The Microsoft Developer & Platform is pleased to announce a free two day “Accelerated Training Workshop” covering the Windows Azure Services Platform, for Microsoft Partners. Delivered through workshop style presentations and hands-on lab exercises, the workshop will focus on the three key services of the Windows Azure Platform – Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services.

The topics covered over the two days will be:

- An introduction to Windows Azure

- Working with Windows Azure storage

- An introduction to SQL Azure

- Building applications with SQL Azure

- An introduction to .NET Services

- Building solutions using the .NET Service Bus

This workshop is aimed at developers, architects and systems designers with at least 6 months practical experience using Visual Studio 2008 and C#.

The workshop will be run 19^th & 20^th October (Monday & Tuesday) and again on 21^st & 22^nd October (Wednesday and Thursday), and is targeted at partners who have projects that they are potentially looking to move to Azure. Places are limited to one person per company, and you will get an email acknowledging your request, and spaces will be allocated closer to the event.

To apply for one of the limited places on this workshop, please email ukdev@microsoft.com with the following information:

- The workshop date(s) you are interested in

- Attendee details (Name, job position, company)

- Any prototypes, projects or feature areas that are relevant

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