Azure and Silverlight Deep-Diving

Getting Started with Silverlight
‘Getting Started with Silverlight’ is a series of 11 videos and hands-on materials that introduces the concepts, skills, and applications customers need when building their first Silverlight application. [link...]

Great Windows Live Videocasts and Information:
Check it out on the Live Services Blog at https://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/

Want to deep-dive into the Windows Azure Services Platform?
I have been involved in a course over the last several weeks and this is a mere fraction of the reading material we have covered. (Believe me, it is just a small fraction too…) At any rate, this is all publically available stuff, and there’s quite a lot of videos / screen casts you could leverage as well, but here’s a abridged reading material syllabus:

ü Read the white paper by David Chappell
https://download.microsoft.com/download/e/4/3/e43bb484-3b52-4fa8-a9f9-ec60a32954bc/Azure_Services_Platform.pdf

 

ü Read MSDN Magazine “An Introduction to RESTful Services with WCF” by Jon Flanders
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.01.servicestation.aspx

ü Read “Getting Started with the Windows Azure SDK”
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179419.aspx

 

ü Read the white paper on Azure Table Storage
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=131257

 

ü Read the white paper on Azure Blob Storage
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=131258

 

ü Read the white paper on Azure Queue Storage

        https://download.microsoft.com/download/5/2/D/52D36345-BB08-4518-A024-0AA24D47BD12/Windows%20Azure%20Queue%20-%20Dec%202008.docx

 

ü Read “Understanding Service Architecture”
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179341.aspx

 

ü Perform the steps in Jim Nakashima’s walkthrough “Quick Lap Around the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio”
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203059.aspx

 

ü Read “Introducing Geneva” by David Chappell
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ca5c685-3172-4d8f-81cb-1a59bdc9f7e3&displaylang=en

 

ü Read “Introduction to Windows Live ID”
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb288408.aspx

 

ü Read “Microsoft Federation Gateway”
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287610.aspx

 

ü Read “Understanding Windows Live Delegated Authentication”
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287613.aspx

 

ü Read “Introducing Live Mesh” by Amit Mital
https://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/04/22/279.aspx

 

ü Read the Live Framework White Paper
https://dev.live.com/liveframework/livefxwhatwhy.pdf

 

ü Read MSDN Magazine “Building Distributed Applications With .NET Services” by Aaron Skonnard
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd569759.aspx

 

ü Read “.NET Service Bus Overview”
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd129877.aspx

Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2
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