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The Windows Azure Training Kit October 2012 is now available

ByRicardo Villalobos

I have updated the links on my blog to reflect that the October 2012 release of the Windows Azure Training Kit is available now. A new page has been added to the main Windows Azure website, where you can find more information on how to use it. Among the changes and new features that you…

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Home Energy Monitoring on Windows Phone

ByRicardo Villalobos

Interesting article on how to create a C# project to monitor energy in your house, based on the "Standard Envy Kit" USB interface. Good example of how to create a Web Service and consume / display information on a Windows Phone application. I will report results once I have tried it myself. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/coding4fun/archive/2010/09/27/10068304.aspx

Installing SQL Server Express 2008 R2 on Windows Azure Cloud and Its Usage Scenarios

ByRicardo Villalobos

Installing SQL Server on a VM Role is not a pattern that Microsoft recommends for different reasons (including local storage scalability), but this article exposes some interesting ways of using this approach for cost saving purposes. Click here to open link…

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Supporting mobile device applications using RESTful services running on Windows Azure

ByRicardo Villalobos

I recently wrote an article with my friend and colleague Bruno Terkaly for MSDN magazine on using Windows Azure to support mobile device applications (including iOS, Android, and Windows Phone) that require back-end services. The solution that we propose is based on a REST style architecture, a very popular approach that provides flexibility and speed….