Cloud Cover - Channel 9

Episode 70 - Windows Azure Demos with Steve Marx

Wade Wegner — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:45:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, we are very sad to bid Steve Marx farewell as he looks for new challenges outside of Microsoft. Fortunately, we're able to share some of his best moments on the Cloud Cover show and review some of the best demos he's built over the years.

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You can stay in touch with Steve Marx through his blog at http://blog.smarx.com/.

Episode 69 - SQL Azure Federations with George Huey

Wade Wegner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:58:19 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Wade is joined by George Huey—Principal Architect Evangelist for Microsoft—to discuss how to scale-out with SQL Azure Federations. George is the author and creator of the SQL Azure Migration Wizard and the SQL Azure Federation Data Migration Wizard.

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Episode 68 - Throttling in SQL Azure with Scott Klein

Steve Marx, Wade Wegner — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:20:10 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Wade and Steve are joined by Scott Klein, Technical Evangelist for SQL Azure, who explains how to understand, diagnose, and handle throttling in SQL Azure. He also demonstrates how to use the Transient Fault Handling Application Block.

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Tip of the week: Dealing with "cannot create database" in the Windows Azure storage emulator.

Episode 67 - Technical Computing with Windows Azure and Wenming Ye

Wade Wegner — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:39:21 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Wade is joined by Wenming Ye—Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure—who explains how to use HPC on Windows Azure. Wenming shows how you can use Windows Azure to process massive amounts of work without having to own a Cray computer (even though he himself has three).

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Episode 66 - Using Windows Azure Storage from the Windows Phone

Wade Wegner — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Wade walks through the NuGet packages for Windows Azure storage and Windows Phone, highlighting how easy it is to interact with blobs, tables, and queues, both directly against storage and securely through proxy services.

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Update:

To accomodate addition NuGet packages in the future, we have made a few minor changes:

WindowsAzure.Storage -> WindowsAzure.Storage.Proxy
WindowsAzure.Storage.AccessControl -> WindowsAzure.Storage.Proxy.AccessControl
WindowsAzure.Storage.Membership -> WindowsAzure.Storage.Proxy.Membership

We have updated other NuGet packages (i.e. Phone.Storage and WindowsPhone.Notifications.ManagementUI.Sample) to reflect these changes.

Episode 65 - New Windows Azure SDK and Tools with Scott Guthrie

Wade Wegner — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Steve and Wade are joined by Scott Guthrie—Corporate Vice President at Microsoft—who walks them through some recent updates to the Windows Azure SDK & Tools. In particular, Scott highlights new ways to easily create and publish applications directly from Visual Studio.

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For the tip of the week, both Steve and Wade posted tips for managing the .publishsettings file for certificate management:

Episode 64 - Adding Push Notifications to Windows Phone Apps

Steve Marx, Wade Wegner — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:27:01 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Wade is joined by former Cloud Cover host, Ryan Dunn. In addition to discussing Ryan's exploits post-Microsoft, Wade demonstrates new tools his team is building to make it easier to add push notification support to Windows Phone apps by using composable NuGet packages with Windows Azure.

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As a special bonus, Ryan has given friends of the Cloud Cover Show access to a new tool he's building called ManageAxis—click here to learn more.

Episode 63 - Securely Sharing Files with Windows Azure

Steve Marx, Wade Wegner — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Wade shows a new sample application called BlobShare. The BlobShare Sample is a simple file sharing application that demonstrates the storage services of the Windows Azure Platform together with the authentication and authorization capabilities of Access Control Service (ACS).

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Episode 62 - Marketplace with Christian Liensberger

Steve Marx — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Christian Liensberger, Program Manager for the Windows Azure Marketplace, joins Steve and Wade to talk about data and apps in the Marketplace.

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Tweet to Christian at @littleguru.

Cloud Cover Episode 61 - Updates to SQL Azure Database with Roger Doherty

Steve Marx — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Roger Doherty, Technical Evangelist for SQL Server and SQL Azure, joins Steve and Wade to discuss recent updates to SQL Azure database.

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Tweet to Roger at @doherty100.

Episode 60 - Introducing the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0

Steve Marx, Wade Wegner — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Michael Washam, Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure, joins Steve and Wade to discuss the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets.

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Tweet to Michael at @MWashamMS.

Episode 59 - Using the Windows Push Notification Service with Windows Azure

Wade Wegner — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Nick Harris—Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure—joins Steve and Wade to discuss the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8. Nick provides background on the Windows Push Notification Service, and shows how to go about building and running a Metro-style app that uses push notifications managed by services running in Windows Azure.

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Episode 58 - Exploring the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android

Steve Marx, Wade Wegner — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:23:47 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Steve and Wade cover the recent release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android, along with updates to the Windows Azure Toolkits for Windows Phone and iOS. Additionally, Steve discusses some tips for managing topology changes with the RoleEnvironment Changing event.

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Episode 57 - Windows Azure Page Blobs with Brent Stineman

Steve Marx — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Steve and Wade are joined by Brent Stineman, a Windows Azure MVP, who shows us how to use page blobs in Windows Azure to do random access reads and writes. He even shows a demo of downloading a blob while it's being created.

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Brent's blog posts about page blobs:

A Page at a Time (Page Blobs - Year of Azure Week 7)
Page, After Page, After Page (Year of Azure Week 8) (includes the full source code for Brent's demo)

*Correction: Smarx had it wrong (and convinced Wade and Brent)! Page blobs have a maximum size of one terabyte, not two terabytes as stated in the show.

Episode 56 - Logging, Tracing, and ELMAH in Windows Azure

Wade Wegner — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Steve and Wade discuss logging and tracing on Windows Azure using both blobs and tables. Steve explains his Printf("HERE") in the Cloud approach for logging as well as Lightweight Tracing to Windows Azure Tables, and Wade shows an approach for Using ELMAH in Windows Azure with Table Storage.

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Episode 55 - Visual Studio LightSwitch with Jay Schmelzer

Wade Wegner — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:03:04 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Wade is joined by Jay Schmelzer—Principal Director of PM in Visual Studio Biz Apps—to discuss Visual Studio LightSwitch and its relationship to Windows Azure. Jay takes the time to explain the purpose of LightSwitch and show multiple demonstrations of how you can use services in the Windows Azure Platform to build line of business applications.

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Episode 54 - Storage Analytics and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 1.4

Wade Wegner — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:58:24 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Steve and Wade dig into new tools and capabilities of the Windows Azure Platform—the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 1.4 and Windows Azure Storage Analytics. To provide additional background on these features, Wade and Steve have written the following blog posts:

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Episode 53 - Scott Guthrie Discusses Windows Azure

Wade Wegner — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Steve and Wade are joined by Scott Guthrie—Corporate Vice President, Server & Tools Business—who talks about what he's been focused on with Windows Azure. In this conversation, Scott talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly, and also shows code along the way.

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Episode 52 - Tankster and the Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games

Wade Wegner — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Steve and Wade talk about the newly released Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games. The toolkit enables unique capabilities for social gaming prerequisites, such as storing user profiles, maintaining leader boards, in-app purchasing, and more. The toolkit also comes complete with reusable server side code and documentation, as well as Tankster, a new proof-of-concept game built with HTML5.

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Episode 51 - Web Deploy and the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles

Wade Wegner — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Nathan Totten—Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure—talks to Steve about using the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles to quickly and easily deploy one or more websites across multiple Web Role instances using Web Deploy. When using this accelerator with Web Deploy, deployments only take about 30 seconds and are durably stored in Windows Azure storage.

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Be sure to check out http://windowsazure.com/events to see events where Windows Azure will be present!

Episode 50 - Matt Winkler Builds an AppFabric Application

Wade Wegner — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Matthew Winkler—Senior Program Manager Lead on the AppFabric Team—talks to Steve and Wade about building AppFabric Applications. AppFabric Applications bring new ways of building, running, and managing applications at scale in Windows Azure. The June CTP of AppFabric includes support for AppFabric Applications, and you can start by downloading the new SDK and Developer Tools and by signing up for a free account at the AppFabric Labs portal.

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Be sure to check out http://windowsazure.com/events to see events where Windows Azure will be present!

Episode 49 - Access Control in the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

Steve Marx — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Vittorio Bertocci joins Steve as they discuss the role of Windows Azure Access Control in the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.

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Be sure to check out http://windowsazure.com/events to see events where Windows Azure will be present!

Cloud Cover Episode 48 - Node.js, Ruby, and Python in Windows Azure

Steve Marx — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:23:03 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Nathan Totten joins Steve as they discuss the Smarx Role, an easy way to run Node.js, Ruby, and Python in Windows Azure. Nate also shows off his Windows Azure CDN Helpers, which make optimizing your ASP.NET MVC application for caching static content like JavaScript and CSS a breeze.

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Cloud Cover Episode 47 - Queues and Topics in the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus

Steve Marx — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:29:28 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Brent Stineman joins Steve to discuss the newly-released Topics and Queues features in the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus.

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Read more about Queues and Topics and get the full source code for Brent's demo app over on his blog.

Cloud Cover Episode 46 - Windows Azure Traffic Manager

Wade Wegner — Fri, 13 May 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Steve and Wade discuss the Windows Azure Traffic Manager. Traffic Manager provides several ways to load balance traffic to multiple hosted services. You can choose from three load balancing methods: Performance, Failover, or Round Robin. Watch as Wade demonstrates how to configure Traffic Manager policies and test with your own applications.

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Grab the source code for the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS.