Archive of posts filed under the Azure category.

ReMix Talk

Posted by Sergey Barskiy on 9 May 2010, 8:07 pm

As I posted previously, I talked at Atlanta ReMix 2010 conference past Saturday.  Entire event was a a success, we had over 200 people there.  We had great presenters and good topics.  My topic was “Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Azure: A Match Made for the Web”

You can download PowerPoint presentation here.  You can download solution here.  To get solution up and going, you need to have Visual Studio 2010 installed, along with Silverlight 4 tools and Azure tools.  You will also need to sign up for an account on Azure and SQL Azure.  You will need to update web.config file and ServiceReference.ClientConfig file.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you.

Filed under Azure, Community, Entity Framework, Silverlight.
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ReMix 2010 in Atlanta

Posted by Sergey Barskiy on 1 May 2010, 1:41 pm

If you have not registered for this fine event I blogged about previously, you have a week left.

You can register for it here: http://reMIXatlanta.org.  You can also check out the list of session that will be presented there.

Yours truly will be presented a session there as well.  The title will be “Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Azure: A Match Made for the Web”.

Here is what they session is about:

By combining the rich user experience of Silverlight with the scalability of Windows Azure compute and storage, you can build some incredible end-to-end web applications. In this session we will discuss the business advantages of running Silverlight applications in the cloud. We will cover the steps necessary to build Silverlight applications for deployment in Azure including: data access with SQL Azure, cloud storage, communication mechanisms and data access options. We will also demonstrate how the same approach works for Windows Phone 7 development.

I am just as excited about speaking as I am about attending other sessions.  One can always learn a ton at the community events.

Filed under Azure, Community, Silverlight.
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Windows Azure

Posted by Sergey Barskiy on 30 January 2010, 9:30 am

I just want to relay Microsoft’s new offer to everyone.  Windows Azure is now offered for free for a limited time.  This is an introductory offer to get more people to use new cloud platform from Microsoft.  Please see this link for details.

Filed under Azure.
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Speaking at Atlanta .NET Users Group

Posted by Sergey Barskiy on 26 January 2010, 8:15 pm

I spoke at Atlanta.NET Users Group yesterday, My topic was Azure Step-by-Step.

I talked about why someone would use Windows and SQL Azure, then I built a Silverlight application from scratch.  The application was designed to run in Windows Azure and use SQL Azure as database.  I demonstrated how to get maximum code re-use between traditional .NET web application and the same application developed for Azure.  At the end, I had an application that could run on either platform with just web.config change.

You can download the zip file with PowerPoint slides with useful links as well as the sample project I built here.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Filed under Azure, Community.
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Talk at GGMUG

Posted by Sergey Barskiy on 16 January 2010, 7:57 pm

As always I had fun presenting at Gwinnett Georgia Microsoft Users Group on Thursday.  The subject of my talk was “Getting started with SQL Azure”.  I documented all the steps in this blog post.  There are also useful links that I mentioned in this post to help you get started.

There are many advantages to use SQL Azure.  Number of reason is probably the fact that one can eliminate the need to house expensive hardware and software on premises.  As long as you are fine with living with certain limitations of SQL Azure compared to SQL Server 2008, you can take advantage of this great technology.  The primary limitation is probably the size of the database.  You cannot have a database bigger than 10 GB.

Feel free to ask any questions on the topic.

Filed under Azure, Data, SQL Server.
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Windows Azure Application

Posted by Sergey Barskiy on 13 November 2009, 9:58 pm

This is purely a bragging post :-)

I just deployed a test application to the cloud (Microsoft Azure): http://rolodex.cloudapp.net/

Here is the technology stack for it:

  1. Windows Azure
  2. SQL Azure
  3. CSLA 3.8.1
  4. Silverlight
  5. Entity Framework
  6. WCF
  7. Prism (Composite Application Guidance)
  8. Silverlight Toolkit

I promise to write a blog entry in the near future, the steps one has to follow through to create an Azure application.

Filed under Azure, Data, SQL Server, Silverlight, WCF.
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