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Archives for December 2010

Want to get into Azure for free?

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Merry Christmas folks!

Here’s a lovely SaaSy Christmas present for you all!

In this video Steve Plank from Microsoft shows how MSDN Premium/Ultimate and BizSpark members can get some Azure services for free.

If you’re an MSDN Premium subscriber or BizSpark member, you can have 750 hours of compute a month, 10 GB of storage, 1,000,000 transactions, 5 service bus connections, 1,000,000 access control, 3x 1GB Web Edition Databases on SQL Azure.

Services by Subscription Level (no extra charge) * Premium, Ultimate & BizSpark
Windows Azure Small compute instance 750 hours / month
Storage 10 GB
Transactions 1,000,000 / month
AppFabric Service Bus Connections 5 / month
Access Control Transactions 1,000,000 / month
SQL Azure Web Edition databases (1GB) 3
Data Transfers Europe and North America 7 GB in / month
14 GB out / month
Asia Pacific 2.5 GB in / month
5 GB out / month

 

So now we have no excuses, right?

PDC10 – Scott Guthrie Post Keynote Interview

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Windows Phone 7 Developer Coolness

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft Developer Division VP and all round .NET guru, talks about the keynote at this years Microsoft Professional Developer Conference. They gave each attendee a Windows Phone 7! I’m really jealous now.

Scott also talks about the developer tools available for Windows Phone 7, Silverlight development with Expression Blend and the Windows Phone 7 SDK.

You get a sneak peek at the Twitter app for Windows Phone 7 – also written in Silverlight showing off many of the controls from the SDK.

Scott also discusses the Office Marketplace and you see a few examples of the thousands of Windows Phone 7 applications that are already available on the Martketplace.