Azure

Technical training courses, articles and blog posts tagged with “Azure”, Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform, which allows customers to build, host and deploy scalable web apps. Azure plays host to options such as SQL Azure (cloud-based SQL Server), and AppFabric, which comprises Access Control Service, AppFabric Applications, Service Bus, Caching, and Integration (akin to Microsoft BizTalk Server).

New Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012

Microsoft has just released a tool suite that bolts on to Visual Studio 2012. The new Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 allow deeper control, integration, and app development and deployment options for Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, and cloud-based Office 365.

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Following the new Modern design paradigm that is running through the latest generation of Microsoft products and platforms, the underlying technologies are assembled with ease of deployment to the Web and Cloud firmly in mind. HTML5, …

Microsoft has just released a tool suite that bolts on to Visual Studio 2012. The new Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 allow deeper control, integration, and app development and deployment options for Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, and cloud-based Office 365.

microsoft-office-2013-logo

Following the new Modern design paradigm that is running through the latest generation of Microsoft products and platforms, the underlying technologies are assembled with ease of deployment to the Web and Cloud firmly in mind. HTML5, CSS, JavaScript are promoted for develop rich user interfaces, while OData provides solid and platform-agnostic networked data connectivity (the same OData API used with Windows Azure).

It’s great news for internal development teams that create and maintain Office solutions within their organisations, but also paves the way for small, medium and large commercial software houses to develop and publish apps to the Microsoft Office Store.

Want to know more? Check out “Project Napa”, where you can create apps for SharePoint and Office 2013 / 365 directly in your browser, with the option to drop them into Visual Studio 2012 later on, and keep on coding.

 

 

BizTalk Server 2010 Administration Training Course

BizTalk Server 2010 is Microsoft’s enterprise-scale platform for automating business processes; integration between enterprise apps; acting as a Message Broker for WCF and XML Web Services, and providing business activity monitoring.

This two-day instructor-led course (with an optional third day covering BizTalk best practices around design, infrastructure and operations) provides students with the knowledge and skills required to install and configure a computer running Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010. The course also shows you how to deploy and manage BizTalk applications in a production environment.

Silverlight 5 Training Course

Our Silverlight app development course will give you a fast-track introduction to developing Silverlight 5 apps using Visual Studio 2010, and the Expression suite of tools.

BizTalk Server 2010 Developer Training Course

BizTalk Server 2010 training course for .NET developers who need to gain hands-on experience of creating transformation maps, orchestrations, and pipelines with Visual Studio. We will also cover creating and consuming WCF and Azure services.

Introduction to Cloud Computing Training Course

Our course takes a candid look at some of the key Cloud platforms and service providers, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2, Google, and IBM, and also examines the criteria and key considerations for developing your own Cloud services.