Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure.
Here is what we pulled together for the past week based on your feedback:
Articles, Videos and Blog Posts
- Global Render Lab at the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp (posted Apr. 28)
- What is new in Service Bus 2.0? (posted May 1)
- Manually configure Point-To-Site VPN (posted May 1)
- Understanding Windows Azure Fabric Controller error handling model (posted May 2)
- Introducing Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .Net (posted Apr. 30)
- Clash of the Clouds Followup (posted May 1)
- Zudio is now in “Free Trial” phase (posted Apr. 27)
- Building a simple custom STS using VS2012 & ASP.NET MVC (posted Apr. 9)
Global Windows Azure Boot Camp Recaps:(In local languages, use a modern browser to translate)
Windows Azure Service Bus 2.0
The Service Bus Explorer is a tool developed available on MSDN Code Gallery that allows developers and system administrators to manage, test, debug and monitor queues, topics, subscriptions and relay services running in a Windows Azure Service Bus namespace. The new version of the tool gets advantage of the new features introduced by Windows Azure Service Bus 2.0:
- Shared Access Signatures at the connection and entity level
- Authorization Rules
- Metrics and monitoring support
- Message browsing from queues, subscriptions and dead letter queues
- Repairing and resubmitting messages
- AutoDeleteOnIdle support for brokered messaging entities
See the notes on the MSDN Code Gallery page for more information on the new features.
Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings
North America
- May 15, 2013: Chicago Azure User Group Meetup - Downers Grove, IL
- May 16, 2013: Scott Guthrie, AZGroups day of Azure - Scottsdale, AZ
- May 17, 2013: Stir Trek: Darkness Edition - Columbus, OH
- June 1, 2013: Pittsburgh TechFest 2013 - Pittsburgh, PA
- August 16-18: Code on the Beach 2013 - Atlantic Beach, FL
Europe
- May 6, 2013: Alan Smith talks twice: migrating to the cloud & web site authentication – Belgium
- May 27, 2013: Dutch Windows Azure user group meeting (#14)—Veenendaal, Netherlands
Rest of World/Virtual
- May 5, 2013: SharePoint 2013 Developer Boot Camp - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- May 5-9, 2013: SELA Developer Practice - Israel
- May 25, 2013: SQL Saturday Sydney - Sydney, Australia
- June 5, 2013: Windows Azure Community in Israel June Meeting: Windows Azure Service Bus– Israel
Interesting Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow
- Locking Azure SQL record only when accessed by a specific call– 1 answer, 0 votes
- How to set up Web Role to A Record DNS - 1 answer, 0 votes
- Can't authenticate with token - 1 answer, 0 votes
- WAAD Tools for ASP.NET - Exception - 1 answer, 0 votes
- Does service bus have Task bases API - 2 answers, 0 votes
- Scale out senarios with Azure Sql (geolocation) - 1 answer, 0 votes