| Volume 13, Number 4: February 16, 2009 | | Top News | | The Azure Services Training Kit includes hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Azure Services Platform. The new release includes new demo scripts, new presentations, and three additional hands-on labs for Live Services. | Learn More about Windows Azure Faster with How Do I Videos |
| | From the Editor Greetings, With the unbelievable pressure on budgets today, you can't afford not to get familiar fast with cloud computing - and the Windows Azure platform takes a lot of the pain and risk out of moving your applications to the cloud. It's based on, and works with, familiar Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Studio 2008, so your existing skills already apply. It supports standards and protocols including SOAP, REST and XML, and welcomes third-party tools and languages such as Eclipse, Ruby, PHP, and Python. You can scale your applications as demand rises and falls, and focus more energy on the business logic rather than the operational side of your application. Microsoft is constantly updating its Windows Azure technical content. Make a beeline for the updated Azure Services Training Kit, and then stay current by bookmarking the Cloud Computing Tools blog. Save US$300 off MIX09 RegistrationRegister by February 27, 2009 to save US$300 off MIX09 registration. Tap into the trends and innovations of the next Web and get real answers from the experts. MIX speakers come from the top consumer Web sites and top Web agencies. MIX09 happens March 18 - 20, 2009 in Las Vegas. Thanks for reading,
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In this video, IDV Solutions shows how easy it is to leverage SharePoint lists and Excel spreadsheets in your own web-based applications and why your customers will appreciate this approach. | | | Help customers deliver cost-effective, reliable IT services using Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0. Getting trained on MOF is easy and straightforward. Download this brief article for an overview of Partner training options. | Case Studies | | Using Expression Blend and Expression Encoder with Visual Studio and Silverlight, VML established a unified work platform that eliminated time-consuming exchanges between designers and developers, and provided more time for a focus on quality. | Partner News | | LiveDocx is a template-based document creation platform for ASP.NET. Subscribe now to get 1 out or 1500 test accounts. | | | The MSDN Flash is full of pointers to in-depth technical information that we encourage subscribers to forward to friends and co-workers. If you've received this issue from someone via e-mail and would like to receive the free MSDN Flash newsletter biweekly, all you have to do is register. | | |  | ____________  | | Webcasts & Online Events All times Pacific Time | | National and Global Events  MIX09: Where Technology Intersects with Design March 18 - 20 Las Vegas, NV Pre-event workshops on March 17 Register by February 27 to save US$300 off MIX09 registration. MIX is pleased to announce headline keynoters Bill Buxton and Scott Guthrie speaking on their vision for the standards-based Web, next generation media, rich Internet applications and the collaboration between designers and developers. Speaking of innovation, the newest release from the MIX Online team is Project Descry, that which demonstrates the power of data and information visualization as a communication tool. As a part of Descry, we are releasing a set of open source, Web-based visualizations and an article that serves as a broad introduction to the topic. Tech·Ed North America 2009 May 11 - 15 Los Angeles, CA Browse our session catalog to find the topics that interest you, including Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Windows Azure and more. Register by February 27 and save US$200. Attend VSLive! in San Francisco February 22 - 26 San Francisco, CA Check out the independent Visual Studio .NET developer conference. DevConnectionsMarch 22 - 25 Orlando, FL At Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, Visual Studio & .NET Connections, SQL Server Connections, & SharePoint Conenctions, the first 500 attendees receive SQL Server 2008 Standard with 1 CAL. | | |
