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General availability is 21st October. Visit the Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Fx 4 Beta site for more information, downloads, forums and to submit feedback. There have been significant changes to the SKU line-up / packaging and licensing to simplify the SKU
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If you’re on the Azure CTP (and specifically one of the early participants, eg a PDC attendee) then there’s a good chance you’ll have received an email like this one: I do have a couple of problems with this mail. i think it could be a bit clearer in
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Last week I talked about how to get started with Windows Azure . In this post I want to take the simple ASP.NET app I’d built and deploy that to the cloud. One of the great things about Windows Azure is all you have to deploy is the app and some configuration
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If you’re not sure what Windows Azure is, may I recommend Steve Marx excellent hand drawn video . The easiest way to get yourself setup to build an Azure application is: Enable Yourself Get yourself a Windows Azure token. This allows you to deploy to
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I sat in on a Windows Azure session given by my colleague David Gristwood recently. He talked a great deal about the fundamentals of the Azure platform , the compute and storage capabilities , as well as talking about other components such as SQL Services
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If you saw my Azure videos you’ll know that I went along to what was the first meeting of a new usergroup specifically interested in Azure – UK Azure NET. Their next meeting is on Tuesday 19th May from 6.15pm to 9.30pm at the Microsoft London office.
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A few weeks ago I went along to the inaugural UK Azure Net Usergroup meeting and with the help of Simon Davies (all round Azure expert) collared a few people to get their views on cloud computing and Windows Azure. I’d like to apologise in advance for
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A couple of weeks ago I went along to the first meeting of a new Windows Azure community in the UK – the UK Azure NET usergroup. While I was there I captured a bit of video of the goings-on and interviewed Ravi Nar of Dot Net Solutions . Ravi and co are
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One of the new features in IE8 that I really like, simple though it is, is Accelerators. In particular I find it useful for mapping. Addresses tend to be fiddly things to type and why should I cut & paste to a new browser window when I can just highlight
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Today I’ve been playing around with IE8 Accelerators and using Windows Azure as the hosting mechanism. As usual I bumped into a few obstacles so here’s a quick summary of progress so far: The Development Storage Integration expects you to have SQL Express
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As well as MikeT’s excellent Live Framework videos on C9 I see we’ve also published the first in a series of “How Do I?” videos on the Azure Services Platform with entries on Windows Azure, .NET Services and Live Services all gathered together in one
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