Windows 8 Windows Azure Notification Hubs: Getting Started This is part 1 of a 3 part series where we will get to know how Notification Hubs work and why they are a cool feature of Windows Azure. You can get the
mysql Using WordPress on Windows Azure with SQL Server instead of MySQL Introduction Creating a WordPress based site on Windows Azure is already pretty trivial, you can very easily select WordPress from the gallery when creating an Azure Website. The problem is, by default, Wordpress
windows azure Using SQL Server as a Service on Windows Azure Having a database on the cloud has never been easier. In this post, I’ll show you how to create your own database server on the cloud and create databases on it. You
windows azure websites Deploying Windows Azure Websites using Dropbox Introduction If you want to keep track of your Website versions, easily switch between deployments but don’t want a more complicated version control system such Git or TFS, then this post is
windows azure websites How to serve static .json files from a Windows Azure Website If you upload a .json file to your Windows Azure website and try to access it, it would give you a 404 File Not Found error, because the MIME Type of .json is
vm Creating a load balanced, highly available IIS web farm on Windows Azure Introduction In the previous post, we learned how to customize a virtual machine and capture it as a reusable image [https://sabbour.me/how-to-customize-a-virtual-machine-on-windows-azure-then-capture-it-as-reusable-image] . In this post we are going to be building
virtual machine How to customize a Virtual Machine on Windows Azure, then capture it as reusable image Introduction In this 2 series post, we'll be creating a web farm of virtual machines running IIS on Windows Server 2012. In the first part, we will customize a Windows Server 2012 machine
Mobile Services The cross platform Shopping List demo with a Windows Azure backend We've been doing a combined demo in our dev camps recently, which is a shopping list application that works cross platform (Windows 8, Windows Phone and Android) with a Windows Azure Mobile Services
YouTube Windows Azure video tutorials and champ calls YouTube channel I started posting video tutorials on YouTube under my channel here: http://aka.ms/sabbourazure 4Afrika Azure Champ Calls We also started a monthly Windows Azure champ call, which will also
OAuth Part 1: Protecting an ASP.net Web API hosted on Azure with OAuth Simple Web Tokens using the Access Control Service – Server Side Introduction I've been in this situation many times, I have an API that needs an authenticated user to access it, how can this problem be solved? You could pass the username and password
Windows Azure Mobile Services Creating Hashtag Monitor app. A application using Windows Azure Mobile Services Introduction In this post, I'll be creating an application that registers for monitoring a specific hashtag on twitter for new tweets. When there is a batch of new tweets, the application will be
Windows Azure Mobile Services Get started on Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows Store, Windows Phone, iOS and Android apps Furthering Windows Azure commitment to open source development, Microsoft announced http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/scenarios/mobile-services/ that developers can begin using Windows Azure Mobile Services to develop native Android applications. Mobile
windows azure Creating a Facebook app using ASP.NET MVC Facebook Templates and hosting them for free on Windows Azure Websites Introduction If you haven't checked out the ASP.net and Web Tools 2012.12 release, you should! It is a tooling refresh of Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web,
Kenya Meet Windows Azure #MSKenCamp presentation Hello friends, you'll find my presentation "Meet Windows Azure" presented at the Microsoft Kenya Developer Camp on Skydrive below: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=a41c4b916c22d07e&id=A41C4B916C22D07E!107#!/?cid=a41c4b916c22d07e&id=A41C4B916C22D07E%21107
node.js Hosting an Express Node.js website on Azure I'm writing this post from Kenya, where I'm presenting Windows Azure this week at the #MSKenCamp [https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23MSKenCamp&src=hash]. Be sure to follow the hashtag and @AfricaApps
windows azure My top 5 favorite reasons to start on Windows Azure for free If now is the time for anything, it is the time of the cloud. If you've been wanting to try out cloud computing, why wait? Even if you haven't considered cloud computing as