We recently published this case study on Advanced Telemetry , a startup that offers an extensible, remote, energy-monitoring-and-control software framework. The company migrated its telemetry solution to the Windows Azure Platform in order to expand into new vertical markets without having to incur the costs of investing in server infrastructure. As part of their solution the company used Windows Azure, SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric. AppFabric Service Bus is used by the developers in order...

Ever wanted to have something running in the background servicing your Web Role in Windows Azure? Maybe you want to preload often read but seldom written values from SQL Azure or you’d like to download content in the background on … More » Blog Post by: Christian Martinez

Introduction In the first article of the series we discussed how to exchange messages with an orchestration via a two-way WCF Receive Location using the Duplex Message Exchange Pattern. This form of bi-directional communication is characterized by the ability of … More » Blog Post by: Paolo Salvatori

I recently built an application where I wanted to write some arbitrary text onto a video.  I was using Expression Encoder 4 and had a difficult time finding some examples and documentation, aside from some basic MSDN documentation on the MediaItem class.  I was eventually able to figure it out, but it took a little [...] Blog Post by: Wade

The AppFabric CTP services in our Labs environment preview the future enhancements and capabilities that we are planning to release in the near future. In order to better serve our customers who are using the CTP AppFabric services we created a new forum: Windows Azure AppFabric CTP Forum . The new forum launched last week and has already attracted questions and views. If you are using the AppFabric CTP services be sure to use this forum as a valuable resource to get help. Through the forum you will...