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Short walkthrough for exporting a certificate for Remote Desktop access to Azure.

Did you know you can get a 30-day trial account to try out Windows Azure - no strings attached!  Check out this screencast and get your head (and code) into the clouds!

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Did you know that Windows Azure is free for everyone to use, as in gratis, no cost, complimentary? 

Okay, there are some limitations, but if you want to kick the tires of cloud computing, the Introductory Special includes a recurring monthly allocation of computation, storage, and AppFabric services...

If you're an MSDN Premium or Ultimate subscriber, and you haven't signed up for your Windows Azure benefits, you're leaving money on the table - to the tune of about $150 worth of Windows Azure compute, storage, and App Fabric services each month!

Signing up is a snap: it'll take you less than 10 minutes,...

Is cloud computing still a foggy concept for you? Have you heard of Windows Azure, but aren’t quite sure of how it applies to you and the projects you’re working on?

Windows Azure was first announced at the Microsoft PDC in 2008.  A year later, shortly after PDC 09, Windows Azure went into production. ...

Is cloud computing still a foggy concept for you? Have you heard of Windows Azure, but aren’t quite sure of how it applies to you and the projects you’re working on?

Windows Azure was first announced at the Microsoft PDC in 2008.  A year later, shortly after PDC 09, Windows Azure went into production. ...

Is cloud computing still a foggy concept for you? Have you heard of Windows Azure, but aren’t quite sure of how it applies to you and the projects you’re working on?

Windows Azure was first announced at the Microsoft PDC in 2008.  A year later, shortly after PDC 09, Windows Azure went into production. ...

Most of the attention of cloud computing is focused on leveraging the elasticity and self-provisioning power of virtual machines in the "cloud," but what about your data?  Windows Azure has several options for hosting your data - Azure tables, Azure blobs, and SQL Azure - what do...

In this brief screencast, Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist in the Northeast, walks through a few quick demos of some of the new language features (in both Visual Basic and C#) that were introduced with .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010.

If you're looking for a particular feature, you can fast forward...

In this brief look at Silverlight 4 from the May 2010 Northeast Roadshow, Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist, confesses he's just looking at the cool stuff here - webcam and microphone support, COM interoperability, printing, and even a bit of rickrolling (shhh! don't give it away).  Get a...