I just wanted to make you aware of the meetings planned for the Twin Cities Cloud Computing User Group for the next 4 months. These are some great topics and speakers that you’re not going to want to miss.
April 8, 2010
Dynamics CRM Online
Presented by Shikhar Agarwal, Sogeti
Register here
May 13, 2010
Custom Applications and SharePoint Online
Presented by Frank Shink, Magenic
Register here
June 10, 2010
SQL Azure
Presented by Mike Benkovich, Microsoft
Register here
July 8, 2010
Azure Storage
Presented by Brent Stineman, Sogeti
Register here
Hope to see you there!
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There were a couple of Microsoft releases last week that provided updates to Windows Azure tooling that I wanted to make you aware of in case you hadn’t see the news.
First Microsoft released the November CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2. This is an important release on the SQL Azure front because SSMS now supports SQL Azure. There are a number of limitations (i.e. no designer support), but it’s a step in the right direction of making easier to work with SQL Azure.
You can download the CTP here.
Brent Ozar has a great overview of SQL Azure and SSMS support here.
Second the Cloud Computing Tools Team released Windows Azure Tools and SDK v1.0 last Friday. Highlights include:
- Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
- Better interface for handling role configuration
- New role templates including: ASP.NET MVC 2 (2010 only), F# worker roles (2010 only), WCF Service Application web roles
- Dynamic table creation support
You can download the tools here.
You can download code samples here.
You can read more about the tools on the team’s blog here or on MSDN here.
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