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 this week.

Articles and Blog Posts

• WCF Error Handling by @tyler_gd (posted April 25)
• Windows Azure Storage for the ASP.NET Developer by @stratospher_es (posted April 25)
• SQL Azure Backup Infrastructure by @ClickRex (posted April 24)
• A Tale of Two Emulators and a VM by @BrianLoesgen (posted April 24)
• (Windows) Azure Storage Services Asynchronously in Java by @udooz (posted April 20) 

Upcoming Events, and User Group Meetings

Americas

• April 28: Vancouver TechFest 2012 – Burnaby, BC, Canada
• May (multiple dates): Windows Azure Kick Start – USA Midwest (3 cities)
• May 1: Aditi (Windows) Azure Summit – Boston, MA
• May 2: New Jersey (Windows) Azure User Group Meeting – Iselin, NJ
• May 14: Central Ohio Computer User Group – Columbus, OH
• May – June (multiple dates): Windows Azure Workshops – Canada (6 cities)
• June 11-14: Microsoft TechEd North America 2012 – Orlando, FL

Europe

• May 1-2: (Windows) Azure Lifesaver Course – Dublin, UK
• May 8: UK Windows Azure User Group – London, UK
• May 9: Windows Azure User Group Meeting – Manchester, UK
• May 10: Aditi London (Windows) Azure Summit – London, UK
• May 11: Windows Azure Bootcamp – London, UK
• May 15-16:CloudConf 2012 – Moscow, Russia
• May 16: Big Data using Hadoop on Windows Azure – Antwerp, Belgium
• May 18: Windows Azure Bootcamp – Liverpool, UK
• June 2: Windows Azure Saturday – Huizingen, Belgium
• June 22: Microsoft UK Cloud Day – London, UK
• May 23-24: DevCon 12 – Moscow, Russia
• June 26-29: Microsoft TechEd Europe – Amsterdam, Netherlands

Other

• May 22-24: Integration Master Class with Richard Seroter – Australia (3 cities)
• Ongoing:  Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts – Online

Recent Windows Azure Forums Discussion Threads

• Custom Session State Provider Based on (Windows) Azure Cache Makes the Application Very Slow – 944 views, 5 replies
• Pub/Sub w/ Multiple Subscribers – 592 views, 4 replies
• Traffic Manager Perf Policy with 2 Services in Same Datacenter – 600 views, 5 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