Implement Windows Azure Websites from Web matrix 3 installed from Windows Azure Management Portal

Recently it has been announced the availability of Web matrix 3 as mentioned  here. You can now install Web matrix in order to work on Windows Azure Websites from Windows Azure Management Portal itself as shown.

• If  click on Webmatrix icon , you would be forwarded to following dialog.

• Lets install the Web matrix tool in order to start coding on Azure websites.

• After installing , lets start coding with latest interface & run directly the app with Azure website URL(*.azurewebsites.net).
• You can sign in directly using your Microsoft Account or Org id in order to run your app on Windows Azure from Web matrix 3.

• Once you sign in , you are good to go to work on code on Windows Azure websites as followed.

• Even you can run the application from Remote server as configured from Web matrix 3 settings.

Hybrid Applications on Cloud , Elastic & Resilent Cloud Apps- Ebooks available from Microsoft Patterns & Practices

Building Scalable, Rich & Enterprise LOB apps on Windows Azure platform makes more easy by Pattern & Practices Team. Introduces their new book “Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure“.

The book contains indepth features of Synchronizations of data across Cloud & On-premise(SQL Azure Sync framework capability) , ACS & ADFS integration in terms of identity solutions, vivid description of Enterprise reliable messaging & communications mechanisms by Service bus remoting, EDI & EAI frameworks, Web services(Push & Pull model), scalability & high availability on Autoscaling application blocks(wasabi cmdlets), Network latency (Azure Traffic Manager), Cross -network communication.

 

• Download the book here.

For Resilent & Autoscaling features, complete guidelines about Autoscaling Wasabi cmdlets , storage application blocks. Download ebook “Building Elastic & Resilent Applications on Cloud Developer’s Guide to the Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure”.

Download the book from here

Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation CookBook is now Available

The Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation CookBook is now available contains advanced features of Claims based Identity, Programming in Windows Identity Foundation, WIF with Windows Azure ACS integration with SAML (2.0) tokens, ADFS 2.0 integration, Enterprise Server interoperability with WIF , ADFS & Windows Azure Appfabric Access Control Service(2.0) along with configuration of Federation Metadata in Windows 8 & Windows Server 2012 preview.

The book is available on http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-windows-identity-foundation-cookbook/book

P.S: The article is based on the Technical Review request sent by PacktPub Publishing.