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Free “State of .NET” Events!

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Two Locations – Houston & Dallas Dallas:   Tuesday, May 24, 2011  1:30 – 4:30 PM Microsoft Dallas Office -  7000 SR-161 (George Bush Turnpike), Irving, TX 75039 Houston: Thursday, May 26, 2011  1:30 – 4:30 PM Microsoft Houston Office – 2000 W Sam Houston Parkway S, Houston, TX 77042 Brought to you by Microsoft, CODE [...]

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Office 365 Beta Released

Posted on April 18, 2011 by

      The Office 365 Beta is now open to the public!  Office 365 provides a cloud-based subscription service that includes Office 2010 Professional Plus, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online.  Office 365 also provides developers and ISVs a platform for building cloud-based collaboration and communication solutions for the cloud.  To help developers [...]

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Get in the cloud for free!

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform, and a lot of developers are excited to try it out. To help you try it out, we have started a program called “Windows Azure Pass.” You can register a Live ID for a Pass and receive 30 days of free cloud computing. Just enough time to dip your [...]

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WP7 Toolkit for Windows Azure now available

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

This toolkit is designed to make it easier for phone developers to leverage cloud services running in Windows Azure.  The toolkit includes Visual Studio project templates for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure, class libraries optimized for use on the phone, sample applications, and documentation. Get the bits on CodePlex here: http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com/ The toolkit contains [...]

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Windows Azure Capacity Assessment

Posted on February 2, 2011 by

My teammate Hanu Kommalapati has put together a really nice summary of things to think about related to capacity planning for hosting your applications in Windows Azure.  Among the topics he covers in his article are Bandwidth CPU Memory Storage Concurrency It’s a short, but valuable read for anyone working with Windows Azure or planning [...]

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MIX11 BootCamps

Posted on January 24, 2011 by

This year at MIX11 the team is hosting a series of BootCamp events to help jumpstart and supercharge your development skillz. For a mere $350, you can get in-depth knowledge about some of the latest technologies from some of the smartest folks on the planet.  Here’s the schedule for Monday, April 11: HTML5/CSS3 Boot Camp [...]

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Windows Azure Bootcamps

Posted on December 1, 2010 by

Windows Azure Boot Camp is a two day deep dive class to get you up to speed on developing for Windows Azure. The class includes a trainer with deep, real world experience with Azure, as well as a series of labs so you can practice what you just learned. Agenda Intro to Cloud Computing and [...]

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Dallas Day of .NET

Posted on November 29, 2010 by

I’m pleased to share with all of you an exciting announcement around a new (hopefully) annual technical event here in Dallas.  On March 4 & 5, 2011, Dallas will host the first ever Dallas Day of Dot Net!  DDDN is a 2-day conference featuring the top local technical talent as well as a special guest [...]

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Great news for MSDN Subscribers

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

I just learned about two cool announcements coming from our friends at MSDN related to availability of Office for Mac 2011 and Windows Azure:   Office for Mac 2011 Home and Business Inclusion in MSDN Office for Mac 2011 Home and Business, and Communicator for Mac 2011 will be included in all MSDN Premium and [...]

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Windows Phone 7 and Azure, Better Together

Posted on September 1, 2010 by

The next Cloud Computing User Group Meeting for Dallas will be on Thursday, September 2nd from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at Microsoft (Las Colinas Office, Building LC1). The presentation will be done by Derek Martin and Trent Foley and will cover Windows Phone 7 and Azure. September 2nd, 2010 6:00pm – 8:00pm Microsoft Corporation 7000 SR-161 [...]

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