US DPE Azure Connection

We are Technology Evangelists from Microsoft's US Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) team focused on Windows Azure and cloud computing. US DPE Azure Connection is where you can keep up with all of our cloud-related blog posts. You can also find

Materials from VS Ultimate Tour

Zain Naboulsi and I continue to travel around the region delivering our Ultimate Guide to Visual...

Author: Clint Edmonson Date: 10/20/2011

Geo-Load Balancing with the Azure Traffic Manager

One of the great new features of the Windows Azure platform is the Azure Traffic Manager, a geo load...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 10/10/2011

CodeMastery This Weekend in Atlanta

Chris Williams just let me know about an event happening in Atlanta this Saturday, Oct 8 … and it’s...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 10/05/2011

Use the Windows Azure CDN for Assets

The most common response to running stuff in the cloud (Azure, Amazon in particular) is the that...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 09/26/2011

Azure BootCamp - November 5 2011 - Tampa

From DevFish (Joe Healy) down in Florida... What is a Windows Azure Boot Camp?Windows Azure Boot...

Author: Peter Laudati Date: 09/21/2011

Azure and Phone … Better Together

We had an excellent time presenting today’s Windows Phone Camp in Charlotte. Thank you to everyone...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 09/21/2011

Windows PhoneCamps

From MSDN events, to roadshows, to firestarters … Now on to Camps … and just got word about the...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 09/01/2011

Slides from my St. Louis Day of .NET 2011 sessions

I want to send out a BIG thanks to everyone who attended my sessions this past weekend. You made...

Author: Clint Edmonson Date: 08/08/2011

Windows Azure Tech Jam Spring 2011 Series – Content & Links

Thanks to everyone who attended the Spring 2011 Series of Windows Azure Tech Jam events! The US...

Author: Peter Laudati Date: 07/15/2011

RPA Grand Tournament Complete!

We had a GREAT time running the RockPaperAzure Grand Tournament Wednesday.  We had a total of...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 07/14/2011

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Resource Guide

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create high-quality...

Author: Clint Edmonson Date: 07/12/2011

Top Reasons for Bot Rejection

Just a quick tip for those in the Grand Tournament.  There are 2 very common reasons we’re...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 07/07/2011

Windows Phone Garage Events

By way of Glen Gordon:  Two great community guys – Chris Eargle and Chris Williams - are...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 06/09/2011

Wifi on the Road

I spend a lot of time on the road and often need to stay online.  Back in the Windows Mobile...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 05/30/2011

Azure Tech Jam

You’ve heard about cloud computing and already know it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread – and...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 05/18/2011

Top Failed Bots

During a presentation the other day to the Charlotte ALT.NET group,  I made a joke that Rock,...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 05/04/2011

Rock, Paper, Azure Deep Dive: Part 2

In part 1, I detailed some of the specifics in getting the Rock, Paper, Azure (RPA) up and running...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 05/02/2011

Windows Phone 7 Garage Event Coming!

In a few weeks, my colleagues Glen and Joe will be in Charlotte (and a few other locations around...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 04/29/2011

RPA: Burned by Static Cling

In a previous post about locking in Rock, Paper, Azure, I said this somewhat offhand: In this case,...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 04/18/2011

RPA Game History Available

You spoke, we listened.   Rock, Paper, Azure is going well, but one thing we’ve heard from...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 04/18/2011

RPA Winners, Losers, and Eligibility

Over the past few weeks, we (the dev team of Rock, Paper, Azure) have gotten to be best friends with...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 04/14/2011

Can’t Lock() in RPA

For security and performance reasons, we often review what bots are doing and review any rejected...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 04/12/2011

Testing a RockPaperAzure Bot in a Winform

In Friday’s webcast, I showed a quick ‘n dirty utility for testing a RockPaperAzure bot...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 04/11/2011

Rock, Paper, Azure Tournament Information

We had a couple of great questions on RPA tournaments over the first week – I thought...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 04/11/2011

Getting a Windows Azure account for Rock, Paper, Azure

If you’re interested in getting a Windows Azure account to play in Rock, Paper, Azure (RPA), there...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 04/06/2011

We’re Ready to Rock…

… but there are some changes to Rock, Paper, Azure we need to discuss based on our test...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 04/04/2011

RPA: Why is my Bot Rejected?

We’ve had a few people ask about getting the following message when submitting bots: Bot contains...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 04/01/2011

Rock, Paper, Azure Deep Dive: Part 1

If you’re not sure what Rock, Paper, Azure (RPA) is all about, check out the website or look over...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 03/30/2011

RockPaperAzure Coding Challenge

I’m pleased to announce that we’re finally launching our Rock, Paper, Azure Challenge! For the past...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 03/29/2011

Creating a Quick Progress Visual like UpdateProgress

On Thursday, we’re going to go live with our RockPaperAzure coding challenge – and it’s time to...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 03/29/2011

Storing Data in Azure: SQL, Tables, or Blobs?

While building the back end to host our “Rock, Paper, Scissors in the cloud” game, we faced a...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 03/28/2011

Getting Ready to Rock (Paper and Scissors)

We’re gearing up for something that I think will be truly exciting – but I’m getting ahead of...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 03/16/2011

Returning to Chess

Many years ago, I was a reasonably active person in computer chess and OTB (over-the-board) chess...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 02/14/2011

Acer 1420P (PDC Laptop) Service Manual

There aren’t too many Acer 1420P netbooks out there – this is the one given out at PDC...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 01/31/2011

New Worldmaps Reporting Site

Thanks to the folks at Infragistics, there’s a new reporting site for Worldmaps!   This...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 01/10/2011

Connected Show: Migrating To Azure

I recently sat down with Peter Laudati, my cloud colleague up in the NY/NJ area, and discussed...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 01/07/2011

Folding@home SMP Client

Wouldn’t you know it!  As soon as we get admin rights in Azure in the form of Startup Tasks and...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 12/13/2010

Azure Firestarter Fall 2010 Series - Content & Links

Thanks to everyone who attended the Fall 2010 Series of Windows Azure Firestarter events!  From...

Author: Peter Laudati Date: 12/10/2010

Windows Phone 7 App Sales

I wanted to make my app experience as open as possible, so now that reporting for Windows Phone 7...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 12/10/2010

You Know You’re a Geek When…

Over the long weekend I decided to start cleaning out the garage – a project, by my estimates, will...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 11/28/2010

Distributed Cache in Azure: Part III

It has been awhile since my last post on this … but here is the completed project – just in time for...

Author: Brian T. Hitney Date: 11/24/2010

Windows Phone Emulator and Fiddler

On an internal alias, Eric Lawrence chimed in on setting up Fiddler for the Windows Phone 7...

Author: Anonymous Date: 10/17/2010

Distributed Cache in Azure: Part II

In my last post, I talked about creating a simple distributed cache in Azure.   In...

Author: Anonymous Date: 09/30/2010

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