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New release of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit

Microsoft updated its Windows Azure Training kit with the latest information. If you don’t know the Azure training kit, it includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Windows Azure platform including: Windows Azure, SQL Azure and the Windows Azure AppFabric. This release includes several updates. windows_azure

Here is what is new in the training kit:

  • Updated all hands-on labs and demo scripts for Visual Studio 2010, the .NET Framework 4, and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio version 1.2 release
  • Added a new hands-on lab titled "Introduction to the AppFabric Access Control Service (September 2010 Labs Release)"
  • Added a new hands-on lab "Debugging Applications in Windows Azure"
  • Added a new hands-on lab "Asynchronous Workload Handling"
  • Added a new exercise to the "Deploying Applications in Windows Azure" hands-on lab to show how to use the new tools to directly deploy from Visual Studio 2010.
  • Added a new exercise to the "Introduction to the AppFabric Service Bus" hands-on lab to show how to connect a WCF Service in IIS 7.5 to the Service Bus
  • Updated the "Introduction to AppFabric Service Bus" hands-on lab based on feedback and split the lab into 2 parts
  • All of the presentations have also been updated and refactored to provide content for a 3 day training workshop.
  • Updated the training kit navigation pages to include a 3 day agenda, a change log, and an improved setup process for hands-on labs.

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966-4A83-B309-53B7B77EDF78&displaylang=en

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