Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games

You can download the source code here.

The Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games allows you to quickly get started building new social games in Windows Azure. The social gaming market continues to grow and become more profitable, and eMarketer predicts it will increase to $1.32 billion in revenues by 2012 (up from $856 million in 2010). To help you quickly tap into this market, the toolkit includes accelerators, libraries, developer tools, and samples that you can use in your own .NET or HTML5 game. The toolkit also enables unique capabilities for social gaming prerequisites, such as storing user profiles, maintaining leader boards, in-app purchasing and so forth.

Developer Resources:

Windows Azure SDK Download: https://bit.ly/zxazuresdk

Free Windows Azure Platform Trial Account: https://bit.ly/zxazuretrial

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit https://bit.ly/zxazuretraining

Windows Phone SDK Download: https://bit.ly/zxphonesdk

WebMatrix Download: https://bit.ly/zxwebmatrix