Colleague Clint Edmunson has put together set of templates for you to begin your architectural discussions around Windows Azure . With new offerings coming every six months from the Windows Azure team, the templates provide a set of technologies that fit common scenarios. Clint writes, “In this...

Abstract This article is about scalability and interoperability, two characteristics that are required in architectures to support the diversity of today’s popular mobile platforms, which potentially have millions of users. Figure 1 depicts this diversity, a common—yet challenging—scenario...

Performance: V7 is less than 1/3 the size of our v6.3 control. This helps V7 load faster than the previous control. V7 renders multiple points on a map up to 3 times faster than v6.3. This helps deliver more and faster information to users. T Performance is based on internal tests of compressed controls...