The new Windows Azure pricing calculator lets you pick compute, database, storage, bandwidth, CDN and Service Bus capacity based on your needs. Along with predicting your expected monthly costs, the pricing calculator then recommends the most cost effective offer for you to purchase Windows Azure platform services. You can access the pricing calculator here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing-calculator/
I don't have a Kindle – yet -, but this is great news. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2010/09/23/hundreds-of-microsoft-press-ebooks-now-available-in-the-kindle-store.aspx
The April 2013 version of the Windows Azure Training Kit is now available for download. You can find it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8396 Content Updates: • New Presentation: Windows Azure Mobile Services and Android • New Lab: Windows Azure Mobile Services and Android • New Lab: Windows Azure Mobile Services and Windows Phone • New Presentation: Introduction…
Extremely convenient… Click here to open link…
I always get questions about the Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS), and how to use it. This blog entry from Alik Levin explains its architecture, and a simple example on how it can be used for external authentication. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alikl/archive/2010…
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
Great news for developers using the Sync Framework. The new 4.0 version CTP now supports OData natively. No need to install the Sync Framework client anymore, offering clients like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile, and even the iPhone to consume and synchronize data with SQL Server/SQL Azure. Click here to open link…
