Welcome to patterns & practices Windows Azure Guidance site
Many customers are looking for guidance on how to make the move to Windows Azure, and how to make the most of it. patterns & practices has a series of projects that target application design and development on Windows Azure.
The key themes for these projects are:
1. Moving to the Cloud
2. Developing for the Cloud
3. Integrating with the Cloud
These themes will allow us to categorize the scenarios that we will be delivering. Most of the scenarios are challenges that customers face today. And as we progress the program forward we will have more scenarios.
#1 is about migration and re-purposing existing applications and skills. #2 is about taking advantages of intrinsic properties from the cloud, such as elastic demand, etc., #3 is about connecting cloud applications with on-premises systems.
Part 1 of the Guide (brownfield scenarios)
Download samples, browse the content
here.
The newly updated WAAG - Part 1 Samples and Hands-on-Labs supports Windows Azure SDK 1.4 and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 - August 2011.
Part 2 of the Guide (greenfield scenarios)
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here
The newly updated WAAG - Part 2 Samples and Hands-on-Labs supports Windows Azure SDK 1.4 and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 - August 2011.
Part 3 of the Guide (hybrid scenarios: integrating on-premises app with the cloud)
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here
Lessons learned in Testing Part 3 of the Guide
Enterprise Library 5 - Beta 2 on Windows Azure white paper
This document explains the capabilities and limitations of
Enterprise Library 5.0 in terms of use within .NET applications designed to run with the Windows Azure platform. Download it
here.
Music Store sample application on Windows Azure
An end to end sample using most of the application blocks on Windows Azure as described in the
whitepaper. Download it from
here.
Blogs
Scott Densmore
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Ryan Dunn
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David Hill
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Alex Homer
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Masashi Narumoto
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Eugenio Pace
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Matias Woloski
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