We have some *free* Azure training coming up March 15 – 17 in Irvine CA.This is a 3-day instructor-led workshop.   Windows Azure Platform - Training Workshop Abstract The Microsoft Developer & Platform is pleased to announce a Metro Workshop event focused on Developers covering the Windows Azure Platform, for Microsoft partners and customers. Delivered through workshop style presentations and hands-on lab exercises, the workshop will focus on three key services of the Windows Azure Platform...

We are starting a webcast series featuring ISVs that are using the Windows Azure Platform. Our first webcast “ Managing Your Website on the Azure Cloud: Benefits for IT & Business Leaders ” will feature SiteCore. SiteCore provides a content management solution for enterprise websites. To register to the webcast follow this link: https://www.eventbuilder.com/microsoft/event_desc.asp?p_event=k67q797n You can read more about SiteCore’s Windows Azure Platform based solution at: SiteCore’s website...

Prior to the release of the Windows Azure 1.3 SDK, Web roles hosted your application in IIS Hosted Web Core (HWC).  While there were certainly ways to extend HWC, for the most part you were stuck with a single application bound to no more than a single HTTP or HTTPS endpoint.  This model enabled only [...] Blog Post by: Wade

When you create a new WorkflowConsole application you will see a line of code like this 1: WorkflowInvoker.Invoke( new Workflow1()); Looks innocent enough right? If you were only going to invoke this activity once this is not a problem.  But what if you were going to invoke this activity thousands of times? Suppose you wanted to use the activity in a WCF Service? What would the performance characteristic be? You need to understand what happens when you create and invoke an activity. There is...

If you take a good look at the latest Release Notes for the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February Release – or if you jump directly into the new SDK and try to programmatically configure the Caching client – you’ll quickly discover that the DataCacheSecurity class now requires a System.Security.SecureString instead of a string. The reason [...] Blog Post by: Wade