These are the books I did Technical Review for apress Inc.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Checking the Health Status of Windows Azure services
Once you have deployed your application and its in production environment.
If you want to check the health of Azure services which are running in any of the geographical location which you have choosen as afinity while creating the service project.
Microosft offers the health status of each and every Azure service running in all the data centers.
It shows health for current day to last 6 more days, liste under "Status History" sections towards the bottom of the page.
You can check the health of the services by following this url http://status.windowsazure.com/
If you want to check the health of Azure services which are running in any of the geographical location which you have choosen as afinity while creating the service project.
Microosft offers the health status of each and every Azure service running in all the data centers.
It shows health for current day to last 6 more days, liste under "Status History" sections towards the bottom of the page.
You can check the health of the services by following this url http://status.windowsazure.com/
Monday, April 19, 2010
Connecting with SQL Azure through SSMS
In order to connect with SQL Azure Db, you need special version of SQL Server Management Studio.
Ability to connect with SQL Azure is buid in "SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP".
You can download this from SQL Server® 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview - Express
Ability to connect with SQL Azure is buid in "SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP".
You can download this from SQL Server® 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview - Express
TownHall - an Engagement program hosted on Windows Azure
Windows Azure team developed a new Azure based feature, known as TownHall.
This is a software which will aloow to create applications where people seek opinions, message-boards, vote etc. TownHall applications will be based on REST API in the Azure which will enable the delivery of clients on a number of platforms, in order to store the collected data, database used for this will be on SQL Azure.
There is no License fee for TownHall, you only pay for the WindowsAzure. Some common scenarios where TownHall can be used:
Note- I am not sure how long this site is available for demo purpose.
You can download the design templates, themes for TownHall development from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/TownHall/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4209
This is a software which will aloow to create applications where people seek opinions, message-boards, vote etc. TownHall applications will be based on REST API in the Azure which will enable the delivery of clients on a number of platforms, in order to store the collected data, database used for this will be on SQL Azure.
There is no License fee for TownHall, you only pay for the WindowsAzure. Some common scenarios where TownHall can be used:
- Event hosting as offered by evite etc
- Engagement with communities
- Message boards
- Vote
- Fan clubs , followers etc
Note- I am not sure how long this site is available for demo purpose.
You can download the design templates, themes for TownHall development from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/TownHall/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4209
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