The Cloud Zone
Windows Azure is the cloud-based development platform that lets you build and run applications in the cloud, deploy them with relative ease, and code using multiple technologies and languages such as .NET, Java, and PHP.
The Code Project, in partnership with Microsoft, has assembled a collection of articles, tips, and videos to help you get up-to-speed quickly with the Windows Azure programming model and platform.
Learn how large enterprise firms such as Siemens and T-Mobile are leveraging Azure to build high performance, scalable, and secure systems and how you can leverage Windows Azure, in combination with your existing toolset, to realise the same benefits of cloud computing.
Other topics covered include extending your applications for Windows Azure using Visual Studio; the top nine benefits of cloud computing and high availability cloud environments. We’ll also conduct a deep dive into some of the key technologies associated with Windows Azure: Azure AppFabric, storage, and more.
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by Omar Al Zabir
Caching large objects, duplicate objects, caching collections, live objects, thread unsafe...
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by Giorgio Lasala
Development of webservices using sandbox solutions
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by Shay Yannay
Create an email notifier using windows azure event error logs
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by Garry Lowther
Why Javascript/JQuery/HTML/CSS/DOM is creating an awful mess
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by Jan Van der Haegen
MyBizz Portal: The "smallest" LightSwitch application you have ever seen (LightSwitch Star...
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by Shay Yannay
Directories manipulation in Blobs Service
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by Omar Al Zabir
Caching large objects, duplicate objects, caching collections, live objects, thread unsafe...
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by Roman Kiss
This article describes a design, implementation and tooling of model driven WorkflowServices...
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by bhavik1st
An introductory article on Windows Azure - a cloud computing initiative by Microsoft
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by Mahmudul Haque Azad
This article contains step by step instructions to implement BDD in .NET project using Specflow...
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Discussions
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I signed up for the Microsoft Azure 90 Days Introductory Special because my school assignment requires me to use SQL Azure which is only available online(no emulator is available). I got charged for $68 for using 60 million transactions of the Azure Storage in less than 2 weeks. My school assignment is just a fake website for employees to apply for medical leave. Nobody can find this website, using Google or Bing search. And this website only has 3 pages and requires login to do anything. All my classmates did not get charged except me. I want to know if anyone here got a similar experience?
Well, this bad news can be a good thing for me. Because my company is tasking me to evaluate MS Azure: many of our customers are hosting our ASP.NET software themselves, they are asking if we can host it for them so that they can just log in and view the employee attendance. My company sells biometric devices and software. Luckily, I did not yet recommend MS Azure to my company; if the clients found out that they got charged such a big amount for checking employee attendance, I will be asked to leave.
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yes. After speaking to the representative, it got rolled back.
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I was damned pissed off when MS says my charges are valid. MS support officer emailed me last Tuesday that she will talk to the Business Desk Team again. Hopefully, my charges will be rolled back.
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yeah 
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MS finally agree to reverse my charges!!
Happy New Year, everyone!
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I had a similiar experience. I registered for the trial, set up all the stuff and few days later I was at 90% of the limit in the number of transactions. Thing is, I only did one thing: upload a .txt file to a blob and that's it. Never used the storage from code or from anywhere else for that matter. Luckily because of this I could just delete the whole storage before any charge would apply. Still, something at MS is definetely not working as it should be.
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What is Cloud Computing ? and How it is implemented?
what is the demand of cloud computing in future
suggest me any websites for learning
Regards,
PHANI
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Start here[^].
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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Cloud Computing[^]
and you can also find large no. of videos in youtube,just search for your query.
Hope it helps you.
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Yes, EC2 does support .NET, but not on the free tier. The cost can be very low if you only run the server for occasional tests, but is similar to a conventional hosted VM if you need it running all the time.
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If you are developing it for your purpose then better test it on your Emulator.
It has no more difference than local and server hosting.
It is very good for developer testing. It works same on Azure even.
If you are developing it for your client better ask him an account.
Queries are welcomed!
Regards,
Deepak.
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Getting Started
This paper begins by asking just what exactly is cloud computing. We will take a high-level look at how cloud computing works and how is that going to make an impact to our current working environment. In the later part of the paper, we will take a deeper look into one of the categories of cloud computing, SaaS (software as a service).
This article looks at privacy and security in cloud computing, and discusses the business and technical trade-offs of these cloud options versus more traditional SaaS and other hybrid server approaches
A pro-cloud perspective that showcases the importance of SQL Data Services (SDS).
Part I of a general overview of Windows Azure in an FAQ format. Explores basic questions like: What does Azure solve? What is the cost benefit of Azure versus internal hosting? What are the actual costs?
Windows Azure, Microsoft's Cloud Computing offering, has three type of storage available: blob, table, and queue. This article will demonstrate a semi-practical usage for each of these types to help you understand each and how they could be used.
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