Today marks the last day of the first month of billing for Azure… and, hopefully, everyone has been following best practices and has been actively monitoring their account and usage. Consumption charges are new to a lot of us… and no one likes surprises...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . In this screencast, I show you how to run a SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 report in Windows Azure using the ReportViewer control that ships with Visual Studio 2010.  As an added bonus, I demonstrate using...

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CitySourced has selected Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform as the foundation for their application infrastructure.. We will do a detailed blog-post over the next month or two, but below is a short one about FreedomSpeaks/CitySourced, goals to address...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/webapptoolkits/ “These FREE Web App Toolkits help you complete common web development tasks and quickly add new features to your apps. Whether it’s Bing Maps integration or...

Many customers in the process of rolling out SharePoint across the organization have recurring questions about the best sources for training and tools.  Below is a compiled list of some of the available resources (kudos to Gabor & his credits...

The City of Miami recently implemented a terrific 311 tracking application: http://miami311.cloudapp.net . This was built by a great partner of ours ISC , makers of http://www.mapdotnet.com . I thought I'd include a high level architecture diagram so...

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Based on popular demand, here are the videos of the different scenarios and concepts in lab management, to help you get started quickly. The videos are based on Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC. The first video is an overview and the subsequent 5...

SoftSol USA develops custom IT applications and software products that take full advantage of the latest web technologies and service oriented architecture (SOA), and help customers modernize their legacy applications. They leverage some of their own...

There’s been a ton of blog postings on how to get this whole ‘SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows 7’ scenario working…most of which will eventually get you up & running, but I thought I’d provide a short & sweet, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Release...

A common need for Windows 7 touch user interfaces is to react to a touch gesture.  In this screencast, I demonstrate a very simple and easy way to interpret single touch gestures using MouseGestureTrigger from the Expression Blend Samples . To learn...

UPDATE: You can follow tanagram on twitter @tanagram http://twitter.com/tanagram . NOTE: This was cross posted from here . One of the things I have been trying to do this year is encourage / kick start partners to create useful CodePlex projects...

Let your voice be heard and spread the word!  The submissions are in and public voting is now open for the Windows Azure Application Development Contest targeted towards State and Local Government agencies.  Click here to vote for the best application...

As mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to test the waters by writing a small app that allowed someone to enter a zip code, find all of their Congressional representatives , then find out the committees they're on, bills they've sponsored, how they...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . ASP.NET Ajax has a great feature that helps make it easy to enable back/forward button and bookmarking support in your Ajax applications.  However, most people think you need ASP.NET WebForms and the ScriptManager...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . If you have a need to consume REST Services from .NET Framework based code, then you should really have look at the WCF Rest Starter Kit .  There is a handy class called HttpClient that is, in my opinion, provides...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . Submit and vote at: Windows Azure Feature Voting Forum http://www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.com/forums/34192-windows-azure-feature-voting SQL Azure Feature Voting Forum http://www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.com/forums...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . I’ve been covering ASP.NET AJAX and what used to be called the “Microsoft Ajax Library” ever since the first “Atlas” code drops.  ASP.NET AJAX has always offered Web Forms developers a relatively simple way...

We're coming to the end of our State & Local Government Azure solution contest - with prized of $2.5k, $5k, and $10k for third, second, and first place, respectively. Note: THE LAST DAY YOU CAN SUBMIT A SOLUTION IS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5th... and...