22nd May 2012
PaaS - Under The Hood: Packaging and Deployment in Windows Azure - Part 1
Windows Azure is the platform used by many .NET developers to run their code. Though Windows Azure supports popular languages and frameworks like Java, Node.js and PHP, it was originally created for the .NET world. The very first step for the developers targeting Windows Azure is to package and deploy their code in a format that is expected by the platform. This article analyzes the elements of a Cloud application to be deployed on Windows Azure.
13th Feb 2012
Step-by-Step Guide to Amazon DynamoDB for .NET Developers
This tutorial is meant for the .NET developers to get started with Amazon DynamoDB. I will show you how to create a Table and perform CRUD operations on it. Amazon DynamoDB provides a low-level API and an Object Persistence API for the .NET developers. In this tutorial, we will see how to use the Object Persistence API to talk to Amazon DynamoDB. We will model a component that represents a DVD Library with capabilities to add, modify, query and delete individual DVDs.