The Unauthorised Autobiography of Marc Holmes

Microsoftie thinking about dialogue with developers. Brit in Seattle. Windswept and Interesting.

Filed under: Windows Azure

Silverlight RIAs in the Cloud with Windows Azure and SQL Azure

Brad Abrams continues his 23-part series (thus far - seriously, start here) on building Silverlight RIAs.

In this particular part he uses Windows Azure to host the web tier, and SQL Azure to host the date tier.

It's a great series in general, but in particular this part is a nice guide to general use of both those flavours of Azure.

SQL Azure CTP Available

You can register for the latest CTP of Microsoft SQL Azure (the new name for SQL Data Services or whatever we were calling it) from MSDN. According to the site, there may be "a bit of delay" on token distribution owing to the high demand. So probably best to throw your hat in the ring sooner rather than later if you're hankering for some cloud DB action.