Deep Dive into azure and Silverlight

Getting started with Silverlight 'Getting started with Silverlight'Including 11 videos and related materials. This section describes features, related skills, and applications required to create a Silverlight application. (Link)

Great Windows Live videocasts and information:
Check it out on the live services blog at http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/

In-depth windows azure services platform?
I have been involved in a course over the last several weeks and this is a mere fraction of the reading material we have covered. (believe me, it is just a small fraction too ...) At any rate, this is all publically available stuff, and there's quite a lot of videos/screen casts you cocould leverage as well, but here's a abridged reading material syllabus:

ÜRead David Chappell's White Paper
Http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/4/3/e43bb484-3b52-4fa8-a9f9-ec60a32954bc/Azure_Services_Platform.pdf

 

ÜRead the msdn Magazine "An Introduction to restful services with WCF"
Http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.01.servicestation.aspx

ÜRead "getting started with the Windows azure SDK"
Http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179419.aspx

 

ÜRead the White Paper on azure table Storage
Http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink? Linkid = 131257

 

ÜRead the White Paper on azure blob Storage
Http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink? Linkid = 131258

 

ÜRead the White Paper on azure queue Storage

Http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/2/D/52D36345-BB08-4518-A024-0AA24D47BD12/Windows%20Azure%20Queue%20-%20Dec%202008.docx

 

ÜRead "Understanding service architecture"
Http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179341.aspx

 

ÜPerform the steps in Jim Nakashima's walkthrough "quick lap around the windows azure tools for Microsoft Visual Studio"
Http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203059.aspx

 

ÜRead "Introducing Geneva" by David Chappell
Http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx? Familyid = 9ca5c685-3172-4d8f-81cb-1a59bdc9f7e3 & displaylang = en

 

ÜRead "Introduction to Windows Live ID"
Http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb288408.aspx

 

ÜRead "Microsoft Federation Gateway"
Http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287610.aspx

 

ÜRead "Understanding Windows Live delegated authentication"
Http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287613.aspx

 

ÜRead "Introducing Live Mesh" by Amit mital
Http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/04/22/279.aspx

 

ÜRead the live framework White Paper
Http://dev.live.com/liveframework/livefxwhatwhy.pdf

 

ÜRead msdn Magazine "building distributed applications with. Net Services" by Aaron skonnard
Http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd569759.aspx

 

ÜRead ". net service bus Overview"
Http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd129877.aspx 

Note: important information in service pack2

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