What is Windows Azure?

Posted By: smarx | Jun 19th @ 11:39 PM | Comments: 1

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

Tags: Azure Services, Windows Azure

The CIA Pickup - a Windows Azure Sample

Posted By: smarx | Jun 12th @ 4:50 PM | Comments: 3

The CIA Pickup - a Windows Azure&nbsp;Sample

The CIA Pickup is my latest and greatest sample, running on Windows Azure and making use of Twilio, Live ID, and Live Mail. This screencast explains the sample and walks through a brief architectural overview.[more

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Tags: ASP.NET MVC, Azure, Windows Azure

Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio

Posted By: smarx | Nov 3rd, 2008 @ 11:05 PM | Comments: 3

Windows Azure Tools for Visual&nbsp;Studio

Developing a Windows Azure service using Visual Studio.[more

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Tags: Cloud Services, Visual Studio, Windows Azure

Windows Azure Table Storage

Posted By: smarx | Nov 3rd, 2008 @ 11:01 PM | Comments: 3

Using Windows Azure table storage.[more

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Tags: Cloud Services, Storage, Tables, Windows Azure

Windows Azure Blob Storage

Posted By: smarx | Nov 3rd, 2008 @ 11:00 PM | Comments: 5

Using Windows Azure blob storage.[more

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Tags: Blobs, Cloud Services, Storage, Windows Azure

Windows Azure: Hello, Cloud!

Posted By: smarx | Nov 3rd, 2008 @ 5:59 PM | Comments: 23

Building a simple web application and deploying it to Windows Azure.

Tags: Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Windows Azure

MIX'07 video player sample - with all the new stuff

Posted By: smarx | Aug 1st, 2007 @ 9:10 AM | Comments: 0

MIX&#39;07 video player sample - with all the new&nbsp;stuff

I built my own MIX'07 video player last night and recorded a 15 minute screencast to give you an idea of what's possible with all the new releases that came out last week.

See the blog post at http://smarx.com/posts/my-own-mix07-video-player-using-all-the-new-stuff.aspx.[more

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Tags: Ajax, ASP.NET, Express, LINQ, MIX07, Orcas, Silverlight, Video, Visual Studio, Web Services

smarxwear: ASP.NET AJAX T-shirt demo

Posted By: smarx | Feb 28th, 2007 @ 5:31 PM | Comments: 2

smarxwear: ASP.NET AJAX T-shirt&nbsp;demo

See how to take an existing ASP.NET application (a T-shirt store) and add AJAX functionality. The T-shirts themselves have painfully bad puns on them (the kind I love), all written by yours truly.

See http://smarx.com/posts/bad-ajax-jokes-good-ajax-sample.aspx for the running sample and to download the source.[more

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Tags: Ajax, ASP.NET, Atlas, CSharp, Visual Studio, Web Services

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