The Windows Azure Marketplace is an online marketplace for developers to share, find, buy and sell building block components, training, service templates, premium data sets plus finished services and applications needed to build Windows Azure applications.
Hands-On Labs
- Introduction to Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications
In this lab, you will learn how to publish your application in the Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications. By doing so, you will allow other users to buy a subscription and use it. You will also learn how to handle those subscriptions from a developer perspective, associate a user account to your application leveraging the Windows Azure Access Control Services to federate with the social identity providers (for example, Windows Live Id) and how your application needs to be updated to manage the subscription lifecycle (subscribe, register, access, use, unsubscribe).
- Introduction to Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
In this lab you will learn about Microsoft's information service called Windows Azure Marketplace for Data. We'll start by exploring the developer portal and service explorer, in addition to covering consuming DataMarket datasets via managed code and PowerPivot.
