2009 Session: Data in the Cloud: Accessing Azure
Wednesday, 16:40 - 17:30
Track: .NET
Microsoft's new Azure cloud services provide a number of ways to store data and .NET gives you a number of ways to access that data. This session will sort out the different ways data can be presented through Azure or directly from SQL Azure and explore a ways to work against these different data sources in your .NET apps.
Prerequisites
Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture
Expectations
Learn the differences between ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria), RIA Data Services, SQL Services and Azure.
Additional Info
Julia Lerman
Julie Lerman is the leading independent authority on the Entity Framework and author of the highly acclaimed Programming Entity Framework. She is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences around the world, including DevConnections and TechEd and she writes articles for many well-known technical publications. You can read Julie's blog at www.thedatafarm.com/blog.