Roger Jennings - Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform

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This book is dedicated to my wife, Alexandra.

Looking forward to our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

About the Author

Roger Jennings is an author and consultant specializing in Microsoft .NET n -tier database applications and data-intensive Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Web services with SQL Server. He's been a beta tester for most versions of Visual Basic, starting with the Professional Extensions for Visual Basic 2.0 (code-named Rawhide), SQL Server since version 4.21, and all versions of Visual Studio.

More than 1.25 million English copies of Roger's 26 computer-related books are in print, and they have been translated into more than 20 languages. He's the author of Professional ADO.NET 3.5 with LINQ and the Entity Framework and Expert One-on-One Visual Basic 2005 Database Programming for Wiley/Wrox, three editions of Database Developer's Guide to Visual Basic (SAMS Publishing), two editions of Access Developer's Guide (SAMS), 11 editions of Special Edition Using Microsoft Access (QUE Publishing), and two editions of Special Edition Using Windows NT 4.0 Server (QUE). He's also written developer-oriented books about Windows 3.1 multimedia, Windows 95, and Windows 2000 Server for QUE; Active Directory Group Policy and Visual Basic web services for Osborne McGraw-Hill; and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 SP-1 for Microsoft Press. Roger has been a contributing editor of Redmond Media Group's Visual Studio Magazine and its predecessor, Fawcette Technical Publications' Visual Basic Programmer's Journal , for more than 15 years. His articles also appear in Redmond Magazine and he writes TechBriefs and cover stories for Redmond Developer News .

Roger has more than 30 years of computer-related experience, beginning with real-time medical data acquisition and chemical process control systems driven by Wang 700 calculators and later Wang BASIC microcomputers. He's the principal developer for OakLeaf Systems, a Northern California software consulting firm and author of the OakLeaf Systems blog (http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com). His OakLeaf Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) ASP.NET Web service demonstration won the charter Microsoft .NET Best Award for Horizontal Solutions (http://bit.ly/Balng, www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2002/aug02/08-07netwinners.mspx).

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Acknowledgments

Many thanks to technical editors Dave Robinson and Mike Amundsen for corrections and suggestions as the chapters passed through numerous Community Technical Previews and SQL Azure Database's mid-course correction.

David Robinson is a Senior Program Manager on the SQL Azure Database (SADB) team. David is responsible for a multitude of things including driving product features, code samples, and most importantly demonstrating to customers the value that SADB and cloud computing provides. David enjoys getting out in the community, presenting on SADB, gathering feedback, and helping to ensure SADB meets whatever demands you throw at it. David has also written for MSDN magazine on developing solutions against SADB. Before joining the SADB team, David was a Solutions Architect on Microsoft's Health and Life Sciences team. Before joining Microsoft, David held various senior positions with a variety of software and consulting companies. David got his start as a developer at Computer Associates in the early '90s. When not working, David enjoys spending time with his wife and helping her corral their four young daughters. David blogs at http://bit.ly/qIT1S, http://blogs.msdn.com/drobinson/default.aspx.