#Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 19th September 2011

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09/20/2011

	Local Overview [overseas this week so mini update!]
	Team Foundation Service Registration code for Asia-Pacific

	Readiness & Resources
Windows Azure:	White Paper Series Helps You Get a Start on Windows Azure Pricing How to Get Diagnostics Info for Azure/PHP Applications–Part 1 Windows Azure Diagnostics and PowerShell – Performance Counters Running the Windows Azure Tools & SDK on the Windows Developer Preview Windows Azure Blobs: Improved HTTP Headers for Resume on Download and a Change in If-Match Conditions
SQL Azure:	Sync Framework v4 is now Open Source, and ready to Connect any Device to SQL Server and SQL Azure Data Points - Using the Entity Framework to Reduce Network Latency to SQL Azure
AppFabric:	Comparison of Windows Azure Storage Queues and Service Bus Queues Service Bus Topics and Queues – Advanced Windows Azure Service Bus Queues, Topics / Subscriptions Using ACS in Metro Style Applications Subscriptions « Rock – Paper – Scissors – Cloud!
MarketPlace:	The Windows Azure Marketplace comes with 2 new major features: The marketplace will be open to 25 more countries starting next month The Microsoft Translator APIs is available on Marketplace and provides translation services for 35 languages
Watch:	Build Azure sessions: Building and running HPC apps in Windows Azure by Greg Burgess Analyzing "big data" with LINQ to HPC by Ade Miller Building Web APIs in Windows Azure with WCF to reach any device by Glenn Block Your devices + OData + Windows Azure == happiness by Mike Flasko Getting started with Windows Azure by Brian Prince What's new in Windows Azure by James Conard Introduction to Windows Azure: the cloud operating system by Mark Russinovich Identity and access management for Windows Azure apps by Vittorio Bertocci Monitoring and troubleshooting Windows Azure apps by Michael Washam Using cloud storage from Windows apps by Wade Wegner Building loosely-coupled apps with Windows Azure Service Bus Topics and Queues by Clemens Vasters Delivering notifications with the Windows Push Notification Service and Windows Azure by Darren Louie and Nick Harris Building apps with Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Azure by Jurgen Willis and Josh Twist Building device & cloud apps by Wade Wegner Building global and highly-available services using Windows Azure by David Aiken Building scalable web apps with Windows Azure by Matthew Kerner Building social games for Windows 8 with Windows Azure by Nathan Totten Building Windows 8 and Windows Azure apps by Steve Marx F# 3.0: data, services, Web, cloud, at your fingertips by Don Syme Inside Windows Azure storage: what's new and under the hood deep dive by Brad Calder Taking your Application Lifecycle Management to the cloud with the Team Foundation Service by Doug Neumann
Case Study:	East Hampton moves dispatch system with Total Computer Group's Total Enforcement 2 (TE2), to Windows Azure to cut costs
Tools:	Gigaspace’s Cloudify for Azure - take an existing [Java] application and seamlessly deploy and manage it in Windows Azure

	Guidance
Gotcha:	Back Up Your Dev Storage BEFORE Updating to Windows Azure SDK 1.5
Walkthrough:	How to Configure the Site Entry in the Service Definition File for Windows Azure

	In the news
General:	Preparing for the Hybrid Cloud Why DevOps matters to business
Microsoft:	Microsoft Build- Windows 8 preview a hit, but are investors unhappy
Windows Azure Platform:	Java on the Windows Azure Cloud What's new from Build? Windows Azure SDK 1.5 (build Windows 8 apps) Windows Azure AppFabric SDK 1.5 Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 Introducing Geo-replication for Windows Azure Storage The Windows Azure Service Bus September 2011 Release

Events

Local:

LIVE Meeting: Ten Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure

Sept 27th 2-4 pm

LIVE Meeting: An IT Pro View of Windows Azure

Oct 25th 2-4 pm

LIVE Meeting: Managing Windows Azure Applications

Nov 22nd 2-4 pm

Global:

Community

Social:

Join the Sydney Windows Azure User Group
Become a Facebook fan
Add yourself to my Azure Australia Twitter list
Keep up to date with our monthly CloudCast
Join the Mailing list for OzAzure
Get in touch with your local Microsoft Azure Team

Questions

With the OData implementation from the DataMarket how do you query across related tables?

In addition to URI conventions, you could use other querying mechanisms. For example you could use LINQ to query the data service that implements the Open Data Protocol (OData).

In OData there are no "joins" like in SQL server. Instead relationships are represented as "navigation" properties.

(more to follow)

#Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 19th September 2011

Gigaspace’s Cloudify for Azure - take an existing [Java] application and seamlessly deploy and manage it in Windows Azure

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