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Windows Azure – Developers Guide – Part 2 – Web and Worker Role “Hello world”

In my earlier post I talked about the Windows Azure features for the developer, In this post I will create a Simple “Hello world” Application using the Web and Worker Role. First thing first , If you haven’t downloaded the Windows Azure SDK and the Windows Azure Tools For Visual studio (We can develop on VS2008 but VS2010 is recommended) please download it Here . After installing we can create our first Windows Azure Solution : When Prompt choose the ASP.NET and Worker role: You can click on the...

Windows Azure – Developers Guide – Part 1 – Introduction to Programming the Microsoft Cloud

After many question and talks to developers and friends, I discovered that the “Microsoft Cloud” or Windows Azure is still a big mystery to most of the developers. In this series of post I will try to simply introduce the Tools , Tasks , Architecture and Challenges that developers need to know before and while entering “Cloud Computing” with Microsoft Azure. The way I see it there are 4 main ways we can use the Windows Azure Platform : Compute Virtual Host Storage SQL Azure Compute – Web and Worker...

New Windows Azure Virtual Labs

A very fast and useful way to practice and learn programing for Windows azure is those virtual labs : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dd540819 There are 5 excellent labs: Windows Azure Platform Virtual Labs MSDN Virtual Lab: Windows Azure Native Code New! MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Windows Azure Services with PHP MSDN Virtual Lab: Getting Started with Windows Azure Storage MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Windows Azure Services MSDN Virtual Lab: Using Windows Azure Tables Enjoy.