WPF Binding CheatSheet version 1.1

WPF Binding CheatSheet version 1.1 download here @ http://www.nbdtech.com/Free/WpfBinding.pdf

(via) Rakesh’s tweets

I was there @ David’s Azure World Tour 2009, Blr

Yes I made it finally after a long gap myself attending MS event in Bangalore. It was a great learning to be part of "David" session on Azure world tour. Session 1: Win Azure platform :  A perspective by David Chappell Session 2: Using Win Azure platform : Scenarios by David Chappell He is a cloud computing rock star and great speaker who knows in and out of Cloud computing at the moment.

The comparison was amazing and he did his part without biased on MS. He talked about offerings of Amazon, Google, Salesforce, MS etc in a simple and understandable way with neat slides. Few things which I’ve scribbled and would like to share.   + W.Azure – Provides a Win-based environment for running applications and storing data on servers in Microsoft data centers. ( platform as service, as of now no VNC like Amazon). It’s a platform for running Windows applications and storing their data in the cloud.  Web Roles and Worker Roles and how-to use them. 3 types – Blobs, Queues, Tables. Worker role instance isn’t allowed to have any incoming network connections. It receives its input only from a Web role instance. Instances communicate via the Windows Azure Fabric or the Windows Azure Storage. Web role instances communicate via HTTP with external entities, like a Web browser, for instance. Just a Web server running on multiple machines, upload your sln and config files, rest it will do the scaling etc.   + Microsoft .NET Services – Offers distributed infrastructure services to cloud-based and local applications. ( Naming is bit confusing one, but the same regular stuff )   + MS SQL Services – Provides data services in the cloud based on SQL Server.   Sesson 3 & 4: Windows Azure : Serendipity, product demo  by Sudhir Mody, IndigoArchitects.com He gave a neat description about Azure real time implementation and hands on code, deployment etc. He has already spoke about this in Teched 2009, Here is those slides for ref. http://www.slideshare.net/rsnarayanan/web-20-futures Few links to read further : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2A8E06D9-188D-4EC8-BA2D-D3DEB96FC06D&displaylang=en www.azure.com, http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/4/3/e43bb484-3b52-4fa8-a9f9-ec60a32954bc/Azure_Services_Platform.docx www.davidchappell.com As a free handout, MS provided VPC image in a DVD to practice Azure programming, I’ve got an extra DVD with me, ping me if you want one. The virtual machine contains the following software pre-installed and configured,            Windows 7 Release candidate, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition SP1            Visual C# 2008 Express Edition SP1, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition SP1 (Instance Name .\SQLExpress)            Windows Azure SDK v1.0, Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2008 1.0 Note: Unfortunately the VPC is not getting booted in my desktop for some reason, still trying to fix but no use. Will check in Laptop and see…by the way..just dropped a mail to Rajinish Menon, MS regarding this. Let me know if anyone faces the same issue with that VPC copy provided.

Disk2vhd v1.0 – Oct 7, 2009 ( VHD creater )

+ Utility creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). + Has user interface lists the volumes present on the system + Helps to create VHD which we can easily attach under VPC for the host OS.

Windows Azure- Instructor led training on 28’th October

Invitations to the 3 hour virtual ILT on 28’th october- 10.00 AM – 1.00 PM – http://www.qsitglobal.com/qsitmailers/october_2009/azure/azure_form.htm#fillform

via – http://blogs.msdn.com/ramaprasanna/archive/2009/10/16/windows-azure-instructor-led-training-on-28th-october.aspx