One of the core benefits of Windows Azure is how it increases developers’ agility to get their ideas to market faster. We believe the ‘building block’ components and services that our community of developers is building illustrates this benefit by helping address particular scenarios and making the process of developing compelling and complete solutions on Windows Azure easier and faster.
 
‘Building block’ components and services are designed to be incorporated by other developers into their applications (e.g. a billing engine that developers can use to quickly add paid subscriptions to their web application).  Other examples include (but are not limited to) management tools, UI controls, and email services.
 
As one of the people responsible for marketing Windows Azure, I’m always on the lookout for the latest and greatest community-built components and services to help us showcase the unique benefits of Windows Azure. So if you’ve built a component, service, or application that helps make development on Windows Azure easier or faster, I want to hear from you. If you’re interested in learning more, please drop me an email and I’ll follow up with you.
 
Aashish Dhamdhere, Senior Product Manager, Windows Azure