Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here are the highlights from last week.
Articles and Blog Posts
- Windows Azure Custom Monitoring in C# by Hovhannes Avoyan, Sys-Con Media (posted April 18)
- How to Handle Impact of Auto-scaling Down your Worker Role Instances by @paddix (posted April 17)
- Introducing Windows Azure – Creating Your First ASP.NET Web Role Project by @maheshdotnet (posted April 17)
- Logging in Windows Azure: Part 2-Table Storage by @tyler_gd (posted April 17)
- Windows Azure Adding Multiple Certificate to Hosted Service Using PowerShell and C# by Arun Rakwal (posted April 15)
Upcoming Events, and User Group Meetings
- April 24: Windows Azure Rapid Design Workshop – Mountain View, CA
- April 24: Windows Azure Cloud Discovery – Belfast, UK
- April 25: Vancouver Windows Azure Meetup – Vancouver, BC, Canada
- April 25: Building Games with Windows Azure Services – Boston, MA
- April 26: Sales@night: (Windows) Azure – Brussels, Belgium
- April 26: Dutch Windows Azure User Group Meeting – Nieuwegein, Netherlands
- April 28: Vancouver TechFest 2012 – Burnaby, BC, Canada
- May 9: Windows Azure User Group Meeting – Manchester, UK
- May 11: Windows Azure Bootcamp – London, UK
- May 18: Windows Azure Bootcamp – Liverpool, UK
- May 22-24: Integration Master Class with Richard Seroter – Australia (3 cities)
- June 11-14: Microsoft TechEd North America 2012 – Orlando, FL
- June 22: Microsoft UK Cloud Day – London, UK
- June 26-29: Microsoft TechEd Europe – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Ongoing: Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts – Online
Recent Windows Azure Forums Discussion Threads
- (Windows) Azure Project Templates Not Visible in Visual Studio – 331 views, 23 replies
- Custom Session State Provider-based on Windows Azure Cache Makes Application Very Slow – 794 views, 5 replies
- Benefits of SQL Azure Federations vs Roll-Your-Own – 188 views, 3 replies
- How to Retrieve Token for Service Bus from ACS? – 875 views, 9 replies
Send us articles that you’d like us to highlight, or content of your own that you’d like to share. And let us know about any local events, groups or activities that you think we should tell the rest of the Windows Azure community about. You can use the comments section below, or talk to us on Twitter @WindowsAzure.
Have a great weekend!
Himanshu