Learning Windows Azure through Hands On Labs Online (HOLO)

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Sign up for our Hands-on Lab Online (HOLO) event today.

1. Hands-on Lab Online: Introduction to Cloud Services

2. Hands-on Lab Online: Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database

 

What is a HOLO event? It’s an online event where you listen to a live presentation and work on lab exercises. As you work on your labs, Microsoft experts can assist and provide guidance by chatting with you one-on-one or by virtually taking control of your lab.

Introduction to Cloud Services

Windows Azure is an open cloud platform that enables developers to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

With Windows Azure, developers can create applications using any language, tool or framework.
In this Hands-On Lab, you will learn how to:

  • Create applications in Windows Azure using web roles and worker roles
  • Use Storage services including blobs, queues and tables
  • Publish an application to Windows Azure Cloud Services

Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database

Windows Azure is an open cloud platform that enables developers to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

With Windows Azure, developers can create applications using any language, tool or framework.
In this Hands-On Lab, you will learn how to:

  • Use SQL Database as a cloud hosted database platform for your application
  • Provision a new SQL Database server and create new databases
  • Create new SQL Database users and grant them appropriate permissions
  • Use SQL Database to execute statements to create tables and indexes and to insert query rows
  • Build a simple date driven ASP.NET page using the graphical controls in Visual Studio
  • Connect to SQL Database via Client Libraries