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Microsoft Azure Readiness Kit for DevCamps February 2016 update

ByRicardo Villalobos

Content for the Microsoft Azure Readiness Kit DevCamps has been recently updated to reflect the latest announcements, including PaaS, App Services, IaaS, Machine Learning, Data platform and storage, Media, Integration and Identity. Great resource for beginners that want to understand the Azure platform or for experts who need a quick refresh on the multiple Azure…

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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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

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Windows Azure Domain Name System Improvements

ByRicardo Villalobos

When you publish an application to Windows Azure, it gets its own subdomain in cloudapp.net. In order to make name resolution even faster (particularly outside the USA), the Domain Name System (DNS) used by Azure is moving to a new globally distributed infrastructure. As the article mentions, there is no customer action required. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/09/24/windows-azure-domain-name-system-improvements.aspx