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Howard Dierking demonstrates how to setup Azure hosting for the MSDN Magazine Pivot collection.

Source: CodeBetter.com

As I’ve mentioned in a couple earlier posts, Pivot is driven using Deep Zoom image pyramids. This means that for a collection of trade card images, multiple additional image combinations are generated for different zoom levels. The net result here is a LOT of generated images. For example, in the case of the MSDN Magazine Pivot collection, there are roughly 2400 article trade cards. Generating the deep zoom collection from this set of input images yields roughly 100,000 images with a total collection size of just under 500 MB.

Renuka Prasad has a step by step tutorial on how to create WP7 Toast Notification using Windows Azure Cloud Service with WCF Service web role.

Source: The Code Project

In this post I am going to show the step by step approach to create the Toast Notificaton on Wndows Phone7.

Before that you need to understand what is Microsoft Push Notification, to understand Windows Phone 7 notifications and flow please go through my earlier post from the below link 

Microsoft Push Notification in Windows Phone 7 - In Code Project

Festive game is built with Silverlight 4 and is hosted on Azure.

All you need to do to play the game is use the left and right keys to move the bouncing Santa. Increase your score by jumping up the clouds, make sure you don’t miss or it could be game over! Watch out for Santa’s run-a-way sleigh, it may drop bonus presents that you can catch for bonus speed. Collect six presents for a super speed bonus that will really send you up into new heights.

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Gavin Wignall built a Festive game to promote Windows Azure using Silverlight 4.

Source: Silverlight Buzz

Last year I created a Festive game for the Microsoft UK Partner team, with the creative help from our Metia team at Reading TVP, we managed to turn the game around in just one week! You can still play that game here: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/game/

After the success of last year we were given the challenge again to create a simple fun Festive game with the focus to be on Windows Azure. Again, I was given the creative support from our Metia TVP team so that I could focus my time on building the game mechanics. Thankfully, this year our turnaround time had been lengthened to two weeks.

           

In this episode of Spaghetti Code Podcast, Jeff Brand and Adam Grocholski talk about the Silverlight Firestarter event and about Silverlight 5.

Source: SlickThought.Net

Spaghetti Code hosts Jeff Brand and Adam Grocholski discussing events in the world of .NET development and beyond. This episode recaps the Silverlight Firestarter event and thoughts about Silverlight 5. It also explores new announcments in the Windows Azure world and also some additional tools for Silverlight developers that are now available.

In this blog post, Emil Stoychev explains how to deploy a web app to Windows Azure.

Source: Emil Stoychev's Blog

Cloud computing became a buzz word last 2 years and while I haven’t ever played with any “clouds” (excluding hosting media on Amazon S3 for SilverlightShow) I needed to deploy a web app to Windows Azure. The application itself consist of ASP.NET Web Application, couple of WCF services (including WCF Data Service) and a Silverlight application. The application is also using an SMTP server to send some reports on daily basis.

My case is pretty common and I was lucky enough to find all the information I needed on the web so I thought I will summarize all blogs I read to get my application up and running on the cloud.

Streams directly from windows Azure.

BlobStore was a fun project to work on and it gave me some nice exposure to Silverlight's networking stack (which I don't normally get a chance to use). There are some rough edges I didn't get around to smoothing over, but on the whole I think BlobStore turned out pretty well: it's small and quick to download, easy to use, it simplifies something I do every day, and it was a great learning experience!

Aside: You can even use BlobStore to publish Silverlight applications (just upload the XAP and HTML file), so it's got that recursive thing going for it, too..

In this second and last post I will talk about how you can retrieve the information about the deployed parts of the application and retrieve the actual XAP files from the Azure Blob Storage.

Still we only have one Silverlight project where we added just one interface as the contract for the import and lazy initialization and an attribute class to flag our parts in the Silverlight projects to come as user controls to be exported as parts of the application meeting the specified contract.