As I mentioned before, I am going to write the last post about integrating Windows 8 Metro applications with Azure. First of, let’s take a look at securing our service with Forms Authentication. I blogged about that as well, and the only change is that I am going to use REST for authentication service. Here …
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In this post I will describe how to get started with running SQL Server Reporting Services on Azure. SSRS on Azure is now in beta stage, but anyone can give it a whirl. First of all, activate the service and create new report server. When you are on management portal, click on Reporting link (see …
Recently I have been doing some TFS work. One of the tasks I have completed was to implement automatic publishing to Azure from TFS build. Our goal is to automate as much as possible to make it easy for QA to test as well as ensure that every night we have a fresh build for …
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Microsoft and Magenic want to show you the best way to include cloud computing into your technology solution set. Dan Sandlin (Azure Solution Specialist) will discuss which projects are right for cloud computing and which ones you should avoid, as well as how to select your first cloud project and the ROI of Azure. Sergey …
As I posted previously, I talked at Atlanta ReMix 2010 conference past Saturday. Entire event was a a success, we had over 200 people there. We had great presenters and good topics. My topic was “Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Azure: A Match Made for the Web” You can download PowerPoint presentation here. You can download …
If you have not registered for this fine event I blogged about previously, you have a week left. You can register for it here: http://reMIXatlanta.org. You can also check out the list of session that will be presented there. Yours truly will be presented a session there as well. The title will be “Microsoft Silverlight …
I just want to relay Microsoft’s new offer to everyone. Windows Azure is now offered for free for a limited time. This is an introductory offer to get more people to use new cloud platform from Microsoft. Please see this link for details.
I spoke at Atlanta.NET Users Group yesterday, My topic was Azure Step-by-Step. I talked about why someone would use Windows and SQL Azure, then I built a Silverlight application from scratch. The application was designed to run in Windows Azure and use SQL Azure as database. I demonstrated how to get maximum code re-use between …
As always I had fun presenting at Gwinnett Georgia Microsoft Users Group on Thursday. The subject of my talk was “Getting started with SQL Azure”. I documented all the steps in this blog post. There are also useful links that I mentioned in this post to help you get started. There are many advantages to …
This is purely a bragging post 🙂 I just deployed a test application to the cloud (Microsoft Azure): http://rolodex.cloudapp.net/ Here is the technology stack for it: Windows Azure SQL Azure CSLA 3.8.1 Silverlight Entity Framework WCF Prism (Composite Application Guidance) Silverlight Toolkit I promise to write a blog entry in the near future, the steps …