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
4/25/2012 6:00 PM
Speaker: Chris Schipper
Topic: Google Apps: Fun With .Net
Description:
We all keep hearing about Azure, Office 365 and Cloud cloud cloud... Come see a few wonders of .Net attached to the evil enemy of Google Apps. We will see what's required to access Google Apps, use shared worksheets as a real-time visitor database for a MVC3 site, display aggregate data on that same site as a visitor counter and write a small utility to clean your Google contact's phone numbers (very handy if you use Google Apps.)
Speaker Profile:
Chris is a Microsoft .Net Software Systems Architect, with over 15 years of direct hands-on experience leading development projects, teams and coding complex/real-time software. Well versed in applying cutting-edge technologies, methodologies and industry standard best practices in building and supporting multi-continent, multi-client software infrastructures and secured e-commerce.
