This walkthrough explains how to easily create Line of Business (LOB) applications for the cloud by using Visual Studio LightSwitch and SQL Azure. The video highlights the benefits of Visual Studio LightSwitch and explains how you can quickly create powerful...

Dinakar Nethi has written an interesting TechNet Article about how the Dynamic Management Views that are available in SQL Azure and how they can be used for troubleshooting purposes. Take a look and get a feel for how easy it is to use SQL Azure. Click...

This walkthrough shows how to use SQL Azure Data Sync to provide bi-directional synchronization and data-management capabilities with on-premises and cloud databases. The video covers both the benefits and features of SQL Azure and explains how businesses...

We’ve been receiving questions about top on-going trends with regards to SQL Azure surrounding SQL Server limitations, and the access capabilities of co-administrators. Fortunately, the answers to both of these questions have been addressed in a...

Cihan Biyikoglu has written an interesting article on database schema when working with Federations. “With federations, you take parts of your schema and scale it out. With each federation in the root database, a subset of objects are scaled...

MSDN has created a Q&A article on Odata (Open Data Protocol). OData applies web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and JSON to provide access to information from a variety of applications, services, and stores. As web development...

In an effort to make it easier for you to stay on top of the latest product releases, resources, tools and news around the Windows Azure platform, today, we’re excited to announce that the SQL Azure blog is moving into what will now be called the...

Olivier Mangelschots is Managing Director at Orbit One Internet Solutions , a systems integrator based in Belgium that is deeply involved in Microsoft technology. In this interview we cover: Identity management in hybrid environments ...

If you’re considering a move to the cloud for your portfolio of applications, planning your journey just got a bit easier. The next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0— is now available for free...

Several new Windows Azure video tutorials have just been posted. These videos provide a quick introduction to a variety of topics, including how to connect enterprise assets with Windows Azure roles with a new feature called Windows Azure Connect...

Streamlined access to local weather information promises to empower product development ranging from consumer experience such as www.myweather.com , which provides real-time radar and a seamless worldwide satellite sector, to complex machine learning...

The latest blog post by Craig Kitterman on the Interoperability @ Microsoft blog, “New SDK and Sample Kit demonstrates how to leverage the scalability of Windows Azure with PHP ”, shares a couple of interesting announcements made recently...

UPDATE: The new Windows Azure Service Management API content is now available. Please refer to this post for more information. The Windows Azure Service Management API enables Windows Azure customers to programmatically manage their deployments,...

Today Fujitsu and Microsoft announced the first release of Fujitsu’s Global Cloud Platform service (“FGCP/A5”), powered by Windows Azure and running in Fujitsu’s datacenter in Japan. This service, which Fujitsu has been...

Rob Gillen is researching cloud computing technology for the government at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He also works for Planet Technologies, which recently launched a new cloud practice to assist government and public sector organizations with cloud...

If you’re considering a move to the cloud for your portfolio of applications, planning your journey just got a bit easier. The next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0— is now available for free...

Several new Windows Azure video tutorials have just been posted. These videos provide a quick introduction to a variety of topics, including how to connect enterprise assets with Windows Azure roles with a new feature called Windows Azure Connect...

UPDATE: The new Windows Azure Service Management API content is now available. Please refer to this post for more information. The Windows Azure Service Management API enables Windows Azure customers to programmatically manage their deployments,...

If you’re looking for a ready-to-use sample Java application for Windows Azure , you should check out Thomas Conte’s recent post, “Java sample application for Windows Azure.” In this helpful post, he describes the source code...

If you’d like to learn more about Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control service (ACS) and the latest Windows Azure Platform PowerShell and ACS cmdlets, you should check out the latest PowerScripting Podcast , “Episode 149 – Vittorio...

An update to the Windows Azure AppFabric SDK is now available for download. This SDK includes API libraries for building connected applications using Windows Azure AppFabric . This updated SDK introduces fixes to a few bugs related to the Caching service...

As just announced on the AppFabric Team Blog, the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP is now available. This CTP includes capabilities that make it easy for developers to build, deploy, manage and monitor multi-tier applications across web, business logic...

Would you like to code your own player "bot" and test your skills online against other Windows Azure developers in the United States, Canada, China, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom for bragging rights AND a chance at $5,000? Then be...

Looking for code samples? Have you visited the Windows Azure Code Samples page? We have been working hard to add and update the code samples based on customer feedback. Please visit the Code Samples page and let us know not just what you think but also...

The June 2011 CTP (Community Technology Preview) of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java is now available for download. This plugin is intended to help Eclipse users create and configure deployment packages of their Java applications for the...

Olivier Mangelschots is Managing Director at Orbit One Internet Solutions , a systems integrator based in Belgium that is deeply involved in Microsoft technology. In this interview we cover: Identity management in hybrid environments ...

Rob Gillen is researching cloud computing technology for the government at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He also works for Planet Technologies, which recently launched a new cloud practice to assist government and public sector organizations with cloud...

Jason Bloomberg is managing partner and senior analyst at the enterprise architecture advisory firm ZapThink LLC. He is a thought leader in the areas of enterprise architecture and service-oriented architecture, and he helps organizations around the...

If you’re considering a move to the cloud for your portfolio of applications, planning your journey just got a bit easier. The next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0— is now available for free...

The latest blog post by Craig Kitterman on the Interoperability @ Microsoft blog, “New SDK and Sample Kit demonstrates how to leverage the scalability of Windows Azure with PHP ”, shares a couple of interesting announcements made recently...

UPDATE: The new Windows Azure Service Management API content is now available. Please refer to this post for more information. The Windows Azure Service Management API enables Windows Azure customers to programmatically manage their deployments,...

Today Fujitsu and Microsoft announced the first release of Fujitsu’s Global Cloud Platform service (“FGCP/A5”), powered by Windows Azure and running in Fujitsu’s datacenter in Japan. This service, which Fujitsu has been...

The updated Windows Azure Service Management API content is now available. Refer to this content to learn how to programmatically create, update, or delete storage services using the following new methods: Create Storage Account, Update Storage Account...

As announced today in the post, “ “Tribune Releases Mosaic App for Windows 7” , on the Windows Team Blog , Tribune Company today unveiled the final release of Mosaic by Tribune . Mosaic is a free, customizable application that offers...

Today we’re pleased to announce a change in pricing for the Windows Azure platform that will provide significant cost savings for customers whose cloud applications experience substantial inbound traffic, and customers interested in migrating large...

Earlier this week the Windows Azure platform was named Best Cloud Service at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London. Now in its third year, the Cloud Computing World Series Awards celebrate outstanding achievements in the IT market. This year’s...

We are continually looking for ways to make it easier for you to stay on top of the latest product releases, resources, tools and news around Windows Azure & SQL Azure. Today, we’re happy to announce another step in that direction with the consolidation...

We announced several updates to Windows Azure at MIX11. One was a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Azure Traffic Manager, which allows you to load-balance traffic to multiple hosted services. Today we are pleased to announce that an updated...