Azure Tutorials & Articles
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The Evolution of a Azure Web Application
by Michael CollierWindows Azure Web Sites and Windows Azure Virtual Machine - learn what it means for you
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Protecting your ASP.NET Web API using OAuth2 and the Windows Azure Access Control Service
by Maarten BalliauwThe world in which we live evolves at a vast speed. Today, many applications on the Internet expose an API which can be consumed by everyone using a web browser or a mobile application on their smartphone or tablet. How would you build your API if you want these apps to be a full-fledged front-end to your service without compromising security? Maarten explains how.
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Deploying An Azure Application
by John MannixFollowing on from our look at the four main pieces of Windows Azure in “Introduction to Windows Azure”, John Mannix runs us through the development of an Azure application in C# and its deployment into the cloud.
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To The Cloud: Moving Red Gate Tools to SQL Azure
by Roger HartRoger Hart looks back at Red Gate's inclusion of SQL Azure into its database applications, the issues they encountered and the solutions they created
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Integrating Active Directory Into Azure
by Steve PlankThe most common giveaway a user experiences when an enterprise application has been moved to the cloud is the sudden appearance of a username/password dialogue box.
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Advanced scenarios with Windows Azure Queues
by Maarten BalliauwQueues can be an incredibly scalable component in any application architecture - we take a look at state machines and back-off polling
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Using the Queuing Service in Windows Azure
by Brian PrinceWe introduce one of the simplest services in Azure to get to grips with - the message queue service
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How to migrate your ASP.NET site to the Azure cloud
by Richard ParkerMany developers might not realise just how straightfoward it is to migrate an ASP.NET website from a hosted server into the Azure cloud. We show you how.
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Introduction to Windows Azure - What you should know
by Neil MackenzieNeil Mackenzie looks at where Windows Azure fits among the various cloud computing offerings in the wild today, and also at the four key areas of Azure that new developers will need to be aware of when they start their first project.
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The future is Azured?
by Harry FairheadAzure is Microsoft's new programming paradigm, and Harry Fairhead investigates how much cloud there is in cloud computing.