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I’d like to share the article that I recently wrote with my friend and colleague Bruno Terkaly for the MSDN Magazine Windows 8 special edition. We show how easy it is to write and host a REST enabled Service in Windows Azure, supporting Windows 8 applications making asynchronous calls to retrieve data. It can be [...]

I have updated the links on my blog to reflect that the October 2012 release of the Windows Azure Training Kit is available now. A new page has been added to the main Windows Azure website, where you can find more information on how to use it. Among the changes and new features that you [...]

You will notice that I just updated the link to the latest version of the Windows Azure Training Kit on my blog’s widgets (right-hand side column). This new version introduces a new agenda for Windows Azure DevCamps which contains 7 new presentations: • DevCamps Keynote • DevCamps Websites • DevCamps Cloud Services • DevCamps Virtual Machines [...]

The Windows Azure Training Kit for the June 2012 release is now available. This is – hands down – the best official resource when it comes to code samples, labs and presentations for the new Windows Azure features recently announced. I’m planning to start doing some of the labs during the following days, including one [...]

The Fabrikam Shipping website has been updated to version 1.3 of the Windows Azure SDK. This sample project shows how to create different subscription models using a SaaS approach and different Azure components. Source code is available. Enjoy! Click here to open link…

If you downloaded version 1.3 of the Azure SDK, make sure to update your training kit as well. Click here to open link…

The amount of information regarding the Windows Azure Platform is amazing… but sometimes it could be hard to find exactly what you are looking for. Fear no more! J.D. Meier has posted a blog entry with a link to the "Windows Azure Developer Guidance Map". The document is already a candidate to become my #1 [...]

• Updated all hands-on labs and demo scripts for Visual Studio 2010, the .NET Framework 4, and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio version 1.2 release. • Added a new hands-on lab titled "Introduction to the AppFabric Access Control Service (September 2010 Labs Release)". • Added a new hands-on lab "Debugging Applications in Windows [...]

Good example on how to capture web pages to an image using an Azure application, incuding how to use local storage, as well as combining the responsibilities of a web and a worker role in a single one. http://blog.smarx.com/posts/web-page-image-capture-in-windows-azure