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LightSwitch On The Cloud!
Jun 20th
Namaste! Last week, on 11th June, we had a grand event Tech.Ed On The Road 2011 at Ahmedabad by Microsoft and AhmedabadUserGroup. It was a grand event in real sense because we got record break attendees (500+). For any event to be successful; audience is the most important factor and Ahmedabad is lucky to have
Larger SQL Azure Database Size and a New SQL Azure Offer
Jun 16th
Namaste! I received an email from Microsoft Windows Azure Platform team this early morning about the following updates. So here are some excerpts from that annoucement. Larger SQL Azure Database Size Starting from June 28, 2010, Microsoft will be increasing the size limit of a SQL Azure Business Edition database from 10 GB to 50
Get ready with .Net 4.0 and VS 2010 for Windows Azure Development
Jun 9th
Namaste! Some time back I blogged about Microsoft .Net 4.0 Support in Windows Azure Platform. So a further step by Microsoft is supporting .Net Framework 4.0 as target framework when building Windows Azure Cloud Services. Those who have ever worked on Windows Azure development using Visual Studio 2010, knows that you need to select
Windows Azure and Cloud Computing sessions at Microsoft Tech.Ed 2010
Apr 12th
Namaste! I wanted to brief about Windows Azure and related sessions at Microsoft Tech.Ed 2010 for interested attendees, so here is a summary: Day 1: Building the Foundation for a Cloud Computing Infrastructure with Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit Timing: 11:15am-12:15pm Speaker: Tejas Shah Building Clouds – An Architect’s Perspective Timing: 11:15am-12:15pm Speaker: Ramnish Singh Cloud Patterns
Microsoft .Net 4.0 Support in Windows Azure Platform
Apr 12th
Namaste! A lot of interest I see in Microsoft .Net community about .Net 4.0 Support in Windows Azure Platform. Here is wink information about the same. Microsoft has announced Windows Azure Guest OS v1.2 this march (Release 2010003-01). Please refer: How to change Operating System Version. The actual release date set for this is 5th
Step by Step Guide to Upgrade your Windows Azure Platform CTP Account
Jan 30th
Namaste! As you know, only 2 days left for you to upgrade your CTP accounts to paid else they will be disabled after January 31, 2010. So, here is the step by step guide to do it now. [Please click on image to see them in actual size.] Go to https://windows.azure.com Login using Windows
Windows Azure Pricing and Offerings
Dec 7th
Namaste! I am going to talk on Windows Azure Platform Pricing and Offerings. I have gone through Windows Azure pricing information and found interesting information while going through various offers available for Microsoft Windows Azure. So I have compiled it and trying to provide single point of information on Windows Azure Platform Pricing and Offerings.
Introduction
Dec 7th
Namaste! This is my first blog post so I think I should introduce my self and set the expectations from this blog first. My name is Mahesh Devjibhai Dhola (as blog title says ). I am having over 10 years of extensive experience in Software/IT industry. I have started my career working on Java/J2EE platform