Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff. Azure represents a general trend in the industry towards a cloud computing model. As much as I love the development phase of projects, the operations side is often the most cost intensify part. With economies of scale, cloud computing has the potential to greatly reduce those costs. I think example I took advantage of Windows Azure to host the web-tier of the application and Sql Azure to host the data. Those are actually independent decisions. You could decide to host one and not the other. You can see the full series here . The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 Silverlight 3 RTM .NET RIA Services...(read more)
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