Today (3/31/2011) the Windows Azure platform AppFabric has updated the IP Ranges on which the AppFabric nodes are hosted. If your firewall restricts outbound traffic, you will need to perform the additional step of opening your outbound TCP Ports and...

Due to upgrades and enhancements we are making to Windows Azure AppFabric, the AppFabric Portal, located at http://appfabric.azure.com , will be locked for updates for a few hours. During that time you will not be able to create, update or delete any...

Do you remember how to play the childhood game, Rock, Paper, Scissors? Are you a Windows Azure developer? If so, then be sure to take the Rock, Paper, Azure Challenge for your chance at prizes and bragging rights. In this online game, based on Rock...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] It's important to understand that connecting to SQL Azure using ADO.net, is very similar to how the connection was made using SQL Server. MSDN has written a tutorial on how to do so. The article provides...

It's important to understand that connecting to SQL Azure using ADO.net, is very similar to how the connection was made using SQL Server. MSDN has written a tutorial on how to do so. The article provides a quick walkthrough and offers some considerations...

Today’s content announcement is a little different that our previous monthly Content Updates. As we continue to work on making the best data offers available to you through DataMarket, we are in the process of shortening the time between our content releases...

Jonathan Boutelle is cofounder and CTO of Slideshare, a site for the online social sharing of slideshows. A software engineer by training, his interests lie at the intersection of technology, business, and customer experience. He studied computer science...

In the previous posts in this series we covered the challenges that Windows Azure AppFabric is trying to solve , and started discussing the Middleware Services in the post regarding Service Bus and Access Control , the post regarding Caching , and the...

Cihan Biyikoglu has written an interesting article about NoSQL qualities extending into SQL Azure. "It is great to see people catching onto the idea of federations. Recently, there has been a number of great articles and a new whitepaper that refer...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Cihan Biyikoglu has written an interesting article about NoSQL qualities extending into SQL Azure. "It is great to see people catching onto the idea of federations. Recently, there has been a number...

The MSDN library content about how to use the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) has been revised, reorganized, and expanded to cover the new features available in the Windows Azure Platform Management Portal. In Delivering High-Bandwidth...

To help aid the disaster recovery efforts in Japan, two new portals built on the Windows Azure platform have just been released. These portals are both designed to provide relief workers and the worldwide community with real-time access to the latest...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] SQL Azure database is a great way to extend data to smartphones, tablets, and devices. You can already do this with Windows Phone 7. Scott Klien, co-founder of Azure training and consulting firm Blue...

SQL Azure database is a great way to extend data to smartphones, tablets, and devices. You can already do this with Windows Phone 7. Scott Klien, co-founder of Azure training and consulting firm Blue Syntax Consulting, has written a basic walkthrough...

San Diego, California, based energy management software pioneer, Advanced Telemetry , wanted to embrace cloud computing so as to pass more efficient infrastructure cost savings on to its customers and improve its own bottom line. The company runs...

Do you remember how to play the childhood game, Rock, Paper, Scissors? Are you a Windows Azure developer? If so, then be sure to take the Rock, Paper, Azure Challenge for your chance at prizes and bragging rights. In this online game, based on Rock...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] It's important to understand that connecting to SQL Azure using ADO.net, is very similar to how the connection was made using SQL Server. MSDN has written a tutorial on how to do so. The article provides...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Cihan Biyikoglu has written an interesting article about NoSQL qualities extending into SQL Azure. "It is great to see people catching onto the idea of federations. Recently, there has been a number...

The MSDN library content about how to use the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) has been revised, reorganized, and expanded to cover the new features available in the Windows Azure Platform Management Portal. In Delivering High-Bandwidth...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] SQL Azure database is a great way to extend data to smartphones, tablets, and devices. You can already do this with Windows Phone 7. Scott Klien, co-founder of Azure training and consulting firm Blue...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Importing and exporting data between on-premises SQL Server and SQL Azure just got a lot easier, and you can get started today with the availability of the Microsoft SQL Server "Denali" Data-tier Application...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] One of the reasons that SQL Azure is such a powerful tool is that it's based on the same database engine as SQL Server. For example, you can connect to the Microsoft SQL Azure Database with the sqlcmd...

The MSDN library content on using the VM role has been revised, reorganized, and expanded to more clearly describe the process for using the VM role. In Developing a VM Role in Windows Azure , each step of the process is explained in detail, including...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] At PDC 2010 - SQL Azure Data Sync CTP2 was announced and it has been progressing quite successfully with huge interest, so much so that we are going to continue to process registrations throughout...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] In this quick 10 minute video, you'll get an understanding of how to work with SQL Azure using .NET to create a web application. I'll demonstrate this using the latest technologies from Microsoft,...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] MSDN just recently performed an interview with Milind Tavshikar of QuantumID. Take a look at the interview below and learn more how our partners use SQL Azure to land strategic wins. Real World...

Cloud technologies can provide businesses with many benefits, such as access from anywhere, faster deployment, lower hardware costs and flexible payment options. If you're wondering if the Cloud is right for your business, join the free webcast, "Running...

David Pallmann , one of our Windows Azure MVPs , has just published a great new book, "The Windows Azure Handbook, Volume 1: Strategy & Planning" . According to David's post , this book has a two-fold mission: to make a case that cloud computing...

Join a free webinar Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 8:00 am PT with Gizmox VP of Research and Development, Itzik Spitzen, to learn how new migration and modernization tools are empowering businesses to transform their existing client/server applications ...

A new white paper, "The Global Conference is Real: The Success of the PDC10 Player and Application" , is now available for download. This white paper outlines how Microsoft transformed its Professional Developer Conference (PDC) into an unprecedented...

Jonathan Boutelle is cofounder and CTO of Slideshare, a site for the online social sharing of slideshows. A software engineer by training, his interests lie at the intersection of technology, business, and customer experience. He studied computer science...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 was released earlier this week and is now available for public download . L ightSwitch applications utilize Silverlight that can be run in the browser or on the desktop...

Srinivasan Sundara Rajan works at Hewlett Packard as a Senior Solution Architect. His primary focus is on enabling service-oriented architecture (SOA) through legacy modernization for automobile industries. He worked as a consultant for Compuware,...

Erica Brescia is the CEO of BitRock , a provider of multiplatform software deployment automation. Through the BitNami.org portal, it has simplified native, virtual, and cloud installations of popular open source software. Since joining the company...

Do you remember how to play the childhood game, Rock, Paper, Scissors? Are you a Windows Azure developer? If so, then be sure to take the Rock, Paper, Azure Challenge for your chance at prizes and bragging rights. In this online game, based on Rock...

To help aid the disaster recovery efforts in Japan, two new portals built on the Windows Azure platform have just been released. These portals are both designed to provide relief workers and the worldwide community with real-time access to the latest...

This week at the 2011 Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson introduced the new System Center 2012, which will enable IT managers to deliver private cloud services that empower business teams...

During his session yesterday at EclipseCon 2011 , Vijay Rajagopalan unveiled the March 2011 Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java. Available for download here , this new new plugin is an open source project...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Check out the blog post from Johannes Kebeck, that walks through the development of a service, showing the status of roads, following the tragic Japan earthquake and tsunami. "Recently I had the...

MIX11 , which will take place April 12 - 14, 2011 in Las Vegas, promises to offer top industry speakers and more than 130 sessions covering topics ranging from design and development to HTML5 and the cloud. The first sessions, which have just been...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Next week we have a webcast coming up that I encourage you to take advantage of. Doug Johnson (VP Marketing and Business Development for Acumatica), Ali Jani (VP Product Management for Acumatica) and...

How's this for an innovative use of technology to aid scientific discovery? Researchers at the University of Southampton recently launched a Windows Phone 7 with a digital camera 60,000 feet into the stratosphere to help study air pollution. According...

We're pleased to announce that new versions of the Windows Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) and Windows Azure Management Portal are now available to developers. The 1.4 version of the Windows Azure SDK includes new features for both Windows Azure...

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum 's mission is to bear witness to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993, and honor the nearly 3,000 victims of these attacks and those who risked their lives to save others...