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In Part 18 of his Windows Azure series, Jim O’Neil looks at Windows Azure Service Bus. Windows Azure Service Bus provides a hosted, secure, and widely available infrastructure for widespread communication, large-scale event distribution, naming, and service publishing. Tune in as he describes and demos four scenarios in which you can utilize this service in your environment.


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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/Microsoft-DevRadio-Part-18-Practical-Azure-with-Jim-ONeil--Service-Bus Like what you heard? Try Windows Azure for FREE and enjoy the freedom to use your preferred OS, language, database or tool. Windows Azure can help you deploy sites to a highly scalable environment, deploy and run virtual machines, and create highly scalable application in a rich PaaS environment. Give it a try! _________________ Abstract: In Part 18 of his Windows Azure series, Jim O’Neil looks at Windows Azure Service Bus. Windows Azure Service Bus provides a hosted, secure, and widely available infrastructure for widespread communication, large-scale event distribution, naming, and service publishing. Tune in as he describes and demos four scenarios in which you can utilize this service in your environment. After watching this video, follow these next steps: Step #1 – Try Windows Azure: No cost. No obligation. 90-Day FREE trial. Step #2 – Download the Tools for Windows 8 App Development Step #3 – Start building your own Apps for Windows 8 Subscribe to our podcast via iTunes or RSS If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information: Register for our Windows Azure Hands-on Lab Online (HOLO) events today! Windows Azure Hands-on Labs Online Videos: (Part 1) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil – Azure Basics (Part 2) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil – What to do with Blobs? (Part 3) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil–Why do we need Drives? (Part 4) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil–Using the Content Delivery Network (CDN) (Part 5) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil –Table Storage Overview (Part 6) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil – Windows Azure SQL Database (Part 7) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil – SQL Database Federations (Part 8) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil –SQL Data Sync (Part 9) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil – Windows Azure Web Sites (Part 10) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil – Web Roles (Part 11) Practical Azure with Jim O’Neil – Worker Roles (Part 12) Practical 686 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/Microsoft-DevRadio-Part-18-Practical-Azure-with-Jim-ONeil--Service-Bus Mon, 13 May 2013 11:00:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/Microsoft-DevRadio-Part-18-Practical-Azure-with-Jim-ONeil--Service-Bus Jim O'Neil, DevRadio, ChrisCaldwell Jim O'Neil, DevRadio, ChrisCaldwell 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevRadio/Microsoft-DevRadio-Part-18-Practical-Azure-with-Jim-ONeil--Service-Bus/RSS Azure Services Azure Services Platform Service Bus Windows Azure Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start: (09) Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services And where would we be if we could not scale it all up or down. This flexibility can be provided with Windows Azure. Here you will see how Windows Azure fits in with mobile services, virtual machines while managing caching and storage.

Full course outline:

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Building-Web-Apps-with-ASP-NET-Jump-Start/Building-Web-Apps-with-ASPNET-Jump-Start-09-Taking-Advantage-of-Windows-Azure-Services And where would we be if we could not scale it all up or down. This flexibility can be provided with Windows Azure. Here you will see how Windows Azure fits in with mobile services, virtual machines while managing caching and storage. [01:20] - Azure signup [08:45] - Single serving sites [15:36] - Azure command line [20:06] - Wrap-up Full course outline: Mod 01: What's New in ASP.NET 4.5 Mod 02: Building and Deploying Websites with ASP.NET MVC 4 Mod 03: Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery Mod 04: Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API Mod 05: Leveraging Your ASP.NET Development Skills to Build Office Apps Mod 06: Building and Leveraging Social Services in ASP.NET Mod 07: Building for the Mobile Web Mod 08: Real-time Communication with SignalR Mod 09: Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services 1529 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Building-Web-Apps-with-ASP-NET-Jump-Start/Building-Web-Apps-with-ASPNET-Jump-Start-09-Taking-Advantage-of-Windows-Azure-Services Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:54:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Building-Web-Apps-with-ASP-NET-Jump-Start/Building-Web-Apps-with-ASPNET-Jump-Start-09-Taking-Advantage-of-Windows-Azure-Services JeffKoch JeffKoch 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Building-Web-Apps-with-ASP-NET-Jump-Start/Building-Web-Apps-with-ASPNET-Jump-Start-09-Taking-Advantage-of-Windows-Azure-Services/RSS ASP.NET 4 Azure Services Windows Azure Canada Does Windows Azure: Connect2Fans Read the full post >>

Host Jonathan Rozenblit is always on the search for stories of Canadian developers who have either built new applications using Windows Azure services or have migrated existing applications to Windows Azure. Canada Does Windows Azure shares their stories.

This is the story of Connect2Fans.

CONNECT2FANS
Connect2Fans set its mission to create a platform which artists, athletes, entertainers, organizations and teams of all sizes can use to sell a variety of products directly to their fans. Using a PayPal account, any individual or small entertainment enterprise can enjoy the power of the Web to sell event tickets, CDs, MP3s, and other memorabilia directly to their fans. This direct-to-fan sales approach dramatically reduces the present day costs for both buyers and sellers. C2F only charges the seller a very modest fee for this transaction service. What the buyer sees is what the buyer pays; no more annoying add-ons.

JASON LAVIGNE
Jason Lavigne is the Lead Software Architect for Connect2Fans and a co-founder of the company. He has been developing software on various technologies, including Microsoft, for over 25 years and most recently in the event ticketing segment of the entertainment industry.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/CanadaDoesAzure/connect2fans Read the full post >> Host Jonathan Rozenblit is always on the search for stories of Canadian developers who have either built new applications using Windows Azure services or have migrated existing applications to Windows Azure. Canada Does Windows Azure shares their stories. This is the story of Connect2Fans. CONNECT2FANSConnect2Fans set its mission to create a platform which artists, athletes, entertainers, organizations and teams of all sizes can use to sell a variety of products directly to their fans. Using a PayPal account, any individual or small entertainment enterprise can enjoy the power of the Web to sell event tickets, CDs, MP3s, and other memorabilia directly to their fans. This direct-to-fan sales approach dramatically reduces the present day costs for both buyers and sellers. C2F only charges the seller a very modest fee for this transaction service. What the buyer sees is what the buyer pays; no more annoying add-ons. JASON LAVIGNEJason Lavigne is the Lead Software Architect for Connect2Fans and a co-founder of the company. He has been developing software on various technologies, including Microsoft, for over 25 years and most recently in the event ticketing segment of the entertainment industry. 1490 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/CanadaDoesAzure/connect2fans Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:45:01 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/CanadaDoesAzure/connect2fans Jonathan Rozenblit Jonathan Rozenblit 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/CanadaDoesAzure/connect2fans/RSS Amazon AWS Azure Azure Services Azure Storage Cloud Computing Windows Azure CDN Auto Dealers Get Quotes Fast with SmartQuote from ResponseLogix on Azure SmartQuote from ResponseLogix is the leading provider of automotive digital response management software for Internet leads. SmartQuote allows car dealers to provide a relevant quote response within 10 minutes of Internet lead receipt.

ReponseLogix has integrated best of breed internet marketing practices and advanced internet marketing technology to deliver consumers an immersive and enjoyable car buying experience, and dealers higher close rates on internet leads. Auto dealers can now deliver a feature-rich, comprehensive and personalized, web-based quote response within minutes of Internet lead receipt, followed by a 180-day follow-up program with both email and web marketing dimensions.

Jagdish Rajan, VP Technology at ResponseLogix talks with Architect Evangelist Allan Naim of Microsoft about their choice of Windows Azure.

ResponseLogix chose Azure for cost effectiveness, worldwide development access, ease to deploy from staging to production. Recommends using Azure storage for read only data and PowerShell scripts for deployment to the Azure staging server.

About ResponseLogix, Inc.

ResponseLogix started in a car dealership. By observing the internet car buying sales process from both the dealer and the customer side, ResponseLogix determined that effective Digital Response Management is the key to achieving both immediate initial response and effective ongoing follow-up. With this in mind, the company created its powerful patent-pending solution suite, tailored to the needs of the fast-paced, multi-tasking dealer internet selling environment.

ResponseLogix delivers software as a service (SaaS) technology to auto dealers that engages the customer early in the car buying process and then propels her toward purchase. SmartQuote® delivers a relevant quote response within 10 minutes of internet lead receipt 95% of the time. SmartFollow® automatically follows-up and reactivates leads if the customer doesn't buy right away. SmartFacts® delivers powerful analytics to help optimize the performance of Internet sales departments. ResponseLogix products are available in 40 US markets for Toyota, Ford, Lincoln-Mercury, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Honda, Lexus, Audi, Acura, Nissan, Infiniti, Kia, Hyundai and Volkswagen dealers across the US. Additional OEM's will be supported soon. Additional information is available at www.responselogix.com.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/bruceky/Auto-Dealers-Get-Quotes-Fast-with-SmartQuote-from-ResponseLogix-on-Azure SmartQuote from ResponseLogix is the leading provider of automotive digital response management software for Internet leads. SmartQuote allows car dealers to provide a relevant quote response within 10 minutes of Internet lead receipt. ReponseLogix has integrated best of breed internet marketing practices and advanced internet marketing technology to deliver consumers an immersive and enjoyable car buying experience, and dealers higher close rates on internet leads. Auto dealers can now deliver a feature-rich, comprehensive and personalized, web-based quote response within minutes of Internet lead receipt, followed by a 180-day follow-up program with both email and web marketing dimensions. Jagdish Rajan, VP Technology at ResponseLogix talks with Architect Evangelist Allan Naim of Microsoft about their choice of Windows Azure. ResponseLogix chose Azure for cost effectiveness, worldwide development access, ease to deploy from staging to production. Recommends using Azure storage for read only data and PowerShell scripts for deployment to the Azure staging server. About ResponseLogix, Inc.ResponseLogix started in a car dealership. By observing the internet car buying sales process from both the dealer and the customer side, ResponseLogix determined that effective Digital Response Management is the key to achieving both immediate initial response and effective ongoing follow-up. With this in mind, the company created its powerful patent-pending solution suite, tailored to the needs of the fast-paced, multi-tasking dealer internet selling environment. ResponseLogix delivers software as a service (SaaS) technology to auto dealers that engages the customer early in the car buying process and then propels her toward purchase. SmartQuote® delivers a relevant quote response within 10 minutes of internet lead receipt 95% of the time. SmartFollow® automatically follows-up and reactivates leads if the customer doesn't buy right away. SmartFacts® delivers powerful analytics to h 713 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/bruceky/Auto-Dealers-Get-Quotes-Fast-with-SmartQuote-from-ResponseLogix-on-Azure Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:21:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/bruceky/Auto-Dealers-Get-Quotes-Fast-with-SmartQuote-from-ResponseLogix-on-Azure Bruce D Kyle Bruce D Kyle 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/bruceky/Auto-Dealers-Get-Quotes-Fast-with-SmartQuote-from-ResponseLogix-on-Azure/RSS Azure Azure Services Customer & Partner Stories ISV PowerShell US ISV USISV USISVDE Windows Azure Brand Manager Goes Global in the Cloud on Windows Azure Quark Brand Manager provides distributed sales and marketing teams the opportunity to easily create, customize and deliver brand-compliant marketing materials on-demand. Quark chose Windows Azure for this new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution.

Marketing manager for Brand Manager Nick Howard and engineering manager Amit Nayar talk with ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how they chose Windows Azure.

The team describes several Azure features that are key to their choice.

  • Windows Azure helps the scale the application to the right size, up when lots of jobs put big demands on the system, back when demand lessens.
  • It provides global location
  • Able to get to market quicker.
  • More affordable for clients.

The team describes scaling as being able to meet the demands for multiple types of tenants and workloads. So with Azure, the meet the user demands for processing large print jobs, add new customers worldwide, and add users worldwide.

Amit describes how developers expand their current skill set, while learning how to build architecturally sound applications for the cloud. He says, "Developer wouldn't want me to take away Azure now. It just fits the way we want to do business."

Developers can quickly deploy, closing gap between their dev environment and production environment. Easy to replicate between the cloud and development computers. In addition, developers are able to quickly respond to changing needs, making them able to accept business deals that might have been more difficult to implement. Azure a familiar place to the developers.

Amit explains how they do continuous integration with the cloud.

About Brand Manager

Brand Manager helps provide marketing manager with ways to control how those inside and outside the organization use logos, printed material, and business marketing collateral. It provides a workflow for the approval process

  • Create customized, brand-controlled marketing materials, produced by anyone, anywhere.
  • Empower your distributed sales and marketing teams to create personalized and localized sales and marketing materials on-demand, in minutes.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders — such as brand managers, agencies, and legal and subject matter experts — in the review and approval process.
  • Maintain brand consistency and compliance with controlled elements such as colors, fonts, taglines, and logos.
  • Increase efficiency with version control of customized documents so you don't have to waste time searching for the most recent version.
  • Print at your convenience using your in-house printer, your preferred vendor or optionally with the Quark Brand Manager local print network for fast, convenient, cost-effective local printing.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/bruceky/Brand-Manager-Goes-Global-in-the-Cloud-on-Windows-Azure Quark Brand Manager provides distributed sales and marketing teams the opportunity to easily create, customize and deliver brand-compliant marketing materials on-demand. Quark chose Windows Azure for this new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. Marketing manager for Brand Manager Nick Howard and engineering manager Amit Nayar talk with ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how they chose Windows Azure. The team describes several Azure features that are key to their choice. Windows Azure helps the scale the application to the right size, up when lots of jobs put big demands on the system, back when demand lessens. It provides global location Able to get to market quicker. More affordable for clients. The team describes scaling as being able to meet the demands for multiple types of tenants and workloads. So with Azure, the meet the user demands for processing large print jobs, add new customers worldwide, and add users worldwide. Amit describes how developers expand their current skill set, while learning how to build architecturally sound applications for the cloud. He says, "Developer wouldn't want me to take away Azure now. It just fits the way we want to do business." Developers can quickly deploy, closing gap between their dev environment and production environment. Easy to replicate between the cloud and development computers. In addition, developers are able to quickly respond to changing needs, making them able to accept business deals that might have been more difficult to implement. Azure a familiar place to the developers. Amit explains how they do continuous integration with the cloud. About Brand ManagerBrand Manager helps provide marketing manager with ways to control how those inside and outside the organization use logos, printed material, and business marketing collateral. It provides a workflow for the approval process Create customized, brand-controlled marketing materials, produced by anyone, anywhere. Empower your distributed sal 372 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/bruceky/Brand-Manager-Goes-Global-in-the-Cloud-on-Windows-Azure Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:34:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/bruceky/Brand-Manager-Goes-Global-in-the-Cloud-on-Windows-Azure Bruce D Kyle Bruce D Kyle 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/bruceky/Brand-Manager-Goes-Global-in-the-Cloud-on-Windows-Azure/RSS Azure Azure Platform Azure Services But Why Cloud ISV USISV USISVDE Windows Azure Three Screen & A Cloud New Zealand TechEd Keynote Demo During the keynote of Tech.Ed in New Zealand we demonstrated a media future vision built around the premise of live sport, windows phone 7, surface and live smooth streaming. Thanks to  NV Interactive, Sky TV, Michael Kordahi, Jordan Knight, John Papa and Nigel Watson for helping me pull it off.

Watch the whole keynote at http://www.msteched.com/2010/NewZealand/KEY001

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Three-Screen--A-Cloud-New-Zealand-TechEd-Keynote-Demo During the keynote of Tech.Ed in New Zealand we demonstrated a media future vision built around the premise of live sport, windows phone 7, surface and live smooth streaming. Thanks to  NV Interactive, Sky TV, Michael Kordahi, Jordan Knight, John Papa and Nigel Watson for helping me pull it off. Watch the whole keynote at http://www.msteched.com/2010/NewZealand/KEY001 1084 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Three-Screen--A-Cloud-New-Zealand-TechEd-Keynote-Demo Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:48:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Three-Screen--A-Cloud-New-Zealand-TechEd-Keynote-Demo Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Three-Screen--A-Cloud-New-Zealand-TechEd-Keynote-Demo/RSS Azure Azure Services Microsoft Surface MSNZ Silverlight Smooth Streaming Surface Tech Ed Tech.Ed TechEd 2010 Windows Phone 7 WP7 IIS Media Pack Live Smooth Streaming ARCast.TV - David Aiken on Azure Architecture Patterns David Aiken is a Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure. David is responsible for:

·         Bid Now Sample at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/BidNowSample.

·         Windows Azure Platform training kit and Channel 9 learning course.

·         Windows Azure MMC

·         Windows Azure Table Browser

·         Windows Azure Management PowerShell CmdLets

In this episode David talks to Bob Familiar about the architecture patterns that lend themselves to building scalable services for the cloud.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-David-Aiken-on-Azure-Architecture-Patterns David Aiken is a Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure. David is responsible for: ·         Bid Now Sample at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/BidNowSample. ·         Windows Azure Platform training kit and Channel 9 learning course. ·         Windows Azure MMC ·         Windows Azure Table Browser ·         Windows Azure Management PowerShell CmdLets In this episode David talks to Bob Familiar about the architecture patterns that lend themselves to building scalable services for the cloud. 978 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-David-Aiken-on-Azure-Architecture-Patterns Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:06:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-David-Aiken-on-Azure-Architecture-Patterns Bob Familiar Bob Familiar 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-David-Aiken-on-Azure-Architecture-Patterns/RSS ARCast Architects Architecture Azure Services Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Patterns Cloud Services Windows Azure Security in Provisioning and Billing Solutions for Windows Azure Platform This Security Talk Series video with Aleksey Savateyev, Senior Architect at Microsoft provides in-depth overview of the security aspects associated with development against Service Management API (SMAPI) and MOCP, within the context of Cloud Provisioning & Billing (CPB) solution. CPB abstracts and merges operations of MOCP and Windows Azure portals, providing value-add features necessary for cloud resource resellers and cloud ISVs. CPB is primarily targeted at service providers wanting to sell Windows Azure services and resources in combination with their own, and application vendors wanting to give their customers an ability to customize their applications before they get deployed to Windows Azure.

 

Check out the Windows Azure subscription offers at http://bit.ly/AzurePromo

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/egibson/Security-in-Provisioning-and-Billing-Solutions-for-Windows-Azure-Platform This Security Talk Series video with Aleksey Savateyev, Senior Architect at Microsoft provides in-depth overview of the security aspects associated with development against Service Management API (SMAPI) and MOCP, within the context of Cloud Provisioning & Billing (CPB) solution. CPB abstracts and merges operations of MOCP and Windows Azure portals, providing value-add features necessary for cloud resource resellers and cloud ISVs. CPB is primarily targeted at service providers wanting to sell Windows Azure services and resources in combination with their own, and application vendors wanting to give their customers an ability to customize their applications before they get deployed to Windows Azure.   Check out the Windows Azure subscription offers at http://bit.ly/AzurePromo 2062 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/egibson/Security-in-Provisioning-and-Billing-Solutions-for-Windows-Azure-Platform Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:06:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/egibson/Security-in-Provisioning-and-Billing-Solutions-for-Windows-Azure-Platform MSDN Online Media MSDN Online Media 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/egibson/Security-in-Provisioning-and-Billing-Solutions-for-Windows-Azure-Platform/RSS Aleksey Savateyev API Azure Services cloud provisioning & billing CPB DPEField MOCP Security SMAPI Windows Azure Avalara talks about the challenges of Sales Tax solutions and their cloud computing initiatives Avalara talked with Warren Wilbee about cloud computing and its impact on their industry which primarily is around sales tax.

Any tax solution is very much driven by various aspects such as the increase in spending during the holiday season therefore server load is constantly changing which makes Avalara a perfect match for cloud computing and Azure in particular.


Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jodonnell/Avalara-talks-about-the-challenges-of-Sales-Tax-solutions-and-their-cloud-computing-initiatives Scott McFarlane of Avalara talked with Warren Wilbee about cloud computing and its impact on their industry which primarily is around sales tax. Any tax solution is very much driven by various aspects such as the increase in spending during the holiday season therefore server load is constantly changing which makes Avalara a perfect match for cloud computing and Azure in particular.Enjoy the show! John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect EvangelistMicrosoft Corporationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jodonnellhttp://blogs.msdn.com/usisvdehttp://www.twitter.com/jodonnel 460 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jodonnell/Avalara-talks-about-the-challenges-of-Sales-Tax-solutions-and-their-cloud-computing-initiatives Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:39:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jodonnell/Avalara-talks-about-the-challenges-of-Sales-Tax-solutions-and-their-cloud-computing-initiatives John O'Donnell John O'Donnell 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jodonnell/Avalara-talks-about-the-challenges-of-Sales-Tax-solutions-and-their-cloud-computing-initiatives/RSS Azure Azure Platform Azure Services Cloud Computing Dynamics AX Dynamics GP Dynamics NAV FY11 Microsoft Azure Platform Welcome to the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) The Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) is an initiative led by Microsoft Public Sector Developer Evangelism team. OGDI uses the Windows Azure Platform to make it easier to publish and use a wide variety of public data from government agencies. OGDI is also a free, open source ‘starter kit’ with code that can be used to publish data on the Internet in a Web-friendly format with easy-to-use, open API's. OGDI-based web API’s can be accessed from a variety of client technologies such as Silverlight, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, mapping web sites, etc.

Whether you are a business wishing to use government data, a government developer, or a ‘citizen developer’, these open API's will enable you to build innovative applications, visualizations and mash-ups that empower people through access to government information. This site is built using the OGDI starter kit software assets and provides interactive access to some publicly-available data sets along with sample code and resources for writing applications using the OGDI API's.

Email us at askogdi@microsoft.com if you have government data sets that you would like us to publish or if you have other questions

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/keydet/Welcome-to-OGDI The Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) is an initiative led by Microsoft Public Sector Developer Evangelism team. OGDI uses the Windows Azure Platform to make it easier to publish and use a wide variety of public data from government agencies. OGDI is also a free, open source ‘starter kit’ with code that can be used to publish data on the Internet in a Web-friendly format with easy-to-use, open API's. OGDI-based web API’s can be accessed from a variety of client technologies such as Silverlight, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, mapping web sites, etc. Whether you are a business wishing to use government data, a government developer, or a ‘citizen developer’, these open API's will enable you to build innovative applications, visualizations and mash-ups that empower people through access to government information. This site is built using the OGDI starter kit software assets and provides interactive access to some publicly-available data sets along with sample code and resources for writing applications using the OGDI API's. Email us at askogdi@microsoft.com if you have government data sets that you would like us to publish or if you have other questions 870 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/keydet/Welcome-to-OGDI Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:34:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/keydet/Welcome-to-OGDI keydet keydet 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/keydet/Welcome-to-OGDI/RSS Azure Azure Platform Azure Services Azure Services Platform DPEUSPublicSectorTeam Odata Windows Azure Talking with Pervasive Software Inc. about electronic document exchange and Azure Larry Gregory talks with Mike Hoskins of Pervasive Software Inc.

Pervasive Business Exchange is a hosted service for trading busines documents with trading partners. While initially seen as a horizontal solution Larry and Mike talk about how this could target vertical markets such as healthcare. In addition Mike explains some of the issues which led Pervasive to work with the Microsoft Azure Platform.

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jodonnell/Talking-with-Pervasive-Software-Inc-about-electronic-document-exchange-and-Azure Larry Gregory talks with Mike Hoskins of Pervasive Software Inc.Pervasive Business Exchange is a hosted service for trading busines documents with trading partners. While initially seen as a horizontal solution Larry and Mike talk about how this could target vertical markets such as healthcare. In addition Mike explains some of the issues which led Pervasive to work with the Microsoft Azure Platform. Enjoy the show!John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect EvangelistMicrosoft Corporationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/jodonnellhttp://blogs.msdn.com/usisvdehttp://www.twitter.com/jodonnel 367 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jodonnell/Talking-with-Pervasive-Software-Inc-about-electronic-document-exchange-and-Azure Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:52:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jodonnell/Talking-with-Pervasive-Software-Inc-about-electronic-document-exchange-and-Azure John O'Donnell John O'Donnell 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jodonnell/Talking-with-Pervasive-Software-Inc-about-electronic-document-exchange-and-Azure/RSS 2010 Azure Azure Platform Azure Services PSR2010 Sanjay Jain SQL Azure Windows Azure and Partner Opportunities ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/brianjo/Windows-Azure-and-Partner-Opportunities What are the Azure opportunities for Microsoft partners? Mike Werner provides a high level overview of Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing services. Topics covered include basic platform features and functionality, overall benefits, and the common scenarios for using Windows Azure. We will also discuss how the Azure Services Platform applies to the partner business by creating new services-based opportunities across the Microsoft partner and customer ecosystem. 3562 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/brianjo/Windows-Azure-and-Partner-Opportunities Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:56:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/brianjo/Windows-Azure-and-Partner-Opportunities Brian Johnson Brian Johnson 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/brianjo/Windows-Azure-and-Partner-Opportunities/RSS Azure Azure Platform Azure Services mpneast Partner Partners Doug Hauger: Inside the Windows Azure Platform Business Model really mean? Would we be able to finish the converstion in under 15 minutes (hard for me to do, as you know...Smiley)? Of course, the complexity of the Azure business model would determine the time it takes to explain it (and the thinking behind it). Well, as you can see by the length of the interview, apparently the Azure people constructed a pricing model that is greatly simplified compared to some of our other business pricing models from years past. The overall simplicity of the plan is impressive.

Tune in. Meet one of the key minds behind the Azure business model and learn about some of the reasoning used in constructing the official plan:

Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services will be commercially available at the Professional Developer Conference 2009 and we hope you will continue building on the Community Technology Preview (CTP) at no cost today.    

Upon commercial availability we will offer Windows Azure through a consumption-based pricing model, allowing partners and customers to pay only for the services that they consume.

Windows Azure:
Compute @  $0.12 / instance hour
Storage @ $0.15 / GB / month stored
Storage Transactions @ $0.01 / 10K
 
SQL Azure:
Web Edition – Up to 1 GB relational database @ $9.99 Business Edition – Up to 10 GB relational database @ $99.99 

.NET Services:
Messages @ $0.15/100K message operations, including Service Bus messages and Access Control tokens

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Doug-Hauger-Inside-the-Windows-Azure-Platform-Business-Model Meet Doug Hauger, Azure General Manager. Doug owns the business side of the Azure Platform equation. How was the pricing determined? Are there different plans for "garage innovators" versus large enterprise customers? What does it all really mean? Would we be able to finish the converstion in under 15 minutes (hard for me to do, as you know...)? Of course, the complexity of the Azure business model would determine the time it takes to explain it (and the thinking behind it). Well, as you can see by the length of the interview, apparently the Azure people constructed a pricing model that is greatly simplified compared to some of our other business pricing models from years past. The overall simplicity of the plan is impressive. Tune in. Meet one of the key minds behind the Azure business model and learn about some of the reasoning used in constructing the official plan:Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services will be commercially available at the Professional Developer Conference 2009 and we hope you will continue building on the Community Technology Preview (CTP) at no cost today.     Upon commercial availability we will offer Windows Azure through a consumption-based pricing model, allowing partners and customers to pay only for the services that they consume. Windows Azure:Compute @  $0.12 / instance hourStorage @ $0.15 / GB / month storedStorage Transactions @ $0.01 / 10K SQL Azure: Web Edition – Up to 1 GB relational database @ $9.99 Business Edition – Up to 10 GB relational database @ $99.99  .NET Services: Messages @ $0.15/100K message operations, including Service Bus messages and Access Control tokens 899 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Doug-Hauger-Inside-the-Windows-Azure-Platform-Business-Model Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:16:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Doug-Hauger-Inside-the-Windows-Azure-Platform-Business-Model Charles Charles 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Doug-Hauger-Inside-the-Windows-Azure-Platform-Business-Model/RSS Azure Services Windows Azure ARCast.TV - The Cloud Part 2, What is Microsoft doing ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-The-Cloud-What-is-Microsoft-doing On 30 – 31 March 2009, at Weston Manor, Oxford UK a group of senior IT architects from across the industry met to consider the coming ‘Cloud’. What it is, what it means for business and the software profession and what has Microsoft been up to in the cloud. This episode is part 2 in the series, what Microsoft is doing in the cloud computing space. 1005 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-The-Cloud-What-is-Microsoft-doing Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:57:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-The-Cloud-What-is-Microsoft-doing Bob Familiar Bob Familiar 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-The-Cloud-What-is-Microsoft-doing/RSS ARCast Azure Azure Platform Azure Services Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Services Windows Azure ARCast.TV - The Cloud Part 1, What it means to the user On 30 – 31 March 2009, at Weston Manor, Oxford UK a group of senior IT architects from across the industry met to consider the coming ‘Cloud’. What it is, what it means for business and the software profession and what has Microsoft been up to in the cloud?  This episode is part one of the discussion, what the cloud means to the user.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-The-Cloud-What-it-means-to-the-user On 30 – 31 March 2009, at Weston Manor, Oxford UK a group of senior IT architects from across the industry met to consider the coming ‘Cloud’. What it is, what it means for business and the software profession and what has Microsoft been up to in the cloud?  This episode is part one of the discussion, what the cloud means to the user. 805 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-The-Cloud-What-it-means-to-the-user Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:32:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-The-Cloud-What-it-means-to-the-user Bob Familiar Bob Familiar 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-The-Cloud-What-it-means-to-the-user/RSS ARCast Azure Azure Platform Azure Services Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Services Windows Azure ARCast.TV - Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell Windows Azure and Microsoft's cloud platform? David Chappell discusses his perspective on this fast-changing area with Bob Familiar. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-Windows-Azure-a-conversation-with-David-Chappell What's the latest on Windows Azure and Microsoft's cloud platform? David Chappell discusses his perspective on this fast-changing area with Bob Familiar. 848 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-Windows-Azure-a-conversation-with-David-Chappell Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:22:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-Windows-Azure-a-conversation-with-David-Chappell Bob Familiar Bob Familiar 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-Windows-Azure-a-conversation-with-David-Chappell/RSS ARCast Architects Architecture Architecture Software+Services Azure Azure Platform Azure Services Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Services Windows Azure What is Windows Azure? http://blog.smarx.com/posts/what-is-windows-azure-a-hand-drawn-video ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/smarx/What-is-Windows-Azure-a-hand-drawn-video This hand-drawn video answers the question "What is Windows Azure?"  For more information about the video, see my blog post: http://blog.smarx.com/posts/what-is-windows-azure-a-hand-drawn-video 255 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/smarx/What-is-Windows-Azure-a-hand-drawn-video Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:39:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/smarx/What-is-Windows-Azure-a-hand-drawn-video Steve Marx Steve Marx 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/smarx/What-is-Windows-Azure-a-hand-drawn-video/RSS Azure Services Windows Azure Dynamics Duo: Everybody needs an Identity In yesterday’s episode we very briefly touched the identity and authentication part of the demo where, on the self-service site, the attendee registers using Windows Live ID.   In this episode we go a lot deeper.

Identity and authentication is hard.  Simple, scalable and secure login capabilities require a great deal of experience to build and a great deal of effort to maintain and keep running.  Windows Live ID provides you a proven solution for building identity-aware applications and is used today by over 460 million users.

In our case, since we’ve integrated Live ID into the system, we let Microsoft manage all the details related to identity and authentication.  Live ID assigns each of our users a token that is specific to our site.  That means Microsoft lets us know that the person coming to the site is the same person that registered.  That token is unique to our site so that from the perspective of the user their privacy is protected (e.g. they cannot be tracked across multiple web sites).  In fact, the token is the only thing the site will see.  So even though the user may use an email address and password to login to Live ID the site never sees that unless the user explicitly provides that information (as in our example by typing it into a profile page).

The simplicity of this is just amazing.  As a developer I just have to register my site with Windows Live ID and then redirect my users to the Live ID login page whenever I need them to be authenticated.  Live ID handles the authentication and then redirects back to a page that I’ve registered.  You can even brand the Windows Live ID login page that your users will see so that it will appear as if it is your own login page.  Nice!

While Windows Live ID does a great job of helping me as a conference organizer to identify and authenticate my conference attendees, we also need to authenticate the Windows Azure site to the Dynamics CRM site so that they can exchange information.  We’re obviously not going to have CRM licenses for all our self-service users (the thousands of conference attendees in this case) so we use a certificate on the Windows Azure site to ensure that only that site has access to the CRM data.  Once the certificate is on my Azure site, we use a Live ID service account to handle the authentication between the two servers.

This episode is part of a 5-part series. In this series we’ve tried to explain how you can combine the Microsoft Web Platform with Dynamics CRM to quickly build and deploy self-service solutions. The full set of videos include:

  1. Dynamics Duo Rides Again
  2. Dynamics Duo: Everybody needs an Identity (this video)
  3. Dynamics Duo: Wide World Importers Code
  4. Dynamics Duo: Composition with Third-Party Web Services
  5. Dynamics Duo: Silverlight and Jazz Hands 

Both Girish and I enjoyed recording this series. We hope you enjoyed them as well. If you have comments or suggestions for other topics, feel free to add comments below or email Girish or me (Ben) directly.

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benriga/Dynamics-Duo-Everybody-needs-an-Identity In yesterday’s episode we very briefly touched the identity and authentication part of the demo where, on the self-service site, the attendee registers using Windows Live ID.   In this episode we go a lot deeper. Identity and authentication is hard.  Simple, scalable and secure login capabilities require a great deal of experience to build and a great deal of effort to maintain and keep running.  Windows Live ID provides you a proven solution for building identity-aware applications and is used today by over 460 million users. In our case, since we’ve integrated Live ID into the system, we let Microsoft manage all the details related to identity and authentication.  Live ID assigns each of our users a token that is specific to our site.  That means Microsoft lets us know that the person coming to the site is the same person that registered.  That token is unique to our site so that from the perspective of the user their privacy is protected (e.g. they cannot be tracked across multiple web sites).  In fact, the token is the only thing the site will see.  So even though the user may use an email address and password to login to Live ID the site never sees that unless the user explicitly provides that information (as in our example by typing it into a profile page). The simplicity of this is just amazing.  As a developer I just have to register my site with Windows Live ID and then redirect my users to the Live ID login page whenever I need them to be authenticated.  Live ID handles the authentication and then redirects back to a page that I’ve registered.  You can even brand the Windows Live ID login page that your users will see so that it will appear as if it is your own login page.  Nice! While Windows Live ID does a great job of helping me as a conference organizer to identify and authenticate my conference attendees, we also need to authenticate the Windows Azure site to th 850 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benriga/Dynamics-Duo-Everybody-needs-an-Identity Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benriga/Dynamics-Duo-Everybody-needs-an-Identity Ben Riga Ben Riga 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benriga/Dynamics-Duo-Everybody-needs-an-Identity/RSS Authentication Azure Services Dynamics CRM Identity Access Windows Azure Windows Live ID A look at Cloud Computing, Azure and Dynamics CRM Microsoft Dynamics CRM talks to us about Cloud Computing, Azure, Dynamics CRM and what it really means for anyone working with Microsoft Dynamics products


John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
http://blogs.msdn.com/jodonnell
http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde
http://www.twitter.com/jodonnel ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jodonnell/A-look-at-Cloud-Computing-Azure-and-Dynamics-CRM In this video Jon White, a CRM Technology Specialist with Microsoft Dynamics CRM talks to us about Cloud Computing, Azure, Dynamics CRM and what it really means for anyone working with Microsoft Dynamics products John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/jodonnell http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde http://www.twitter.com/jodonnel 1083 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jodonnell/A-look-at-Cloud-Computing-Azure-and-Dynamics-CRM Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:50:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jodonnell/A-look-at-Cloud-Computing-Azure-and-Dynamics-CRM John O'Donnell John O'Donnell 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jodonnell/A-look-at-Cloud-Computing-Azure-and-Dynamics-CRM/RSS Azure Azure Platform Azure Services Cloud Cloud Computing Cloud Services Dynamics Dynamics CRM Dynamics CRM Online Dynamics CRM Platform Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Dynamics CRM Dynamics CRM 4.0 Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2nd CRM Incubation Week Videos: HIPAAMatic During 2nd CRM Incubation Week in Boston, MA, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments (BizSpark, XRM, Azure) to make them succeed in today’s economy.

In this series, I am pleased to introduce HIPAAMatic, the "Most Innovative Award" winner.

Enjoy the VIDEO starring Shawn Ramirtha, Dhruv Chopra, Vishwa Kapoor, CRM MVP Aaron Elder, and Larry Gregory.

The solution demo starts at time 13:10.

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/2nd-CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-HIPAAMatic During 2nd CRM Incubation Week in Boston, MA, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments (BizSpark, XRM, Azure) to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce HIPAAMatic, the "Most Innovative Award" winner. Enjoy the VIDEO starring Shawn Ramirtha, Dhruv Chopra, Vishwa Kapoor, CRM MVP Aaron Elder, and Larry Gregory. The solution demo starts at time 13:10. Sanjay Jain ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369 973 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/2nd-CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-HIPAAMatic Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:42:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/2nd-CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-HIPAAMatic Sanjay Jain Sanjay Jain 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/2nd-CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-HIPAAMatic/RSS Azure Azure Platform Azure Services BizSpark Dynamics Dynamics CRM Platform Healthcare Incubation Week ISV Life Science Microsoft Microsoft Dynamics partner hosted S+S Sanjay Jain Startups xRM 2nd CRM Incubation Week Videos: SmartRedPen During 2nd CRM Incubation Week in Boston, MA, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments (BizSpark, XRM, Azure) to make them succeed in today’s economy.

In this series, I am pleased to introduce SmartRedPen.

Enjoy the VIDEO starring Jennifer A. Caulfield, Bolivar M. Vivanco, and Larry Gregory.

The solution demo starts at time 1:23.

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/2nd-CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-SmartRedPen During 2nd CRM Incubation Week in Boston, MA, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments (BizSpark, XRM, Azure) to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce SmartRedPen. Enjoy the VIDEO starring Jennifer A. Caulfield, Bolivar M. Vivanco, and Larry Gregory. The solution demo starts at time 1:23.Sanjay Jain ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369 230 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/2nd-CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-SmartRedPen Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:18:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/2nd-CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-SmartRedPen Sanjay Jain Sanjay Jain 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/2nd-CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-SmartRedPen/RSS Azure Azure Platform Azure Services BizSpark Dynamics Dynamics CRM Platform Education Incubation Week ISV Microsoft Microsoft Dynamics partner hosted Public Sector S+S Sanjay Jain Startups xRM Expert to Expert: Amitabh Srivastava - Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform at PDC08. Remember that? Yeah. It's been a while since we first unveiled our cloud computing offering. Now that the hysteria has died down, we thought it wise to go learn the details behind and inside Azure. Who better for this next iteration of Expert of Expert than Windows Azure VP Amitabh Srivastava? Exactly.

Amitabh is a computer scientist turned VP. Lucky for us, he chose the Azure project (formerly known as Red Dog) to put his IQ to work. He built a great team including the venerable and mysterious genius David Cutler (what did David build for Azure, anyway? Tune in...). Much brain power followed the trail to Azure clad in red sneakers with distributed visions of cloud computing in their heads. What would they make? How will it evolve?  

What is Azure, exactly? Why are we (Microsoft) doing this? What does cloud computing really mean, anyway? Why "Red Dog" for the code name? Is this just hosting? How is Azure different than what, say, Amazon has already been doing for a few years? What's the score here? What's next?

Erik Meijer leads the questioning and Amitabh does a great job explaining things in a readily understandable way. Great stuff!

Enjoy ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Amitabh-Srivastava-Windows-Azure-and-Cloud-Computing You first learned about Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform at PDC08. Remember that? Yeah. It's been a while since we first unveiled our cloud computing offering. Now that the hysteria has died down, we thought it wise to go learn the details behind and inside Azure. Who better for this next iteration of Expert of Expert than Windows Azure VP Amitabh Srivastava? Exactly. Amitabh is a computer scientist turned VP. Lucky for us, he chose the Azure project (formerly known as Red Dog) to put his IQ to work. He built a great team including the venerable and mysterious genius David Cutler (what did David build for Azure, anyway? Tune in...). Much brain power followed the trail to Azure clad in red sneakers with distributed visions of cloud computing in their heads. What would they make? How will it evolve?  What is Azure, exactly? Why are we (Microsoft) doing this? What does cloud computing really mean, anyway? Why "Red Dog" for the code name? Is this just hosting? How is Azure different than what, say, Amazon has already been doing for a few years? What's the score here? What's next? Erik Meijer leads the questioning and Amitabh does a great job explaining things in a readily understandable way. Great stuff!Enjoy 3647 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Amitabh-Srivastava-Windows-Azure-and-Cloud-Computing Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:51:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Amitabh-Srivastava-Windows-Azure-and-Cloud-Computing Charles Charles 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Amitabh-Srivastava-Windows-Azure-and-Cloud-Computing/RSS Amitabh Srivastava Azure Azure Platform Azure Services Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Erik Meijer Expert to Expert Microsoft Exeutives Windows Azure This Week on C9: Charles Torre on camera, C9 turns 5, and lots of freebies This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by special guest Charles Torre! This week we discuss

- Channel 9 turns 5 Years old and Jamie builds some 5-year anniversary wallpapers

- Nic Fillingham’s Flickr photos from the 5-year anniversary cake

- Where Dan, Brian and Charles were five years ago

Developer News
- Download SQL Server 2008 SP1

- Velocity Team - Velocity CTP3 now available(Download)

- Jesse Liberty – VideoWiki Open Silverlight 3 Project

- Jeroen Ritmeijer - Integrating TextGlow (Silverlight Open XML viewer) into Sharepoint

-  Yochay Kiriaty – Walkthrough of the Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library
- Update to free Azure Services Training Kit and Azure Services Management Tools

- Mohammad Khosravi – CodeProject Range Finder app, via Greg Duncan

- Jon Galloway - Troubleshooting an intermittent .NET High CPU problem

- Bill Ramos - SQL Management Studio Tips Part 1 and Part 2

- Adam Kinney – Video demo of Silverlight Spy to Visually Debug Silverlight applications

- SourceGear - DiffMerge available (free)

- RedGate offers Illustrated C# 2008 eBook for free, via Stefano Mapelli

Picks of the week
- Charles's pick of the week: Jonathan Shapiro, creator of EROS and BitC projects, was hired by Microsoft
- Brian’s pick of the week: Correction on features coming in XNA from Michael Klucher

-Dan’s pick of the week: Silverlight-based Future Desktop in Silverlight (blog post, Codeplex project), via Rishi Oberi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-Charles-Torre-on-camera-C9-turns-5-and-lots-of-freebies This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by special guest Charles Torre! This week we discuss - Channel 9 turns 5 Years old and Jamie builds some 5-year anniversary wallpapers - Nic Fillingham’s Flickr photos from the 5-year anniversary cake - Where Dan, Brian and Charles were five years ago Developer News - Download SQL Server 2008 SP1 - Velocity Team - Velocity CTP3 now available(Download) - Jesse Liberty – VideoWiki Open Silverlight 3 Project - Jeroen Ritmeijer - Integrating TextGlow (Silverlight Open XML viewer) into Sharepoint -  Yochay Kiriaty – Walkthrough of the Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library - Update to free Azure Services Training Kit and Azure Services Management Tools - Mohammad Khosravi – CodeProject Range Finder app, via Greg Duncan - Jon Galloway - Troubleshooting an intermittent .NET High CPU problem - Bill Ramos - SQL Management Studio Tips Part 1 and Part 2 - Adam Kinney – Video demo of Silverlight Spy to Visually Debug Silverlight applications - SourceGear - DiffMerge available (free) - RedGate offers Illustrated C# 2008 eBook for free, via Stefano Mapelli Picks of the week - Charles's pick of the week: Jonathan Shapiro, creator of EROS and BitC projects, was hired by Microsoft - Brian’s pick of the week: Correction on features coming in XNA from Michael Klucher -Dan’s pick of the week: Silverlight-based Future Desktop in Silverlight (blog post, Codeplex project), via Rishi Oberi 1792 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-Charles-Torre-on-camera-C9-turns-5-and-lots-of-freebies Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:31:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-Charles-Torre-on-camera-C9-turns-5-and-lots-of-freebies Dan Fernandez Dan Fernandez 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-Charles-Torre-on-camera-C9-turns-5-and-lots-of-freebies/RSS Azure Services free Silverlight SQL Server 2008 Windows 7 ReachLive - The Future of Communications
Follow this link to get started with Azure: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/sdk.mspx

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/ReachLive-The-Future-of-Communications IntelePeer, a Microsoft partner, has developed the ReachLive application that voice enables web applications.  ReachLive combines IntelePeer's AppworX programmatic telecommunications platform with Microsoft's Live Services to provide communications features.  The video describes the application, the archtiecture , the power of communications as a service (CaaS), and a demo. Follow this link to get started with Azure: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/sdk.mspx 1151 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/ReachLive-The-Future-of-Communications Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:02:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/ReachLive-The-Future-of-Communications SkiExtreme SkiExtreme 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/ReachLive-The-Future-of-Communications/RSS Architecture Azure Azure Platform Azure Services CaaS Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Services Communications as a Service Software + Services Windows Azure Windows Live Windows Live ID Windows Live Messenger Infosys: Data Integration in the Cloud Infosys Technologies Limited has created a data integration hub which is built on top of Azure platform.  Principal Architect of Infosys, Jitendra Pal Thethi, demonstrates how the hosting platform of Windows Azure can provide a solution for closer collaboration with your company’s customers and partners.

Infosys has a global footprint with over 50 offices and development centers in India, China, Australia, the Czech Republic, Poland, the UK, Canada and Japan. With over 103,000 employees. Infosys' service offerings span business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, independent testing and validation services, IT infrastructure services and business process outsourcing.

 

Check out the Microsoft ISV site for more information about ISVs working with Microsoft.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Inside+Out/Infosys-Data-Integration-in-the-Cloud Infosys Technologies Limited has created a data integration hub which is built on top of Azure platform.  Principal Architect of Infosys, Jitendra Pal Thethi, demonstrates how the hosting platform of Windows Azure can provide a solution for closer collaboration with your company’s customers and partners. Infosys has a global footprint with over 50 offices and development centers in India, China, Australia, the Czech Republic, Poland, the UK, Canada and Japan. With over 103,000 employees. Infosys' service offerings span business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, independent testing and validation services, IT infrastructure services and business process outsourcing.   Check out the Microsoft ISV site for more information about ISVs working with Microsoft. 1956 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Inside+Out/Infosys-Data-Integration-in-the-Cloud Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:42:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Inside+Out/Infosys-Data-Integration-in-the-Cloud Charles Charles 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Inside+Out/Infosys-Data-Integration-in-the-Cloud/RSS Azure Azure Platform Azure Services Data Services Partner Web Services Windows Azure