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Free Webcasts – IE8 Add On Features & Azure Design PatternsYesterday

Each month through June 2010, we’ll bring you a 60-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs.

March 25, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST

Title:  Extending Your Sites Reach with IE8 Add On Features

Abstract Today's users are getting more sophisticated and they expect more features from the sites and services they use. In this session learn about how to implement low effort, high value add-ons that expand your sites reach and bring value to your customer base .

Link to Register: https://swrt.worktankseattle.com/webcast/4240/preview.aspx

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March 26, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST

Title:  Windows Azure Design Patterns

Abstract:One of the challenges in adopting a new platform is finding usable design patterns that work for developing effective solutions. The Catch-22 is that design patterns are discovered and not invented. Nevertheless it is important to have some guidance on what design patterns make sense early in the game.

This webcast attacks the problem through a set of appli

SQL Azure – Relational Database as a Service – Soup to Nuts – The Whole EnchiladaFebruary 23

This post will be very direct. It will get a database running in the Azure cloud as quickly as possible. There is plenty of material about why SQL Azure might be of interest and how it works. Go to Bing and type SQL Azure and you’ll get all the reasons that SQL Azure is the right solution in many scenarios. www.microsoftpdc.com is a great place to start.

Brief Goals

• Build a simple data driven ASP.NET Page using the graphical controls in Visual Studio 2008
• Develop against a local SQL Server/SQL Express database before connecting to SQL Azure

Steps in this post

1. Create the northwind database
2. Add northwind to sql server
3. Create a cloud project with 1 web role
4. Add a grid and attach grid’s data source our data (Northwind database)
5. Run our cloud application against local data
6. Create a SQL Azure database
7. Download and install the SQL Server Migration Wizard
8. Upload the customers table to SQL Azure
9. Change our connection string to point our app to the cloud
10. Run our app and verify everything works using the data from SQL Azure (NorthwindInCloud)

The Northwind database – where to download

Do a search on Bing for “Northwind and pubs Sample Databases for SQL Server 2000” and you should find this link:

Windows Azure Project Layout – Understanding the Architecture of a Finished ApplicationFebruary 21

In this post we are going to use an adapted Guestbook application from the Windows Azure Training Kit. This is an excellent demo because it covers all the main topics in one demo:

• Web roles
• Worker roles
• Storage Services

Understanding A Finished Project

http://brunoblogfiles.com/zips/WhackyPhotos.zip

In this post we are going to use an adapted Guestbook application from the Windows Azure Training Kit. I wanted something more colorful and I wanted to play around with some of the code I had laying around.

Purpose of Screen: The main application screen

How To Get This Screen: : Run the application

Simple Projects

The projects are either class libra

Mark your calendar – Agile Presentation in San Francisco on March 2ndFebruary 21

What

Using Agile with Large, Geographically Dispersed Development Teams

When

Monday, Feb 22, 2010 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm

Where

San Francisco Agile Meetup Group

835 Market Street, 7th Floor, Golden Gate Rooms, San Francisco

http://www.sfagile.org/calendar/12262755/

Abstract

It seems like everyone wants to scale their agile teams. The Agile approach to software development needs to scale up to larger team sizes as projects grow in scope. Agile also needs to scale out to handle geographically distributed teams. Both are challenging propositions for many teams. I talk about my experiences at Microsoft; scaling agile up on the Visual Studio Tools for Office team and scaling out on the radically distributed teams within the patterns & practices gr

Visual Studio 2010 RC Rocks – Getting Started with Cloud Computing – 3 Steps to the Clouds (Azure)February 10

I just downloaded VS 2010 RC and it is a beautiful thing – fast, clean interface – you name it. Dare I say, the best developer tool since the dawn of computing. We’ve come a long way from the days of simple editors.

Downloading and Installing

The first step is to do the install. But before you can install, you need to download it.

Purpose of Screen: To show the download file as an ISO file

How To Get This Screen: You will need to have downloaded the ISO to see this

Access your MSDN Subscription

Purpose of Screen: Download location for VS 2010 RC

How To Get This Screen: : Access your MSDN subscription

Installing

You have a couple of choices here:

1. Burn a DVD from the