Channel 9

Leveraging DataMarket to Create Cloud-Powered Digital Dashboards

MSDN Online Media — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:21:48 GMT

In this webcast, ComponentArt showcases its Data Visualization technology to create interactive, web-based digital dashboards in Microsoft Silverlight 4 and mobile dashboards on Windows Phone 7 by using Windows Azure DataMarket.

DataMarket, in Windows Azure Marketplace, is an information marketplace where users can easily discover, explore, subscribe, and consume trusted premium data and public domain data. Content partners can publish on DataMarket to increase the discoverability and global reach of their proprietary data.

Users have access to many types of data such as demographic, environmental, financial, retail, weather and sports data. Developers can leverage a simple and uniform REST based OData API to embed this data into their applications. DataMarket provides many free datasets from leading industry providers including the United Nations, Data.gov, World Bank, Zillow, Weather Bug, Weather Central, Alteryx, and Wolfram Alpha. Developers can mash up rich industry data to enhance the capabilities of their applications.

Presenters: Milos Glisic, Director of Development, ComponentArt Inc., and Christian Liensberger, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

A member of the ComponentArt team since its inception and presently its director of Development, Milos Glisic has been heavily involved in the design and implementation of ComponentArt's Data Visualization suite for Microsoft .NET. He loves working with Microsoft Silverlight and is passionate about information graphics and map-based visualizations in particular. Over the years, he has presented the company's technology at many user group meetings and conferences. Milos holds an honors bachelor of science degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Toronto.

MSDN Radio: Chatting with Scott Guthrie

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:07:37 GMT

We talk with Scott Guthrie about Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC), and other up and coming topics in the technology space. Scott’s passion for software and developer tools has made him a leader in providing developers with what they need to build great applications.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. Visit www.msdnradio.com to register for upcoming shows.

Host and Guest: Mike Benkovich, Senior Developer Evangelist, and Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation

Mike Benkovich delivers technical presentations around the U.S. as a developer tools evangelist on the MSDN team at Microsoft. He has worked in a variety of professional roles, including architect, project manager, developer, and technical writer.

MSDN Radio: Silverlight, RIA and Windows Phone with Tim Huckaby

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:28:22 GMT

This week we chat with Tim Huckaby about Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Internet Application (RIA), Windows Phone and Touch Interfaces. As the CEO of InterKnowlogy and a Microsoft expert, Tim has helped audiences explore what’s compelling and cool about the tools and technologies that developers need to do their jobs. Submit your questions via Twitter to Mike Benkovich @mbenko, or Mithun Dhar @mithund and append hash tag #msdnradio.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. For previous and upcoming shows visit www.msdnradio.com.

Guest: Tim Huckaby, Founder, InterKnowlogy

Tim founded InterKnowlogy, experts in .NET and Microsoft Platforms, in 1999. He serves as its Chairman and as the Chairman of Actus Software. Tim has 30+ years’ experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a dev lead on an architecture team on a Server Product. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP and serves on many Microsoft councils and boards like the Microsoft .NET Partner Advisory Council.

geekSpeak Recording - Business Intelligence and SharePoint Server 2010 with Kevin Goff

MSDN Online Media — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:53:11 GMT

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides many opportunities to render data from business intelligence (BI) applications. In this episode of geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Kevin Goff shows examples of building BI content in SharePoint Server 2010 by using PerformancePoint Services, Microsoft Excel Services, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, and PowerPivot. By the end, we'll see an integrated dashboard in SharePoint with content from all of these tools.

This geekSpeak is hosted by Glen Gordon and Rachel Appel. The geekSpeak series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by Microsoft developer evangelists. Visit the geekSpeak blog for resources or to ask a question before a live webcast.

Guest Presenter: Kevin Goff, SQL/BI Instructor, SetFocus

Kevin is a Microsoft SQL Server Most Valuable Professional (MVP), author, SQL/business intelligence (BI) instructor for SetFocus, writer for CoDe Magazine, speaker, and SQL/Microsoft.NET/Crystal Reports developer. He's also an obsessive sports and jazz music fanatic and a full-time daddy as of May 8, 2009.

MSDN Radio: Technology Past, Present and Future with John Bristowe

MSDN Online Media — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:12:44 GMT

With the rapid rate of changes and releases in the technology world, how do you keep up with it all? This week we talk with John Bristowe about what’s coming, what’s here and what we can put behind us. This show is hosted by Mike Benkovich and Mithun Dhar.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. For previous and upcoming shows visit www.msdnradio.com.

Guest: John Bristowe, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

John Bristowe is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Microsoft Canada and is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. John is an experienced speaker and frequently presents at developer conferences and events. Prior to joining Microsoft, John was a member of the Microsoft Regional Director program and was awarded a Microsoft MVP award for his work in the developer community on technologies such as ASP, ASP.NET, and the Microsoft Web services stack.

geekSpeak Recording - The Reactive Framework with Jim Wooley

MSDN Online Media — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:40:30 GMT

If you've used Language-Integrated Query (LINQ), you've seen the power and flexibility of the IEnumerable interface. Sadly, this "pull" approach breaks down in asynchronous and event-driven environments. In this geekSpeak, LINQ guru and author Jim Wooley introduces us to the Reactive Extensions for Microsoft .NET and shows how to make event-driven asynchronous programming easier and more declarative by using the Reactive Framework and LINQ to Events. This geekSpeak is hosted by Glen Gordon and Peter Laudati.

The geekSpeak series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by Microsoft developer evangelists. These experts share their knowledge and experience and answer your questions during the webcast. Visit the geekSpeak blog for resources or to ask a question before a live webcast.

Guest Presenter: Jim Wooley, Technology Consultant, Slalom Consulting

Jim Wooley is a technology consultant with Slalom, a frequent speaker, a member of the International .NET Association (INETA) Speaker Bureau, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and an author of LINQ in Action (Manning Publications, 2008). He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a new challenge. Jim has been actively evangelizing about LINQ since its announcement in 2005. In addition to speaking at numerous user groups and code camps in eight states, Jim has presented at product launch events, Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) conferences, regional conferences, Visual Studio Live!, DevWeek, and TechEd.

MSDN Radio: Diving into Design with Sara Summers

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:37:28 GMT

What’s the deal with design? This week we sit down with Sara Summers, a Senior UX Evangelist for Microsoft and author of a Microsoft Expression Blend book. Join us as we talk with Sara about how developers can dive into design, what tools are available today and how to integrate design with the software lifecycle. This show is hosted by Mike Benkovich @mbenko and Mithun Dhar @mithund.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. Visit www.msdnradio.com for previous and upcoming shows.

Guest: Sara Summers, Senior UX Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

Sara Summers is a User Experience Evangelist at Microsoft and has coauthored the recently published book for experience designers, entitled Dynamic Prototyping. She has a personal design mantra: happy, healthy designers and developers working and playing together to create beautiful, inspirational products. Sara loves to talk about big ideas, changing everything, breaking your toys, throwing away your designs and capturing new ideas. Sara reads everything she can get her hands on and prides herself in being an armchair social and cognitive scientist and researcher. Academically, she is trained as a technologist and visual designer, with a BS in Computer Graphics Technology, from Purdue University.

MSDN Radio: TFS Running on Azure with Brian Harry

MSDN Online Media, Brian Harry — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:41:20 GMT

The recent release of Windows Azure 1.3 provides more possibilities including remote desktop to running instances, virtual machine role, new diagnostic information and more. At PDC 10 it was announced that Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) will be a hosted application running on the platform. This week we sit down with Brian Harry, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft, and talk about the challenges and opportunities of bringing TFS to the cloud. This show is hosted by Mike Benkovich and Mithun Dhar.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. For previous and upcoming shows visit, www.msdnradio.com.

Guest: Brian Harry, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Corporation

Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and serves as the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server - a server based product designed to dramatically improve the productivity, predictability and agility of software development teams by ensuring that all team members have easy access to the information they need to make the right decisions at the right time.

Quick Tips: Using Web Publish with Windows Azure

MSDN Online Media — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:07:49 GMT

This video demonstrates how an end user can do web deploy in Windows Azure. This saves time and takes only seconds rather than several minutes to publish. Mike Benkovich, Senior Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, walks you through the steps.

For more information visit the Windows Azure site.

geekSpeak Recording - Asynchronous Programming Now and in the Future

MSDN Online Media — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:43:00 GMT

In this geekSpeak, Jason Rainwater shows us the evolution of asynchronous programming and how techniques have changed as new features have been added to Microsoft .NET. Jason covers event-based asynchronous programming and callback-based asynchronous programming, and he introduces us to the new Async feature, which lets developers drastically simplify asynchronous programming. This geekSpeak is hosted by Glen Gordon and Peter Laudati.

The geekSpeak series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by Microsoft developer evangelists. These experts share their knowledge and experience and answer your questions during the webcast. Visit the geekSpeak blog for resources or to ask a question before a live webcast. Visit the geekSpeak blog for resources or to ask a question before a live webcast.

Guest: Jason Rainwater, Independent Consultant, Veracity Solutions

Jason Rainwater is an independent consultant contracting to Veracity Solutions and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Client Application Development. His specialties include an in-depth knowledge of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Microsoft Silverlight, and XAML. He has built modular WPF and Silverlight smart client applications using Model View ViewModel (MVVM) and Prism. Jason is a frequent speaker in his local and regional communities; events he has spoken at include many user groups, code camps, and a few specialty events.

Building Silverlight and Windows Phone Applications that Consume SQL Azure

MSDN Online Media — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:01:25 GMT

This one hour video will teach you a great deal in a short time, covering a wide range of topics and technologies. Here are a few of the technologies covered: SQL Azure, Windows Phone 7, ADO.NET Entity Framework, and Silverlight. Along the way, a lot of powerful tools are demonstrated Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Phone Developer Toolkit, SQL Azure Migration Wizard. This screencast starts with the creation of a Silverlight application consuming an on-premise SQL Server instance using the ADO.NET Entity Framework.

Next, a double migration takes place. First, we migrate the on-premise database to SQL Azure using the SQL Migration Wizard. Next, we take our Silverlight application and port it to Windows Phone 7. By the end of the demo we have a Windows Phone 7 application consuming data from the cloud, specifically SQL Azure.

Presenter: Bruno Terkaly, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

Starting with Turbo C and 8086 Assembler in the late 80s, Bruno has kept busy teaching and writing code in a multitude of platforms, languages, frameworks, SDKs, libraries, and APIs. Bruno's depth of knowledge comes from years of experience in the field, where he can bring real-world knowledge and combine it with forward thinking that is required for his current role as a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft. Prior to evangelism, Bruno was a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, helping customers in remote locations on a moment's notice to help with extreme troubleshooting scenarios, including problem isolation and correction, live and post-mortem debugging, on-the-fly application design and code reviews, performance tuning (IIS, SQL Server, .NET), application stability, porting / migration assistance, configuration management, pre-rollout testing and general development consulting. As an evangelist, Bruno spends time writing code and giving live presentations on building cloud based applications, specifically using the Windows Azure Platform. He also takes a strong interest in Mobile Computing and is convinced that both mobile and cloud platforms, separately and together, are poised for huge growth over the next 10 years.

MSDN Radio: Building Business Apps with Silverlight with John Papa

MSDN Online Media — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:41:44 GMT

Microsoft Silverlight provides a deep framework that gives developers the ability to rapidly integrate data and rich presentation to build applications—this also provides businesses the insight they need from their data. This week we chat with John Papa, host of Silverlight TV, who is hosting a global live streamed Silverlight Firestarter on December 2 to arm designers and developers with the skills needed to create rich business applications with Silverlight. This show is hosted by Mike Benkovich and Mithun Dhar.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. For previous and upcoming shows visit www.MSDNRadio.com.

Guest: John Papa, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

Previously a Microsoft Silverlight MVP, INETA speaker, and member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders—John Papa is now a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft. John specializes in professional application development with Microsoft technologies including Silverlight, WPF, C#, .NET and SQL Server. John has written over 70 articles and authored 9 books including “Data Driven Services with Silverlight”. He can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as MIX, PDC, VSLive and DevConnections; speaking at user groups around the country; and viewed on MSDN webcasts. John also hosts the annual Silverlight MIXer, a gathering of some of the most influential members of the Silverlight community.

Windows Azure Jump Start (12): Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:50:06 GMT

Building Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

This is Part 2 of a two-part section and also includes some Q&A discussion covering various aspects of content from the entire course. Approaches to caching and cache storage, as well as the automation of scaling are among the topics covered.

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

As you’re enjoying the videos, you can access the content for this class, student files and links to demo code at the Windows Azure Born To Learn Forum.

Access to Windows Azure for the labs:
●     Free Windows Azure Platform 30-day pass for US-based students (use promo code: MSL001)
●     MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
●     Free access for CPLS, Partners: https://partner.microsoft.com/40118760
●     Options for all others: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers

Learn more about the Windows Azure Platform through training and certification options from Microsoft Learning.

Session 01: Windows Azure Overview
Session 02: Introduction to Compute
Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1
Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2
Session 05: Windows Azure Storage, Part 1
Session 06: Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Session 07: Introduction to SQL Azure
Session 08: Windows Azure Diagnostics
Session 09: Windows Azure Security, Part 1
Session 10: Windows Azure Security, Part 2
Session 11: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1
Session 12: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

Windows Azure Jump Start (11): Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:49:51 GMT

Building Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

This is Part 1 of a two-part section and helps learners understand how to ensure appropriate scalability, caching and elasticity into their applications using the Windows Azure Platform. Achieving linear scale, scaling up vs. scaling out, and choosing VM sizes are covered.

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

As you’re enjoying the videos, you can access the content for this class, student files and links to demo code at the Windows Azure Born To Learn Forum.

Access to Windows Azure for the labs:
●     Free Windows Azure Platform 30-day pass for US-based students (use promo code: MSL001)
●     MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
●     Free access for CPLS, Partners: https://partner.microsoft.com/40118760
●     Options for all others: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers

Learn more about the Windows Azure Platform through training and certification options from Microsoft Learning.

Session 01: Windows Azure Overview
Session 02: Introduction to Compute
Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1
Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2
Session 05: Windows Azure Storage, Part 1
Session 06: Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Session 07: Introduction to SQL Azure
Session 08: Windows Azure Diagnostics
Session 09: Windows Azure Security, Part 1
Session 10: Windows Azure Security, Part 2
Session 11: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1
Session 12: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

Windows Azure Jump Start (10): Windows Azure Security, Part 2

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:49:31 GMT

Building Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

This is Part 2 of a two-part section and walks users through options for Security in the Cloud. It covers Access Control Service (ACS) and Shared Access Signatures.

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

As you’re enjoying the videos, you can access the content for this class, student files and links to demo code at the Windows Azure Born To Learn Forum.

Access to Windows Azure for the labs:
●     Free Windows Azure Platform 30-day pass for US-based students (use promo code: MSL001)
●     MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
●     Free access for CPLS, Partners: https://partner.microsoft.com/40118760
●     Options for all others: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers

Learn more about the Windows Azure Platform through training and certification options from Microsoft Learning.

Session 01: Windows Azure Overview
Session 02: Introduction to Compute
Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1
Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2
Session 05: Windows Azure Storage, Part 1
Session 06: Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Session 07: Introduction to SQL Azure
Session 08: Windows Azure Diagnostics
Session 09: Windows Azure Security, Part 1
Session 10: Windows Azure Security, Part 2
Session 11: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1
Session 12: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

Windows Azure Jump Start (09): Windows Azure Security, Part 1

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:49:17 GMT

Building Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

This is Part 1 of a two-part section and walks users through options for Security in the Cloud. It covers the advantages and disadvantages of Role base Identity vs. Claim based Identity and Windows Identity Framework (WIF).

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

As you’re enjoying the videos, you can access the content for this class, student files and links to demo code at the Windows Azure Born To Learn Forum.

Access to Windows Azure for the labs:
●     Free Windows Azure Platform 30-day pass for US-based students (use promo code: MSL001)
●     MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
●     Free access for CPLS, Partners: https://partner.microsoft.com/40118760
●     Options for all others: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers

Learn more about the Windows Azure Platform through training and certification options from Microsoft Learning.

Session 01: Windows Azure Overview
Session 02: Introduction to Compute
Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1
Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2
Session 05: Windows Azure Storage, Part 1
Session 06: Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Session 07: Introduction to SQL Azure
Session 08: Windows Azure Diagnostics
Session 09: Windows Azure Security, Part 1
Session 10: Windows Azure Security, Part 2
Session 11: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1
Session 12: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

Windows Azure Jump Start (08): Windows Azure Diagnostics

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:49:04 GMT

Building Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

This session walks users through how to perform diagnostics in the Cloud. It covers the Diagnostics Monitor, ways to collect diagnostics data, persisting data in Windows Azure Storage and common usage scenarios.

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

As you’re enjoying the videos, you can access the content for this class, student files and links to demo code at the Windows Azure Born To Learn Forum.

Access to Windows Azure for the labs:
●     Free Windows Azure Platform 30-day pass for US-based students (use promo code: MSL001)
●     MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
●     Free access for CPLS, Partners: https://partner.microsoft.com/40118760
●     Options for all others: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers

Learn more about the Windows Azure Platform through training and certification options from Microsoft Learning.

Session 01: Windows Azure Overview
Session 02: Introduction to Compute
Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1
Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2
Session 05: Windows Azure Storage, Part 1
Session 06: Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Session 07: Introduction to SQL Azure
Session 08: Windows Azure Diagnostics
Session 09: Windows Azure Security, Part 1
Session 10: Windows Azure Security, Part 2
Session 11: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1
Session 12: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

Windows Azure Jump Start (07): Introduction to SQL Azure

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:48:46 GMT

Building Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

This session provides an introduction to SQL Azure, including Motivation, Architecture, Working with SQL Azure and Sync.

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

As you’re enjoying the videos, you can access the content for this class, student files and links to demo code at the Windows Azure Born To Learn Forum.

Access to Windows Azure for the labs:
●     Free Windows Azure Platform 30-day pass for US-based students (use promo code: MSL001)
●     MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
●     Free access for CPLS, Partners: https://partner.microsoft.com/40118760
●     Options for all others: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers

Learn more about the Windows Azure Platform through training and certification options from Microsoft Learning.

Session 01: Windows Azure Overview
Session 02: Introduction to Compute
Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1
Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2
Session 05: Windows Azure Storage, Part 1
Session 06: Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Session 07: Introduction to SQL Azure
Session 08: Windows Azure Diagnostics
Session 09: Windows Azure Security, Part 1
Session 10: Windows Azure Security, Part 2
Session 11: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1
Session 12: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

Windows Azure Jump Start (06): Windows Azure Storage, Part 2

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:48:24 GMT

Building Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

This is Part 2 of a two-part section and covers the following options for storage as well as ways to access storage when leveraging the Windows Azure Platform: Queues, Tables, RESTful web services.

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

As you’re enjoying the videos, you can access the content for this class, student files and links to demo code at the Windows Azure Born To Learn Forum.

Access to Windows Azure for the labs:
●     Free Windows Azure Platform 30-day pass for US-based students (use promo code: MSL001)
●     MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
●     Free access for CPLS, Partners: https://partner.microsoft.com/40118760
●     Options for all others: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers

Learn more about the Windows Azure Platform through training and certification options from Microsoft Learning.

Session 01: Windows Azure Overview
Session 02: Introduction to Compute
Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1
Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2
Session 05: Windows Azure Storage, Part 1
Session 06: Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Session 07: Introduction to SQL Azure
Session 08: Windows Azure Diagnostics
Session 09: Windows Azure Security, Part 1
Session 10: Windows Azure Security, Part 2
Session 11: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1
Session 12: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

Windows Azure Jump Start (05): Windows Azure Storage, Part 1

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:48:10 GMT

Building Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

This is Part 1 of a two-part section and covers the following options for storage as well as ways to access storage when leveraging the Windows Azure Platform: Non-Relational Storage, Relational SQL Azure Storage, Blobs, Drives, RESTful web services, and Content Delivery Networks (CDN).

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

As you’re enjoying the videos, you can access the content for this class, student files and links to demo code at the Windows Azure Born To Learn Forum.

Access to Windows Azure for the labs:
●     Free Windows Azure Platform 30-day pass for US-based students (use promo code: MSL001)
●     MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
●     Free access for CPLS, Partners: https://partner.microsoft.com/40118760
●     Options for all others: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers

Learn more about the Windows Azure Platform through training and certification options from Microsoft Learning.

Session 01: Windows Azure Overview
Session 02: Introduction to Compute
Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1
Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2
Session 05: Windows Azure Storage, Part 1
Session 06: Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Session 07: Introduction to SQL Azure
Session 08: Windows Azure Diagnostics
Session 09: Windows Azure Security, Part 1
Session 10: Windows Azure Security, Part 2
Session 11: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1
Session 12: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

Windows Azure Jump Start (04): Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:47:56 GMT

Building Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

This is Part 2 of a two-part section and covers the following components of the Application Life Cycle: Testing, Management, Scale and Upgrade.

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

As you’re enjoying the videos, you can access the content for this class, student files and links to demo code at the Windows Azure Born To Learn Forum.

Access to Windows Azure for the labs:
●     Free Windows Azure Platform 30-day pass for US-based students (use promo code: MSL001)
●     MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
●     Free access for CPLS, Partners: https://partner.microsoft.com/40118760
●     Options for all others: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers

Learn more about the Windows Azure Platform through training and certification options from Microsoft Learning.

Session 01: Windows Azure Overview
Session 02: Introduction to Compute
Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1
Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2
Session 05: Windows Azure Storage, Part 1
Session 06: Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Session 07: Introduction to SQL Azure
Session 08: Windows Azure Diagnostics
Session 09: Windows Azure Security, Part 1
Session 10: Windows Azure Security, Part 2
Session 11: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1
Session 12: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

Windows Azure Jump Start (03): Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:47:38 GMT

Building Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

This is Part 1 of a two-part section and covers the following components of the Application Life Cycle: Design, Development, and Deployment.

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

As you’re enjoying the videos, you can access the content for this class, student files and links to demo code at the Windows Azure Born To Learn Forum.

Access to Windows Azure for the labs:
●     Free Windows Azure Platform 30-day pass for US-based students (use promo code: MSL001)
●     MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
●     Free access for CPLS, Partners: https://partner.microsoft.com/40118760
●     Options for all others: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers

Learn more about the Windows Azure Platform through training and certification options from Microsoft Learning.

Session 01: Windows Azure Overview
Session 02: Introduction to Compute
Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1
Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2
Session 05: Windows Azure Storage, Part 1
Session 06: Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Session 07: Introduction to SQL Azure
Session 08: Windows Azure Diagnostics
Session 09: Windows Azure Security, Part 1
Session 10: Windows Azure Security, Part 2
Session 11: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1
Session 12: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

Windows Azure Jump Start (02): Introduction to Compute

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:47:21 GMT

Building Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

This session deals with options for sensitive data, considerations from a legal and regulatory perspective, and the availability of Cloud resources.

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

As you’re enjoying the videos, you can access the content for this class, student files and links to demo code at the Windows Azure Born To Learn Forum.

Access to Windows Azure for the labs:
●     Free Windows Azure Platform 30-day pass for US-based students (use promo code: MSL001)
●     MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
●     Free access for CPLS, Partners: https://partner.microsoft.com/40118760
●     Options for all others: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers

Learn more about the Windows Azure Platform through training and certification options from Microsoft Learning.

Session 01: Windows Azure Overview
Session 02: Introduction to Compute
Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1
Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2
Session 05: Windows Azure Storage, Part 1
Session 06: Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Session 07: Introduction to SQL Azure
Session 08: Windows Azure Diagnostics
Session 09: Windows Azure Security, Part 1
Session 10: Windows Azure Security, Part 2
Session 11: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1
Session 12: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

Windows Azure Jump Start (01): Windows Azure Overview

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:47:02 GMT

Building Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure Platform

This session provides an engaging overview of why the Cloud is such a popular choice for applications, and how the Windows Azure Platform is the best alternative for you and your team.

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

As you’re enjoying the videos, you can access the content for this class, student files and links to demo code at the Windows Azure Born To Learn Forum.

Access to Windows Azure for the labs:
●     Free Windows Azure Platform 30-day pass for US-based students (use promo code: MSL001)
●     MSDN Subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
●     Free access for CPLS, Partners: https://partner.microsoft.com/40118760
●     Options for all others: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers

Learn more about the Windows Azure Platform through training and certification options from Microsoft Learning.

Session 01: Windows Azure Overview
Session 02: Introduction to Compute
Session 03: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 1
Session 04: Windows Azure Lifecycle, Part 2
Session 05: Windows Azure Storage, Part 1
Session 06: Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Session 07: Introduction to SQL Azure
Session 08: Windows Azure Diagnostics
Session 09: Windows Azure Security, Part 1
Session 10: Windows Azure Security, Part 2
Session 11: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 1
Session 12: Scalability, Caching & Elasticity, Part 2, and Q&A

MSDN Radio: Social @Microsoft with Chris Slemp

MSDN Online Media — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:04:57 GMT

This week we talk about the social strategies Microsoft is using to connect and empower its almost 100,000 employees. We sit down with Chris Slemp, a Program Manager overseeing a number of these efforts. We’ll talk about his experience, interesting collaborations tools, and communication platforms that Microsoft’s IT department built to connect and foster collaboration. Submit your questions via Twitter to Mike Benkovich, @mbenko, or Mithun Dhar, @mithund and append hash tag #msdnradio.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. For previous and upcoming shows visit, www.msdnradio.com.

Guest: Chris Slemp, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation