Blogs Posts on "Azure"

Microsoft Unleashes Windows Azure Jan 1st by Cloud Head on Nov 19, 2009Darryl K. Taft, eweek.com, 11/17/2009 LOS ANGELES — Microsoft will turn on its Windows Azure cloud platform as of January 1, 2010, said Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie in a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developers Co...

Azure Goes Live, Will be PLM Impacted? by Daily PLM Think Tank on Nov 18, 2009Finally announced by Microsoft – Azure will go to live in January 2010. To make yourself more familiar with Azure, use this link. You can read interesting Q&A on ebiz. However, my main topic to discuss will be how this new cloud platform fr...

Working with Table Storage on the Windows Azure November 2009 CTP by The .NET Addict's Blog on Nov 15, 2009If you've been working with Azure for a while then you've probably spent some time using the StorageClient sample that came with previous versions of the SDK. With the November 2009 release of the SDK (the one they'll be using at PDC 2009...

Getting the ASP.NET Providers working on the Azure Nov 2009 CTP by The .NET Addict's Blog on Nov 15, 2009If you've been trying to get the ASP.NET providers working on the November 2009 CTP of Windows Azure then you may have run into a snag, or a couple snags if you're using Visual Studio 2010.First of all, if you're using Visual Studio 2010...

Setting up an ASP.NET MVC 2 Application for Windows Azure by The .NET Addict's Blog on Nov 14, 2009Yesterday, Microsoft released another update to the Windows Azure SDK. This update includes a truckload of new goodies that I will be covering in additional blog posts. For this blog post, however, I want to walk you through getting an ASP.NET MVC 2...

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Breaking Changes for .NET Services in Azure by The .NET Addict's Blog on Nov 2, 2009If you want the full gory details, check out the .NET Services team blog post here. What follows below are some of the things that I think are most crucial to understand both for new developers and for developers unfortunate enough to be in a positio...

LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework on top of SQL Azure by The .NET Addict's Blog on Oct 28, 2009As mentioned in my previous blog post, you don't get full designer support on SQL Azure within SQL Server Management Studio. In addition, you don't get designer support for LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework, either. So what do you do if you wan...

Creating and Manipulating your SQL Azure Database with SSMS and Visual Studio by The .NET Addict's Blog on Oct 28, 2009So after the long and torturous wait, you're now in the SQL Azure CTP and you are ready to get the ball rolling with your fabulous, shiny new cloud-based SQL database server. Now what? Well, the first thing you're going to need to do is creat...

Rentcycle Looks to Put Niche Rental Shops Online by Tech-Storm on Oct 14, 2009This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSp...

Cloud pricing: is Azure competitive? by Lambert on Software on Oct 8, 2009Now that Azure’s pricing model is starting to take shape, we’re starting to see what Microsoft meant when they said Azure would be priced “competitively”.  This week, Oakleaf Systems compared Azure to Amazon’s cloud off...