Azure deep dive

A week-long series of live, interactive sessions from the experts who built Azure that will show you how to start using Windows Azure in your solutions today.

Useful blogs

Scott Guthrie on Azure improvements

The Official Windows Azure blog

Entity framework home page

ADO.NET blog

Julie Lerman’s Programming Entity Framework blog

Reminder to self to look at the MSDN Magazine June Issue when it comes out.
  Windows Azure Insider gets you up to speed on concepts and principles behind multi-tenant applications...

I had heard of Microsoft BizSpark before but never really looked into it. It is surprising to see how many entrepreneurs have been supported by it.

There is an interactive map showing companies set up by people on the programme which is fun to browse around. Some of the companies look to have been going for a while, others have not got going yet.

More about BizSpark

A Microsoft book on Developing Multi-tenant Applications for the Cloud. 246 pages, free to download. This is so much better than having to buy those paper things.

Having fun with Windows Azure and ASP.NET MVC 4...

My Bee Hive Inspection app is coming along nicely. It is remarkably easy to create a web based data driven app, put it in the cloud and access it from your mobile phone...