My colleagues on the Microsoft Startup Evangelism team are throwing a Windows Azure App Challenge in both NYC and Philly during the month of May. I’ll be doing the “NJ Turnpike shuffle” to help out in both cities. Join us over 3 weeks...

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced a number of new features for Windows Azure including a revamped subscription process making it easier than ever to try out the platform. In pointing out the risk-free nature of the offers in a previous post ...

Back in March, the SQL Data Services team announced the revamping of the ‘database in the cloud’ offering to include a fully-relational capability versus the Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) model that was unveiled as part of the Azure Services Platform at...

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few months working with and talking about Windows Azure to a variety of audiences, but if you’re anything like me, it can be hard to truly ‘get it’ until you touch it.  So to bring it all home (pun intended...

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on enhancing a Windows Azure example application from our recent TechJam event series . I’m planning to post that code soon (and dedicate a few blogs posts to it), but there was one aspect of the application...

This is the sixth and final post of a walkthrough to set up a mixed-mode platform- and infrastructure-as-a-service application on Windows Azure using Couchbase and ASP.NET. For more context on the application, please review this introductory post . To...

The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2010 is happening next week out in Redmond, Wa.  This is the first time the event has been held on the Microsoft campus.  If you’ve ever been to a PDC before, then you know it is where Microsoft...

This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure project, which formed the basis of a webcast series by Developer Evangelists Brian Hitney and Jim O’Neil.  Be sure to read the introductory post for the...

This post is part of a series diving into the implementation of the @home With Windows Azure project, which formed the basis of a webcast series by Developer Evangelists Brian Hitney and Jim O’Neil.  Be sure to read the introductory post for the...

This post is part of a series called “ Windows Azure for the ASP.NET Developer ” written by Rachel Appel , Adam Hoffman , and Peter Laudati . You can see the complete list of posts in the series at the US DPE Azure Connection site. In...