Welcome to Windows AzureConf, a free event for the Windows Azure community. This event features a keynote presentation by Scott Guthrie, along with numerous sessions executed by Windows Azure community members. After the keynote, two concurrent sets of sessions will be streamed live for an online audience right here on Channel 9, which will allow you to see how developers just like you are using Windows Azure to develop applications in the cloud. Community members from all over the world join Scott in the Channel 9 studios to present their own ideas, innovations inventions and experiences. These presentations will provide you the opportunity to see how your peers in the community are doing great things using Windows Azure offerings like Mobile Services, Web Sites, Service Bus, virtual machines, and more. Whether you're just learning Windows Azure or you've already achieved success on the platform, you won't want to miss this special event.
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Keynote: Scott Guthrie
Scott Guthrie kicks off the Windows Azure Conf by presenting an overview of Windows Azure. Scott will demonstrate how to build a wide variety of applications ranging from web sites, mobile applications, and multi-tier cloud services.
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Taking Control of Your Windows Azure Services
Have you ever needed to take control of your Windows Azure services but found some of the higher-level tooling just didn't quite fit your needs? While there are many ways to manage your Windows Azure services (PowerShell, Visual Studio, web portal, etc.), it is the Windows Azure Service Management API...
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Windows Azure Web Sites - Things They Don't Teach Kids in School
Microsoft has a cloud platform which runs .NET, NodeJS and PHP. All 101 talks out there will show you the same: it's easy to deploy, it scales out on demand and it runs WordPress. Great! But what about doing real things? In this session, we'll explore the things they don't teach kids in school. How about...
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From Collocated Servers to Windows Azure Web Sites in Three Days
The problem was that our platform was slow and couldn't support the growth we expected. We knew we needed to move the platform to the cloud and in a timely manner. After moving our core website to Azure, we decided to experiment with Azure websites on some of the platform features. For our 'Showcase'...
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Essential Iaas for Developers
Why should developers care about IaaS? Think of your Windows Azure Datacenter as an Object Model(OM). "IaaS OM" can help us build cost effective systems by only turning on the parts of system that are needed and when they are needed. Additionally, systems built using IaaS can not only be more...
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Developing Cross Platform Mobile Solutions with Azure Mobile Services
Mobile applications are the current hot development topic today. Many companies desire a common story for their applications across all mobile platforms. By using Telerik's cross-platform mobile development solution Icenium, developers can work with a cloud-based mobile framework containing everything...
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Debugging and Monitoring Windows Azure Cloud Services
Windows Azure Cloud Services is an awesome platform for developers to deliver applications in the cloud without needing to manage virtual machines. However, the abstraction that gives you this simplified deployment and scale, prevents you from attaching a Visual Studio Remote Debugger. Sometimes you...
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Lights, Camera, Action - Media Services on the Loose
You just cannot imagine the Web without audio and video services. Up until now, if you want to include streaming media content in your websites or applications, you need to rely on third party services or massive computing capacity for media transcoding, and streaming to a range of client devices. With...
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Real World Architectures using Windows Azure Mobile Services
With Windows Azure Mobile Services, Microsoft has made available an amazing service to easily build mobile solutions on a solid API, offering a lot of important components out of the box. Starting from data running on a Windows Azure SQL Database, exposed through a REST API and supported by javascript-enabled...
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How we Made MyGet.org on Windows Azure
Ever wonder how some applications are built? Ever wonder how to combine components of the Windows Azure platform? Stop wondering and learn how we've built MyGet.org, a multi-tenant software-as-a-service. In this session we'll discuss architecture, commands, events, access control, multi tenancy and how...