June 2010 - Posts

Security Considerations with SQL Azure and PowerPivot by SQL Azure Team Blog

In this former blog post I discussed how to enable access to SQL Azure from PowerPivot. Now that access is enabled and the data is available to you, let’s examine how PowerPivot and SQL Azure work from a security perspective. Accessing the Data In order...

Pivot, OData, and Windows Azure: Visual Netflix Browsing by Windows Azure

Steve Marx , Technical Strategist for Windows Azure, has a post on his blog today about combining the newly released PivotViewer Silverlight control with Windows Azure to create a visual way to browse Netflix Instant Watch movies. From Steve’s blog post...

New Training Video Outlines Use of WIF in Windows Azure by Windows Azure

Don't miss the latest session of the WIF Workshop recordings , which covers the use of Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) in Windows Azure and provides practical advice on aspects of distributed development such as handling NLB sessions,...

Managing Connections in PowerPivot by SQL Azure Team Blog

A good friend of mine that analyzes databases with business intelligence for a living has told me that the majority of his job is knowing the data. PowerPivot makes it very easy to add additional tables, and bring together multiple data sources –allowing...

Download: Troubleshooting and Optimizing Queries with SQL Azure by SQL Azure Team Blog

This paper provides guidelines on the Dynamic Management Views that are available in SQL Azure, and how they can be used for troubleshooting purposes. Download it here . Do you have questions, concerns, comments about the whitepaper? Post them below and...

Realtime Shared Experiences with Messenger Connect by Windows Live for Developers

Communication and sharing has emerged over the past few years as a critical element making experiences more personalized and compelling across the web. Lots of sharing is done asynchronously (via activity feed or email), but for some things you want real...

Developing with Messenger Connect: Recognizable & intuitive by Windows Live for Developers

The primary goal of Messenger Connect is to help web sites & apps grow their traffic and engagement, at a reasonable cost. To that end, the technical implementation and business terms have been designed to be predictable for web developers and marketers...

Social Distribution by Windows Live for Developers

Messenger social is the “newsfeed” which is associated with a Windows Live user and shown to their Messenger contacts across Windows Live, including Messenger and Hotmail. The new Messenger full view is optimized for showing users their friend’s activity...

Exceedra Outlines its Proof of Concept Project with Windows Azure by Windows Azure

If you're interested in hearing about one company's experiences with Windows Azure then you should check out the new Channel 9 video, " Windows Azure Learnings - Exceedra's 3 week Proof of Concept ." In it, Microsoft's David...

WinForm Application Streaming from SQL Azure by SQL Azure Team Blog

In this blog post, we are proving code for a sample WinForm application that streams images from SQL Azure to a PictureBox control. Our goal is to show how you can stream large BLOB data from a varbinary(max) column in SQL Azure to the WinForm application...

The June 2010 Identity Training Kit Contains Powerpoint Decks, Videos by Vibro.NET

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“That solution doesn’t scale” by Matias Woloski's Blog

I posted yesterday about a poor man’s distributed caching solution using Windows Azure queues and ASP.NET cache. I’ve got an interesting comment in twitter: My short answer is that there aren’t solutions that scale or doesn’t scale. The scalability is...

Identity (authentication, profile & relationships) by Windows Live for Developers

There are over 500 million Windows Live IDs that are used every month. That is a lot of users who can sign into web sites. In addition to base level authentication you can also pre-fill registration forms with things such as the user’s email address,...

Poor man’s memcached for Windows Azure by Matias Woloski's Blog

Part of working with the Windows Azure guidance team is not only about writing but it’s also about helping customers and understanding real life problems. This help us validate and enrich the content. One of the customers we are helping has an hybrid...

Introducing Zane!!!! by SQL Azure Team Blog

Hi All, Just another quick note to round out a great day. I would like to introduce Zane Adam, our new GM of Marketing for SQL Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric, Microsoft Codename ”Dallas”, and middleware. Zane just made his first post to his new blog which...
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