In this post, you will test the GuestBook application in the Development Fabric (aka, devfabric ). The devfabric is a simulated environment for developing and testing Windows Azure applications on your test machine. A Visual Studio project with source...

You can update your service's configuration while the service is running without taking the service offline. The service configuration (.cscfg) file contains the service's configuration. To change configuration information, you can either upload a new...

In this post you will create a worker role to read work items posted to a queue by the web role front-end. The worker role performs these tasks: Extract the information about the guest book entry from the message queued by the web role in the Queue Storage...

In this post, you will create the UI that enables the user to perform read, write operations on the GuestBookEntry table. You will update the web role project generated when you created the Windows Azure service. Specifically, you will perform the following...

This post shows how to create a project that contains the classes to store guest entries in Windows Azure Table Storage . The Table Storage service offers semi-structured storage in the form of tables that contain collections of entities. Entities have...

In this post, you will create a Windows Azure service project using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 . To create the Windows Azure service project From the start menu, select All Programs and right-click Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 . Choose Run as Administrator...

This is the first of several posts of a walkthrough whose goal is to build a cloud guest book service while exploring Windows Azure basic elements . I wrote these posts to share my experience in learning Microsoft implementation of cloud computing. If...

The Windows Azure development is a simulation environment which enables you to run and debug your applications (services) before deploying them. The development environment provides the following utilities: The development fabric utility. The development...

Silverlight is a .NET Framework development platform for creating rich interactive applications (RIA) for web, desktop, and mobile platforms when online or offline. Silverlight also provides a free plug-in compatible with multiple browsers, devices and...

Cloud Computing Windows Azure Platform is Microsoft implementation of cloud computing. The National Institute of Standards and Technology defines cloud computing as follows: Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient on-demand network access to...

  This blog describes how to access data from a database and how to display and update it using ASP.NET Web pages. The final document can be found at this public location: Working With Data . For more information and support related to this post...

Introduction This post is a preview of the upcoming documentation which describes a new approach for accessing data from an ASP.NET client (Web page) by using the WCF RIA Services domain service . The complete documentation will be available on MSDN....

This post is a preview of the up-coming documentation on MSDN. The links in this post will point to the new topics when available. Please, send us your feedback. ASP.NET Dynamic Data lets you create extensible data-driven Web applications by inferring...

Introduction This walkthrough shows how to use a simple Bing search as a Web service in an ASP.NET Web application. The Bing search features are invoked by the ASP.NET Web application using SOAP protocol over HTTP. You can also use XML and JSON...

[Note:  This document is a preliminary version of a walkthrough that will be released with the Beta 2 version of Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.] Introduction This walkthrough shows how to filter rows in tables with a parent-child relationship...

Introduction This walkthrough shows how to use the BING features as a Web service in a client console application. This service, that we'll call BING Service, is invoked by the client console application using SOAP protocol over HTTP. You can also use...

Introduction This walkthrough shows how to use the Dynamic Data filter templates to create the UI that enables you to choose a column value for selecting (filtering) table rows to display. By default, Dynamic Data includes templates that let you specify...

Introduction ASP.NET Dynamic Data enables you to use page markup to filter the table rows to display and provides the UI that enables the user to enter the values needed for custom row filtering. Dynamic Data will infer the filter template for creating...

Summary: This post shows a console application that uses the ConfigurationManager class. The code example extends what is already in the current documentation to demonstrate the use of this class. The example has been built using Microsoft Visual Studio...

Summary : Query a child table using a column from a parent table. A simpler example of this would be if the column belongs to the same table. This topic uses two tables related by a parent-child relationship. The parent table contains the data key that...

Please refer to Customize Table Rows Filtering in Dynamic Data .

Summary : This post shows how to query a child table using a column from a parent table in dynamic data filtering. It shows how to use the ForeignKey filter template to query the products using the Category data field. The ForeignKey filter template is...

Introduction What : Create your own project, called DynamicDataProject, that mimics the SampleProject shipped with ASP.NET Dynamic Data 4.0 Preview available on CodePlex . Why : The objective is to analyze the new Dynamic Data features and build gradually...

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