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Social Apps
Understand how to bring the Cloud to your social applications, with the potential to tap into millions of social application users.
When your Facebook app hits it big, how will it scale? Very nicely, thank you, if you build on Windows Azure and design with scaling out in mind. We step through the creation of a simple Facebook 'viral' marketing app on Azure, using the Windows Azure Toolkit and the Facebook C# SDK, both on CodePlex, to make the job a lot easier. ...more
Social Applications such as social broadcasting, sharing, and collaboration, and location-based services, and gaming have taken the online world by storm. ...more
IT Consultancy Saves up to 90 Percent on Relational Database Costs with Cloud Services ...more
Trials and Tools

Building a Windows Phone Client to a RESTful WCF Service

Learn how to use Azure tables and a web role for a simple RESTful WCF service that returns JSON and is easily consumable by a Windows Phone client.

Scott Guthrie Discusses Windows Azure

Scott Guthrie talks about what he's been focused on with Windows Azure. Scott talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly, and also shows code along the way.

Deploying the Cloud Ready Packages for Devices

Discover how easy it is to deploy this package to Windows Azure regardless of your operating system (e.g. Windows 7 or OSX) and target device (e.g. Windows Phone 7, iOS, or Android).

Tankster and the Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games

Steve and Wade talk about the newly released Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games. The toolkit enables unique capabilities for social gaming…

An Introduction to Service Bus Topics

Discover how to build flexible messaging solutions with the Service Bus Topics within Windows Azure AppFabric.

Develop Applications for Impact

Windows Azure means that your developers can deliver a new kind of value to your business. Scott Guthrie talks about how to kick the tires on Azure today.

SQL Azure At a Glance

This walkthrough takes a high-level look at the numerous benefits and usage scenarios of SQL Azure. The video highlights the many ways SQL Azure services can be used to create and share cloud powered applications.