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Microsoft Windows Azure takes over Amazon's cloud in performance test, read the full story here http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/021913-azure-aws-266831.html?hpg1=bn Info graphic on the result http://www.nasuni.com/blog/193-comparing_cloud_storage_providers_in

here are the recordings from our last event. Windows Azure Development in Visual Studio 2012 Modern App Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012   Async/Parallel Programming in .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012   Developing Windows 8 Store Applications using Visual Studio 2012

I uploaded the sessions recordings for our last event to YouTube, you can find the list here: http://www.devlifestyle.net/content/DevlifestyleJune2011EventRecordings.aspx

Here are recordings of some of the sessions delivered at Riyadh SharePoint Users Group (RSUG) Meeting (April 2010) Keynote (Cloud Computing): 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3e2MjEENrc 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E2IPp9_whw 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXhps6ws5pc 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po75XEEb4Jk 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKk49Tx080I SharePoint Large Lists 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIaPFMcgvMs 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QADN47DYauw 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocdOP_JUGx0 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kjBV0xl_IY 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFsJqWbHn5o 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl9VW2Pr5sg Windows Phone 7 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKuc0zLm6p0 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr3OrQpCopM 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9OD5K_yyNE 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGZ2OOEE2U 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8U7K05tigM JQuery with SharePoint 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNwp4ddfn4 2. http://www....

Yesterday was the opening for TechEd Dubai 2010, the first TechEd in the middle east, Eric Rudder was the keynote speaker, a major announcement made by Eric was that windows azure offering will be available for the middle east in the coming year, also Microsoft will have a datacenter in the middle east soon.

As i promised you before i will explain the Azure Reader application, a sample RSS reader based on the azure platform, in this post i will walk you through the application architecture and code. let’s start by describing our data model which is fairly simple, we have a table for storing the Feeds (ID and URL), and we have a table FeedsSubscriptions for storing the users’ subscriptions to the feeds, feeds items are stored in the FeedsItems table where we store the different properties of the feed item like title, URL, author, publish time, etc., the actual content and summary of the feed item is not stored in the database directly instead the content is stored in windows azure blob storage and is referenced in the table using the ContentBlobUri and SummaryBlobUri fields. the application has three roles, 1 web role and two worker roles - the azure reader web role: this is the asp.net application that allows the users to login, subscribe to feeds, and view the new items. I use win...

Microsoft will conduct a set of free trainings for Partners only, here is the agenda  Description Start Date End Date Total Days Registration Link Building Rich Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation 9 th Jan 2010 11 th Jan 2010 3 Click here to REGISTER Build Amazing Business Applications with Expression 3.0 and Silverlight 3.0 12 th Jan 2010 13 th Jan 2010 2 Click here to REGISTER Building .NET 3.51 Applications with Visual Studio 2008 16 th Jan 2010 17 th Jan 2010 2 ...

During the preparation for my session in GDC09, I developed Azure Reader, a cloud based RSS based on Windows Azure, I developed it as a sample application or demo for Windows Azure, Unfortunately i didn’t have time to demo this application, what i will do is that I’m going to post the code soon (after doing some cleanup) with some posts that explains the application so that it may help you in your future azure development endeavor :). you can access the application here http://azurereader.cloudapp.net/ It uses LiveID for authentication so you can immediately start using it if you have a LiveID account, please note that your feeds subscriptions may be deleted at any time cause i frequently update the application

Tomorrow at 9:00 AM Microsoft Gulf Developers Conference ( GDC’09 ) will start , i will deliver a Chalk Talk session tomorrow at 04:15 PM, in this  session me and Mohamed Halabi will discuss Cloud Computing and the Azure Platform, If you need any advice, help or support regarding any Microsoft technology or if you feel you like to chat or even have fun (yeeh real fun), please drop us a visit at the Community Lounge located inside Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC), at the Community Lounge you will find many experts from the local communities and other speakers hanging out. hope to see you all there.

As you may know Windows Azure will go live starting from January 2010 and the billing will start from February, MSDN Subscribers can find information about the available azure benefits granted for them in this post http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx Now all i need is just a MSDN Subscription :)

I spent around 1 hour trying to resolve an error that i received while trying to query a table in Windows Azure Tables, the query was something like this this .Users.Where( s=> s.UserID==userID).ToArray(); the error i received System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceQueryException was unhandled by user code Message= "An error occurred while processing this request." InnerException: System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceClientException Message= "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\r\n <error xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata\">\r\n <code>InvalidInput</code>\r\n <message xml:lang=\"en-US\">One of the request inputs is not valid.</message>\r\n </error>" after some research i found the following in the Azure SDK Characters Disallowed in Key Fields The following characters are not allowed in values for the Partiti...