Elevate your skills with Windows Azure in this hands-on workshop! In this event we’ll guide you through the process of building and deploying a large scale Azure application. Forget about “hello world”! In less than two hours we’ll build and deploy a real cloud app that leverages the Azure data center and helps make a difference in the world. Yes, in addition to building an application that will leave you with a rock-solid understanding of the Azure platform, the solution you deploy will contribute back to Stanford’s Folding@home distributed computing project. There’s no cost to you to participate in this session; each attendee will receive a temporary, self-expiring, full-access account to work with Azure for a period of 2-weeks.
For this briefing you will:
Who should attend?
Open to developers with an interest in exploring Windows Azure through a short, hands-on workshop
AGENDA
15 min
WELCOME and STUDENT PREP
The goal of today’s event is to help attendees build a local instance of a Windows Azure application and deploy it to an Azure data center. So, are you ready to participate in this hands-on workshop? Did you review the pre-requisites*? We hope so, but just in case you didn’t, we’ll take a few minutes to review them with you now so you’re ready to begin building your app.
AZURE 101
To make sure everyone starts off with a common understanding of Microsoft’s cloud computing platform we’ll cover basic concepts for all attendees new to Azure. We’ll then provide an overview of the project, what “folding” is, and how the application is modeled.
75 min
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
We’ll guide you through creating a Windows Azure cloud application in Visual Studio, leveraging both web roles (as a front end for your application) and worker roles (that will carry out the core processing). Your application will make use of Azure Table Storage as well as Azure local storage for reading/writing files. Finally, we’ll show you how to deploy your application to the cloud (using accounts provided by Microsoft) and illustrate how to use Windows Azure Diagnostics to monitor the health of the application.
NEXT STEPS and WRAP-UP
You’ve got two weeks of no-cost access to Windows Azure before your account expires. Where do you turn next? How can you learn more? In this segment we’ll review a host of online training resources available to you today. And, we’ll explain Microsoft’s Azure offerings for MSDN subscribers, partners, and customers. For instance, did you know an MSDN Premium subscriber receives 6000 hours of Azure compute time at no additional cost? We’ll cover this and more to make sure you leave with the knowledge necessary to take Azure to the next level.
*PREREQUISITES
The prerequisites are pretty straight forward and we ask that you come prepared to participate in this event by installing the required software in advance of the Live Meeting event.
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Wednesday
April 28
11:00 AM – 01:00 PM
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May 04
07:00 PM – 09:00 PM
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May 12
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May 19
04:00 PM – 06:00 PM
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Presenters:
Brian Hitney, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
Jim O’Neil, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
John McClelland, Partner Evangelist, Microsoft