Eric Nelson

Building an application for Windows Azure & SQL Azure

In this session we will build an application that takes advantage of many of the features available in Windows Azure and SQL Azure and look at the implications of how we store data when we build applications deployed in the Cloud. We will cover "code near" vs "code far", relational vs none relational, blobs, queues and more.

Eric joined Microsoft in 1996 as a Technical Evangelist and has spent most of his time working with ISVs to help them architect solutions which make use of the latest Microsoft technologies - from the beta of ASP 1.0 through to ASP.NET, from MTS to WCF/WF and from the beta of SQL Server 6.5 through to SQL Server 2008. In July 2008 he switched role from an Application Architect to a Developer Evangelist in the Developer and Platform Group and his current interests include digging into LINQ to Entities, ADO.NET Data Services and switching from C# to Visual Basic Development.

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