Windows Azure Platform

Videos

• “What is Azure?” whiteboard videos
  • Windows Azure Platform (bit.ly/WhiteBoardVideo)
  • Windows Azure(bit.ly/WindowsAzureWhiteboardVideo)
  • SQL Azure (bit.ly/SQLAzureWhiteboardVideo)
  • Service Bus & Access Control  (bit.ly/ServiceBusWhiteboardVideo)

Training Kit

• (Revamped for PDC) Windows Azure Training kit – http://bit.ly/AzureTrainingKit

Online Resources

• MSDN Azure Platform Developer Center (new and improved)
• Channel 9 Training Center

Windows Azure

• Check out Ryan Dunn’s table service for a management UI for Azure tables: https://www.myazurestorage.com
  • Read more about what it does: http://dunnry.com/blog/LaunchingMyAzureStoragecom.aspx
• Bill Zack has an informative posting on Azure Blob Caching

SQL Azure

Online Resources

• MSDN Developer site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dataservices/default.aspx
  • Technical content & latest news of SQL Azure for msdn subscribers
• SQL Azure Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/SQL Azure/
  • Latest news and insight on SQL Azure, discussion, free trial 

Windows Identity Foundation (formerly Geneva)

Training Kit

• Go to Vittorio Bertocci’s informative blog posting Windows Identify Foundation Training kit – http://bit.ly/WIFinfo

-- from the INETA NorAm December 2009 Newsletter