Windows Azure AppFabric May and June CTPs - A summary 0 0 0
Assemblies Installed on Windows Azure Shaun, January 1, 0001 When we build an application that will be deployed on Windows Azure, one thing we should keep in mind is that the assemblies installed on the virtual machines on Windows Azure are very limited. It only ... Assemblies Installed on Windows Azure 0 0 0
Windows Azure MSDN How To tips in one place… Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 With thanks to Wriju for doing the work to pull these together. How to: Build a Windows Azure Application How to Configure Virtual Machine Sizes How to Configure Connection Strings How to Configure Operating ... Windows Azure MSDN How To tips in one place… 0 0 0
The super-slidy Windows Azure Pricing Calculator Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 In early 2010 I “complained” about the way we were explaining the Windows Azure Platform on our web site and pointed at a (IMHO) much better way of doing it by one of our competitors. A lot has changed ... The super-slidy Windows Azure Pricing Calculator 0 0 0
Azure Boot Camps on the West Coast ScottKlein, January 1, 0001 Blue Syntax has been working with Microsoft and the Central Region DPE's to help train at many of the Azure Boot Camps throughout the Central Region, including Dallas, St. Louis, Nashville, and Indianapolis. ... Azure Boot Camps on the West Coast 0 0 0
SQL Azure Federation Open for Nominations Shaun, January 1, 0001 Cihan Biyikoglu had just announced the SQL Azure Federation Products Evaluation Program had just been opened for nomination. If you are interest in data partitioning, or you had been run into the problem ... SQL Azure Federation Open for Nominations 0 0 0
Cloud Lesson Learned: Exponential Backoff Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 This blog is the first one of a series of blogs addressing programming practices and lessons learned related to cloud computing. While most developers will be familiar at least conceptually with the techniques ... Cloud Lesson Learned: Exponential Backoff 0 0 2
Windows Azure Platform Roadmap from Microsoft UK TechDays May 23r... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Several attendees asked me to share the roadmap slide from the developer track at Tech.Days 2011 this week. This is my summary as of May 23rd 2011. Beta Extra Small compute instance Windows Azure VM Role ... Windows Azure Platform Roadmap from Microsoft UK TechDays May 23r... 0 0 0
How does the Windows Azure Fabric controller do that? Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 Kevin Williamson has a great post on the overall flow of things from the point of publishing of your package up on the Windows Azure Developer Portal to Run(). These are good things to know as many times ... How does the Windows Azure Fabric controller do that? 0 0 0
WPB .Net User Group May 2011 Meeting With Scott Klein Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 Scott Klein, co-founder of Blue Syntax Consulting and SQL MVP, was our speaker at the West Palm Beach .Net User Group May meeting. Scott spoke and demonstrated code on Azure’s AppFabric. We would like ... WPB .Net User Group May 2011 Meeting With Scott Klein 0 0 0
Backup Tool for SQL Azure Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 For those that attended TechEd NA 2011 last week in Atlanta it should be no surprise that more and more companies are betting on the Azure platform, whether it is Windows Azure or SQL Azure. There have ... Backup Tool for SQL Azure 0 0 0
Slides for Windows Azure Developer Track on Monday 23rd Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 This is a placeholder for the folks who attended the Microsoft UK tech days developer track on the Windows Azure Platform and asked me to share my decks asap. I will create a much more detailed posting ... Slides for Windows Azure Developer Track on Monday 23rd 0 0 0
Windows Azure Platform announcements from TechEd Atlanta May 2011 Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 This week was TechEd in Atlanta and an opportunity for the Windows Azure Platform product groups to make some announcements on new and future technologies and services. I’m collating them over on my team ... Windows Azure Platform announcements from TechEd Atlanta May 2011 0 0 0
Highlight Report Malisa L. Ncube, January 1, 0001 Its been a while since I blogged. Its been hard balancing blogging time, work and many other activities. Most my days and even evenings have been cluttered with a number of tasks ranging from mundial to ... Highlight Report 0 0 1
Tech Ed 2011: The Wide-Open Road, at 55 MPH andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 For Microsoft these days, great things are happening at the macro level, and yet there’s fits-and-starts progress down below. This year’s Tech Ed North America conference represented, in event-form, that ... Tech Ed 2011: The Wide-Open Road, at 55 MPH 0 0 1
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 - training kit Natasa Gavrilovic, January 1, 0001 If you are trying to get up to speed on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 you can get a training kit from Microsoft website for free. It is 411 MB exe file and after install you can navigate thru ... Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 - training kit 0 0 1
TechEd 2011, the home stretch. Chris G. Williams, January 1, 0001 Overall, this year has been a pretty good TechEd. I’ve always thought ‘05 & ‘08 (both in Orlando) were the best I’ve attended and ‘10 was probably my least favorite (this was more due to the weather ... TechEd 2011, the home stretch. 0 0 2
CloudNinja - Windows Azure Multi-tenant Sample - Home Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 So, as one of the OneTAP leads for Windows Azure focusing on the BizSpark folks, I run into many questions regarding HOWTO and in areas of Auto-Scaling, provisioning, authentication. The folks at Full ... CloudNinja - Windows Azure Multi-tenant Sample - Home 0 0 0
Microsoft UK TechDays 2011 less than one week off Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 It has been a couple of weeks since I last posted about TechDays. Today I completed the final review of all the decks for the Windows Azure developer tracks for Monday and Tuesday. All except for the keynote ... Microsoft UK TechDays 2011 less than one week off 0 0 0
Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon at TechEd 2011 Chris G. Williams, January 1, 0001 In case you missed it, the Windows Phone Hackathon was last night. TechEd attendees and community folks from around Atlanta showed up to get some free training on Windows Phone development (Silverlight, ... Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon at TechEd 2011 0 0 0
Anyone convinced a security team to go for Azure AppFabric Servic... Elton Stoneman, January 1, 0001 At the UK Connected Systems User Group meeting yesterday we had a good session from Imran on Azure AppFabric. We ran out of evening before the end of the session, so I didn't get to raise this question, ... Anyone convinced a security team to go for Azure AppFabric Servic... 0 0 7
Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon Chris G. Williams, January 1, 0001 Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon Monday, May 16, 2011 6:00p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Register: http://bit.ly/RegWP7Hackathon Don't miss this opportunity to get hands on help with your Windows Phone 7 app, from ... Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon 0 0 3
The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Exam 70-58... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Let’s focus on Exam 70-583 this time. This exam is PRO: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications. This guide itself will be a different approach to preparing for the exam itself. Instead of ... The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Exam 70-58... 0 0 0
A Custom DNS Name for my SQL Azure Database Server Dittenhafer Solutions, January 1, 0001 The published SQL Azure documentation indicates that authentication may require the suffix "@servername" attached to your username (where servername is your SQL Azure server name), but there is little ... A Custom DNS Name for my SQL Azure Database Server 0 0 3
APress Deal of the Day - 8/May/2011 - Introducing Windows Azure TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com is Introducing Windows Azure "Everything you need to get started with Microsoft Azure and apply it across a range of situations. Author ... APress Deal of the Day - 8/May/2011 - Introducing Windows Azure 0 0 0
Cool Resources: Windows Azure Edition Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 The very first thing that needs to happen is the need for a Windows Azure account. Try it free! http://www.microsoft.com/wi... The Learning Plan http://learning.microsoft.c... ... Cool Resources: Windows Azure Edition 0 0 0
The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Part 1 of ... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 I have mentioned I will be speaking on a Cram 4 exam session at the upcoming TechEd North America 2011 in Atlanta. The topic is the prep for exam 70-583: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications. ... The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Part 1 of ... 0 0 0
Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 One stop shop for data: https://datamarket.azure.com/ SQL Azure Labs >> Configure OData Services http://www.odata.org/ ... Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket 0 0 0
Windows Azure Cloud Computing Scenarios Notes Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure Cloud Computing Scenarios Notes: (http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.... Things to consider for architecture: Does It improve bottomline? http://azureroi.cloudapp.net/ http://www.microsoft.com/wi... ... Windows Azure Cloud Computing Scenarios Notes 0 0 0
Windows Azure Diagnostics Notes Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure Boot Camp: Diagnostics (http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.... Remote desktop MonAgentHost.exe starts Auto, listener wired up in app/web.config Need to define a storage account User can set quota ... Windows Azure Diagnostics Notes 0 0 0
Windows Azure Queue Notes Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure Boot Camp Note: http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.net/ Queue name must be lower case Unlimited number, but limited to 8kb in size must be serializable as XML GC runs once a week Producer to Consumer ... Windows Azure Queue Notes 0 0 0
Windows Azure Drives Notes Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Notes from Windows Azure Drives: http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.net/ Why use this? One example is to satify PDF requirement (PDF files require a local temp drive) Durable NTFS drives Can be up to 1TB Commands: ... Windows Azure Drives Notes 0 0 0
Windows Azure Blob Notes Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Notes from Windows Azure Boot Camp: http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.net/ Blob: Metadata, not searchable, must loop through to check Block Blob, 200GB limit Page Block, 1TB limit Upload block blob PutBlock (bloblName, ... Windows Azure Blob Notes 0 0 0
Thanks to my wife for a dream machine Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 2 months ago I learned that there is going to be a Windows Azure Boot Camp, free, 2-day, code-intensive. The only catch at the time for me was that I didn't have a laptop, a requirement for this camp. ... Thanks to my wife for a dream machine 0 0 0
Azure Code Boot Camp Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 This is Day 2 of Microsoft Windows Azure Boot Camp. Yesterday was excellent, can't wait for the events today. One thing I do regret was not writing blogs about each topic yesterday; a mistake I will not ... Azure Code Boot Camp 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for May 04, 2011 -- #1084 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, David Anson, Rob Tiffany, Paul Sheriff, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty(-2-), and Andrea Boschin. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Performance Optimization ... Silverlight Cream for May 04, 2011 -- #1084 0 0 0
UK Windows Azure Bootcamp Resources – and say hi if you are... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Tomorrow (Wednesday 4th May 2011) I’m lab proctoring at the first of the Windows Azure Bootcamps taking place over the next month. Steve has created these Bootcamps to enable developers to get hands on ... UK Windows Azure Bootcamp Resources – and say hi if you are... 0 0 0
April is gone, May is here Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 April was maybe the busiest month I have seen. Projects are closing but many are going strong. Many lessons came with it. A deeper and stronger involvement with Windows Azure. Specially around System Center ... April is gone, May is here 0 0 0
AzureFest Comes to Winnipeg! D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 There’s a lot of buzz about cloud computing right now: how it works, how you develop for a cloud platform, how you deploy your applications, what are the gotchas and nuances, etc. For those wondering these ... AzureFest Comes to Winnipeg! 0 0 0
Fancy a job in the Microsoft UK ISV technical team? Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 If you are: a senior technologist (Application Architect, Senior Developer or similar) with strong experience in developing solutions using the Windows platform (Visual Studio, SQL Server, IIS etc) fancy ... Fancy a job in the Microsoft UK ISV technical team? 0 0 0
3 good reasons why am in love with the cloud - Windows Azure Clou... Allan Rwakatungu, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; ... 3 good reasons why am in love with the cloud - Windows Azure Clou... 0 0 1
How To Set Public Port for Web Role [Windows Azure] Saqib Ullah, January 1, 0001 Many time developer required specific port for development when he/she using Visual Studio for asp.net application development. They specify port by taking Properties of the Web Site and select Web option. ... How To Set Public Port for Web Role [Windows Azure] 0 0 0
Best of FREE Frameworks, Tools and Controls for Windows Phone 7. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 The list provided below is my “Best-Of” FREE Frameworks, Tools and Controls for Windows Phone 7. I have used everything listed below in an my WP7 applications. Most of them are in the marketplace at this ... Best of FREE Frameworks, Tools and Controls for Windows Phone 7. 0 0 2
NoSQL, No Peace andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 After several months of research, review and revision, a white paper I wrote for the SQL Azure team, “NoSQL and the Windows Azure Platform”, has been published by Microsoft. If you go to http://www.microsoft.com/wi... ... NoSQL, No Peace 0 0 5
Talked about SQL Azure at an Oracle Conference Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 I have to admit, I was really excited to have the opportunity to talk about SQL Azure at an Oracle conference. Microsoft invited Scott Klein to COLLABORATE 11 (on 4/13/11), but at the last minute we switched ... Talked about SQL Azure at an Oracle Conference 0 0 0
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1 - Runtime Update tiagomargalho, January 1, 0001 It seems that Microsoft has made available a runtime update for the .Net Framework 4.0 that allows a developer to create State Machine Workflows (event-driven workflows). This is great news for everyone ... Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1 - Runtime Update 0 0 0