1. Bret Stateham Owner, Net Connex bret@netconnex.com blogs.netconnex.com twitter.com\bstateham

2. Intro to Azure Signing Up for Azure Development Tools Running some Code

3. Slide Content Stolen from a Microsoft Slide Deck

4. Computing Services Our Code Web Role Worker Role They Manage Multiple Instances Patching Failure Etc. Cloud Storage Our Data Blob Table Queue They Manage Disks Replication Failure Etc.

5. Go to www.microsoft.com/azure Follow the Links to “Register for Services” Sign up with Connect Complete Azure Services Invitations Program application Wait for token in email (days,weeks,months) Follow the link in the email to claim the token

6. Go to the Azure Services Developer Portal: lx.azure.microsoft.com

7. Windows Azure SDK (01/19 CTP) Windows Azure tools for Visual Studio (01/09 CTP) Microsoft.Net Services SDK Microsoft SQL Data Services SDK Live Framework Documentation and Resources Azure Services Training Kit

8. Have to be on Vista SP1 or Win 2008 (Win7?) Need IIS7 & WCF HTTP Activation Need SQL Express (05 or 08) by default

9. SDK Assumes you will be using Express (05 or 08) Edit the following files: – %samples%\MSBuild\Microsoft.Samples.ServiceHosting.Targets file – C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.0\bin\DevelopmentStorage.exe.config See the following blog post on indiangeek.net: Using Windows Azure SDK with SQL Server 2005/2008

10. Some things aren’t pretty Some things will break Some things will change Cloud computing is inevitable, so jump in now!

11. In the Azure SDK there is a samples.zip Expand that and run the “RunDevStorage.cmd” this will prep the SQL Express instance.

12. Web Role – ASP.NET Web Site – Listens on HTTP/HTTPS – Can work with storage Worker Role – Background processing – Can work with storage – Can read requests from a queue

14. The ServiceDefinition.csdef file contains the Service Definition Defines Roles – Web Role (http/https, port) – Worker Role Defines available Configuration Settings

15. The ServiceConfiguration.cscfg File Instances of each role Sets values for Configuration Settings Value

16. ProductionStaging Development

17. In Visual Studio use “Publish” – Builds & Creates… – CSPkg (Basically a zip of the binaries+) – CSCfg Go to: lx.azure.microsoft.com Two Environments – Staging – Production Can take a some time to initialize

19. Blobs – Store files, etc. Tables – Collections of items with properties Queues – FIFO Queue However I’ve heard it may be more like FIPFO Where P = Probably

20. My Sessions: – Today Getting Started with SQL Data Services (11:15am in UH 335) – Tomorrow SQL Server Integration Services Control Flows (10:15 in H 110) SQL Server Integration Services Control Flows (11:30 in H 110)

21. Stay in touch: bret@netconnex.com blogs.netconnex.com twitter: @BStateham gettag.mobi