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Azure Details and Limitations - Blobs, Tables, and Queues
The Dallas Azure User Group will be meeting tomorrow at the Microsoft offices in Irving for our second meeting. I'm teamed up with Mike Holdorf and Rob Vettor to discuss Azure storage, namely Blobs, Tables, and Queues. The listing below is the document that I put together to hand out at the meeting with the "Details and Limitations". This should help us in our application designs as we move some of our systems to the cloud. These details are from the current SDK help file.
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Azure Services Labs – Blobs, Queues, and Tables
Woohoo!!! The Azure Services Training Kit was updated this week. Well, maybe it's not that exciting because it means more work or "fun" training. It all depends on whether the sun is shining and I can ride the Goldwing. It's overcast and very windy so I'm "enjoying" the Azure Services Training Kit Labs. I walked through some of the labs this weekend, primarily the Blobs, Table, and Queue labs to better prepare for our Dallas Azure User Group talk on the 18th of this month. Mike Holdorf, Rob Vettor, and I are teaming up to present the topic of Azure Storage. It should be noted that the labs use the very useful SDK wrapper to abstract all of the REST complexities. So if you want to learn everything about Azure REST calls and how to handle retries and storage details, peek into the SDK example classes. In most cases, people just want to get the job done so these high level labs are very useful.
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Notion Tools for Team System
The company that I work for, Notion Solutions, has just announced a suite of extensions to Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. Here is an excerpt from the website:
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If I Ran Microsoft
I saw the "If I Ran Microsoft" video online today. It mentioned the public image for Microsoft and the great things that they do. The video showed the "We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend". It was a big deal for those charities that now have a great system to do their charity work with. I'm so glad that I had a part in it this year.