September 29, 2010
[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]As we were developing this week's posts on utilizing Entity Framework with SQL Azure we had an opportunity to sit down and talk with Faisal…
September 29, 2010
[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]One of the great uses for ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.0 that ships with .NET Framework 4.0 is to use the model first approach to design your SQL…
September 28, 2010
[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]This week I’ll be spending some time diving into using Entity Framework with SQL Azure. The Entity Framework provides the glue between your…
September 24, 2010
The Windows Azure Domain Name System (DNS) is moving to a new globally distributed infrastructure, which will increase performance and improve reliability of DNS resolution. In particular,…
September 24, 2010
[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]The Microsoft Patterns & Practices group has published the second free online book volume about Developing Applications for the Cloud on the…
September 23, 2010
*NOTE: RAVEN Cloud was released December 8, 2010 is now publicly available as a subscription service. Read the press release to learn more. As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we…
September 23, 2010
[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]This is the second post in a series about getting started with Microsoft Project Code-Named “Houston” (Houston) (Part 1). In part 1 we…
September 21, 2010
To make it easier for Windows Azure customers to keep track of their compute hours usage, we are now sending customers emails notifications when their compute hour usage exceeds 75%, 100% and 125% of…
September 21, 2010
[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]Hi everyone. I’m Steve Yi, technical product manager for SQL Azure. You’ll start seeing posts from me on the SQL Azure blog so…
September 21, 2010
During his keynote at the Open Source India conference, in Chennai, India this past Sunday, Vijay Rajagopalan, principal architect for Microsoft's Interoperability Strategy team, presented the…