How To's (Videos)
One of the promises of cloud computing is that it will enable applications to take advantage of nearly limitless computing and storage. To gain these benefits the applications need to be deployed in Windows Azure. In this video Scott Golightly will cover some of the common steps that you should consider when moving your existing ASP.NET application to Windows Azure. Scott will look at the classified ads starter kit available from
www.asp.net and discuss some of the things to be aware of when moving the database to use SQL Azure storage and migrating the ASP.NET application to Windows Azure.
The AppFabric services, which form part of the Windows Azure platform, allow for various cloud-based service routing scenarios. In this introductory video, Hilton Giesenow, host of The MOSS Show SharePoint podcast (
http://www.TheMossShow.com/) shows us how to sign up to the service, create a new project and namespace, and redirect a Windows Communication Foundation client and service to route the conversation via the service bus environment.
In this follow-on video, we expand on what we set up in part 1 to use the Microsoft Sync Framework libraries and providers from our .Net code. This allows us to embed the synchronisation capabilities into our applications and hook into the various available events. Join Hilton Giesenow, host of The MOSS Show SharePoint podcast (
http://www.TheMossShow.com/) as he walks us through the steps.
In this video, Max Adams demonstrates some techniques for exporting a local SQL Server 2008 database into SQL Azure, using export scripts.
Cloud Computing is here to stay and Microsoft is providing Organizations and developers with the Windows Azure platform to leverage this growing trend towards SaaS (Software as a Service).
Join Max Adams as he investigates what Windows Azure is and how to begin thinking about how your organization should be jumping onboard with Microsoft Windows Azure.
The Access Control Services in the AppFabric portion of Windows Azure offer a suite of claims-based services providing both authentication and authorization in the cloud. These services can be used in a variety of scenarios and in this video Hilton Giesenow, host of
The MOSS Show SharePoint podcast shows us how to use ACS to provide a security model on top of a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service.
What if you could get all the benefits of distributed, on-premises application databases AND hosted cloud-based databases for a real Software + Services implementation? In this video, Hilton Giesenow, host of The MOSS Show SharePoint podcast (
http://www.TheMossShow.com/) shows us how to set up a powerful and easy-to-use synchronisation model between a local Microsoft SQL Server database and a Microsoft SQL Azure database with the Microsoft Sync Framework tools for SQL Azure.
One part of the Windows Azure platforms AppFabric services is the ability to create, send message to and receive messages from a cloud-based message queuing system - the azure Message Buffer. Join Hilton Giesenow, host of The MOSS Show SharePoint podcast (
http://www.TheMossShow.com/) as he shows us in this video how to create a new Message Buffer and send and receive messages to and from it. The video looks at simple text-based messages as well as using complex custom types.
Using the Azure Diagnostics assemblies are an important feature of Microsoft Windows Azure Platform. In this video, Max Adams will delve into using the assemblies and the Trace class to log application information within Azure storage.
This video includes:
- Connecting to SQL Azure and retrieving a SQL session id
- Using the Diagnostics assembly in Azure to store logs to Azure storage
There are three ways of using Azure Storage in the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform services. In this video, Max Adams will introduce the three methods and deep-dive into using the Tables storage method to store structured data in Azure storage.