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Microsoft Azure Cloud Services and Mobile Applications

July 22, 2010 by Joel Jeffery

I’ve just come across another great video from Jason Zander at the UK Tech Days event in Reading. This time it’s about mobile applications and the Azure platform.

I’ve been following the Microsoft cloud service offerings for a couple of years since the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference 2008. What started as SQL Server Data Services and the nascent BizTalk Services, has now grown into an offering that in my opinion does not just complete with Amazon and Google cloud services, but far exceeds the capabilities of their model.

Here’s a screenshot of a really simple ASP.NET page that I’m going to run in the local Azure test harness. You need to make sure it’s running as Administrator, or you can’t launch the Azure Simulation Environment.

Visual Studio 2010 with Cloud Service in Administrator Mode

If I’ve done all that, I can hit F5 and get this:

Windows Azure Simulation Environment System Tray Icon

Shortly followed by the web application as if it were running in the cloud:

The Simple ASP.NET Application Running

In the video, Jason builds a quick application connecting some .NET entity classes to a SQL Azure instance and shows how quickly a simple web service can be deployed to the cloud.

You also get to see the developer tools for Visual Studio 2010 and Azure, including local simulations of the App Fabric and Dev Fabric infrastructure of Azure. In other words, you can test your Azure apps by running them on your local machine without needing to actually deploy them.

Instead of deploying an ASP.NET Web Application like I did above, Jason shows you the newly released Visual Studio Express and he walks through the steps to build a Silverlight mobile application to consume the service he just deployed on Azure.

The key takeaway here is just how easy it is to build and consume cloud services and applications across a broad spectrum of platforms. Follow this link for more information about Microsoft Azure, or give us a call a JFDI Phoenix in the UK.

Filed Under: Development, SaaS Tagged With: Cloud, Mirosoft Azure, Mobile, Videos, Visual Studio 2010

SharePoint 2010 Developer Courses and Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2010

July 22, 2010 by Joel Jeffery

Over the next few weeks I’m building the new SharePoint 2010 Developer Course for Firebrand Training. These are exciting times for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS 3.0) developers looking to acquire new skills.

The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform has really come of age. In my three recent video podcasts, I showed some of my favourite features in SharePoint 2010:

  • SharePoint 2010 Enabling Business Agility using Workflow
  • SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services and Offline Synchronisation
  • SharePoint 2010 Sandbox Solutions

But there’s so much more for the SharePoint Developer to enjoy!

  • Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Projects and Project Items
  • Client Object Model (for .NET, Sliverlight and JavaScript)
  • LINQ to SharePoint
  • Solution and Feature Lifecycle with the Versioning and Upgrade Framework
  • SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visio 2010 Integration
  • InfoPath 2010 Forms
  • Claims Based Security
  • SharePoint Powershell Integration
  • Lists and Libraries Enhancements
  • Branding Improvements
  • Enterprise Content Management Improvements, Taxonomies
  • Search Improvements
  • Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, PowerPivot for SharePoint
  • Access Services
  • Office Web Access
  • …More! More! More!

To round off my week as the Firebrand Blog guest blogger, I’ve made a high level video overview of some of the new Business Intelligence features in SharePoint 2010. A quick look at the Business Intelligence Center site definition, a look at Excel Web Access and the Excel Web Access Web Part, and finally a peek at the REST API for Excel Services.

 

Don’t forget you can find all my videos as podcasts on iTunes! Just search for “joelblogs tv” and you’ll find them.

Filed Under: SharePoint, Training Tagged With: Business Intelligence, Charting, Excel Services, Excel Web Access, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Videos, Training, Videos

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Joel is a full-stack cloud architect who codes. He is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server and Azure specialist and Microsoft Certified Trainer.
He has over 20 years' experience with SharePoint and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
He's also co-founder of Microsoft Gold Partner JFDI Consulting Ltd. Read More…

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