November 2010

Volume 25 Number 11

November 2010 Code Downloads

November 2010

Cloud Collaboration - Connecting SharePoint to Windows Azure with Silverlight Web Parts

There are many ways to integrate Windows Azure applications with SharePoint 2010. We’ll walk you through one example: a Silverlight-based Web Part that consumes data from the cloud.
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Cloud Computing - Synchronizing Multiple Nodes in Windows Azure

Learn how to utilize elasticity—the ability to provision resources and remove them on the fly—to take full advantage of cloud computing.
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Forecast: Cloudy - SQL Azure and Windows Azure Table Storage

When migrating your applications to Windows Azure, there are several data storage options to choose from. We’ll look at strengths of SQL Azure and Windows Azure Table Storage to help you understand which is the right choice for your app.
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Test Run - Web UI Test Automation with the WebBrowser Control

Modal message boxes generated by a Web application pose a tricky problem for automated testing. We’ll show you a relatively simple technique for creating a test harness for these cases.
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UI Frontiers - The Intricacies of Touch Controls

Charles is intrigued by the Windows Phone 7 touch controls and tries to duplicate them in Windows Presentation Foundation, finding out that good multi-touch coding is a lot harder than it seems.
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