For those of you who have been using Azure storage for months, you may notice a few changes in the Nov 09 CTP, such as the new StorageClient namespace. This post shows you how to get rolling with table storage and the new client
As of yesterday, you can now create ASP.NET MVC 2 applications in your Azure web roles. Not only is this scenario supported, but it's even got built-in VS2010 template support! Read on to find out more
The .NET Services team has just put out a blog post giving us extremely good details regarding the breaking changes that will be released on Thursday along with the new .NET Services SDK. All of this is making ready for the PDC push.
This blog post gives you some tips and tricks to get your application up and running using LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework to communicate with your SQL Azure cloud database.
This blog post walks you through the process of creating your SQL Azure database and provides you with some best practices in terms of managing the create and update scripts for the DB schema
Here's a problem people might run into: You're utilizing an ASP.NET membership provider over cloud storage and your application has no administrators. How do you log in as admin to create a new admin??
The SDLC of an Azure application takes a little getting used to. This blog post talks about configuration settings and how using them to their fullest can make your life easier.
Yesterday I was explaining to a friend of mine what I'd been doing in my spare time. He then asked me to explain the difference between cloud computing and traditional web hosting. This blog post contains that explanation
Recently a friend of mine introduced me to Heroku, a hosting site for Ruby on Rails applications. The novel thing was their approach to deploying those applications. They exemplify what true cloud deployment should be, and MS should learn from them.
In this tutorial, I walk you though the process of upgrading your Silverlight Live Mesh application to be able to store and retrieve data using DataFeeds and DataEntries
This blog post takes a look at Live Mesh and Windows Azure, both part of the larger Azure platform, and describes the technical and practical differences between the two and why you might pick one over the other
Yesterday during the PDC 2008 opening keynote, Microsoft unveiled Windows Azure Services. In this post, I'll take a look at the information available and see if I can distill it down into an easily digestable form