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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

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. For more information and to download the code, see my blog:  http://blog.smarx.com.

Developing a Windows Azure service using Visual Studio.

Using Windows Azure table storage.

Using Windows Azure blob storage.

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

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.

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…