Windows Azure Cloud Services offers a great way to logically separate your applications and scale the components up and out independently and easily. In this session you will get a complete overview of Cloud Services and a clear understanding of Web Roles and Worker Roles. Furthermore you’ll see how Visual Studio 2012 and the Windows Azure SDK makes it easy to develop and test your cloud services locally.

Part of the Developer Movement .NET Camp

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Contents

• Introduction
• Azure Ecosystem
• Cloud Services Overview
• Why a Cloud Service?
• What is a Cloud Service? Web and Worker Roles
• What can it run? Languages and Frameworks
• Web Roles
• Worker Roles
• Role Lifecycle
• Roles and Instances
• Fault Domains
• Upgrade Domains
• Hello World Demo
• Packaging and Configuration
• Deployment
• Application Upgrade Strategies
• Service Management Demo
• Cloud Development Lifecycle
• Team Foundation Service integration
• TFS Online and Azure Demo
• Diagnostics Demo
• Closing

Windows Azure Web Sites is a simple, yet powerful platform for web applications in the cloud. In this session you will see how you can build and deploy everything from WordPress blogs to high scale web applications using your favorite languages, frameworks and tools.

Part of the Developer Movement Web Camp

Channel9 Page

Contents

• Comparing Azure Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, and Websites
• Websites – start simple, code smart, go live
• Hello World Demo
• Modern Apps Demo – deploying from git and using the cross-platform command line interface
• Diagnostics and Scale Demo
• Shared Instances
• Reserved Instances
• Website Gallery and WordPress Demo
• Supported Frameworks – ASP, .NET, PHP, and Node.js
• Publishing Methods – FTP, TFS, WebDeploy, and git
• Partners
• Recap
• Closing

No this post is not about the holidays. It is about speaking events.

My blog is a bit sparse these days, mainly because I have been involved in so many events in October-November and that steady stream is not slowing down in December.

VS 2012 Launch Event @ Winnipeg IMAX – December 6

Register Here (eventbrite.ca)

Event Details

• When: Thursday, Decemer 6th from 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• Where: IMAX Theatre, Portage Place
• Cost: *FREE!*

Agenda

8:00 – 9:00	Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome
9:15 – 10:30	End-To-End Application Lifecycle Management with TFS 2012
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45 – 12:00	Improving Developer Productivity with Visual Studio 2012
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch Break (Lunch Not Provided)
1:00 – 2:15	Web Development in Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5
2:15 – 2:30	Break
2:30 – 3:45	Microsoft Cloud Development with Azure and Visual Studio 2012
3:45 – 4:00	Prizes and Thanks

Here is the abstract for my talk at 2:30

Microsoft Cloud Development with Azure and Visual Studio 2012
Tyler Doerksen, Imaginet

Microsoft’s public cloud platform is nearing its third year of public availability, supporting web site/service hosting, storage, relational databases, virtual machines, virtual networks and much more. Windows Azure provides both power and flexibility. But to capture this power you need to have the right tools! This session will demonstrate the primary ways you can harness Windows Azure with the .NET platform. We’ll explain cloud service development, packaging, deployment, testing and show how Visual Studio 2012 with the Windows Azure SDK and other Microsoft tools can be used to develop for and manage Windows Azure.Harness the power of the cloud from the comfort of Visual Studio 2012

Also don’t forget…

Vancouver Web Camp – Online – December 4

Register Online Here

I will be taking questions in the chat online.

Be sure to attend these great events this week! And stay tuned for more coming up in the new year!

Thanks for reading