Upcoming Events
5/29/2012 6:00 PM
Speaker: Robin Shahan
Topic: Azure for Developers
Description:
In this talk, Robin will show the different bits of Windows Azure and how to code them, and explain why you would use each bit, sharing her experience migrating her
company's infrastructure to Azure.
This talk will show the following:
* SQL Azure - migrate a database from the local SQLServer to a SQLAzure instance.
* Create a Web Role with a WCF service, including diagnostics. The WCF service will read and write to/from the SQL Azure database, including exponential retries.
* Change a client app to consume the service, show how to add a service reference and then call the service.
* Add a method to the service to submit an entry to queue.
* Add a worker role to process the entries in the queue.
* Write the entries in the queue to Blob storage.
* Publish the service to the cloud and test it.
* Change the client to run against the service in the cloud and show it work. Show the diagnostics using the tools from Cerebrata.
* Change the service to read/write the data to Azure Table Storage instead of SQL Azure.
Speaker Profile:
Robin Shahan is a Microsoft MVP with over 25 years of experience developing complex, business-critical applications for Fortune 100 companies such as Chevron and AT&T. She is currently the Director of Engineering for GoldMail, where she recently migrated their entire infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. Robin regularly speaks at various .NET User Groups and Code Camps on Microsoft Azure and her company's migration experience. She can be found on twitter as @RobinDotNet and you can read exciting and riveting articles about ClickOnce deployment and Microsoft Azure on her blog at http://robindotnet.wordpress.com
3/28/2012 6:00 PM
Speaker: Doug Holland
Topic: TBD
Description:
TDB
Speaker Profile:
A "blue-badge" Architect Evangelist, Doug Holland is part of the Developer & Platform Evangelism team at Microsoft in Northern California and is presently working within an innovation team to assist customers in adopting new and emerging technologies.
Doug Holland holds a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from Oxford University and has been awarded both the Microsoft MVP and Intel Black Belt Developer awards. Outside of work, Doug enjoys spending time with his wife and four children; and is also an officer in the Civil Air Patrol / U.S. Air Force Auxiliary.
