Wade Wegner

So far I’ve really enjoyed developing applications for Windows 8.

I’ve long advocated using JSON when building mobile and cloud applications.

Excellent keynote today by Scott Guthrie and the Windows Azure team!

Today’s release marks a significant milestone for Windows Azure.

Recently Steve Marx and I spent a few hours working on a best practices document for Windows Azure.

This past week I’ve been working on a little project – amazing how less email equates to more time for other endeavors – and I was surprised when I received a DataServiceQueryException when querying table storage in the local storage emulator.

It’s been a little more than three weeks since I announced my departure from Microsoft.

I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about the right title for this post.

Have you seen this error before?

If you follow my blog or on Twitter then you know that I’m passionate about using services running in Windows Azure to power mobile applications.

Recently I wrote a WCF service that fronted an on-premises SQL Server database for an MVC application running in a Window Azure Web Role.

Yes, that title is a mouthful.

A couple days ago I wrote a post on outsourcing user authentication in a Windows Phone application, demonstrating how easy it is to leverage the Windows Azure Access Control service in your Windows Phone application.

Yesterday I shared all the NuGet packages we’re building to make it easy to build Windows Phone and Windows Azure applications.

Earlier this week we released the Windows Azure SDK 1.6, which includes a lot of great updates to the emulators, tools for Visual Studio, and libraries.

If you’ve been paying attention to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone (or my twitter feed) the last couple weeks, you’ve probably noticed something about NuGet packages.

I’m working on a Windows Phone project that requires me to surface up multiple RSS feeds as a single source.

Today we published the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit - October Release.

Yesterday I released an update to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone.

Yesterday we released the Window Azure Platform Training Kit – September 2011 Release.

Now that we can get our hands on the Windows Developer Preview of Windows 8, I’m sure everyone is excited to start building applications!

I love building keynote applications!

I am **_tremendously _**pleased to share that today we have released the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android!

In this week’s episode of Cloud Cover, Steve and I covered Logging, Tracing, and ELMAH in Windows Azure.

Today we released an update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit to include a new HOL: Introduction to Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications.

The v1.2 release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS includes support for Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS).

The Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way of accessing Windows Azure storage from iOS-based applications.

UPDATE: In publishing this post, I encountered an issue with the plugin.

Yesterday Steve Marx and I covered the new Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 1.4 release on the Cloud Cover Show (will publish on Friday, 8/5).

Today we released the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – August 2011.

Today we released an update to our Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS that provides some significant enhancements – in particular, we now provide support for using the Windows Azure Access Control Server (ACS) from an iOS application.

Last night we released an update to the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS.

At this point I’m sure you’ve heard that the Windows Phone Developer Tools for “Mango” released today (also called the Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta).

One of the most common requests I’ve received for the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 has been a tutorial for deploying the services to Windows Azure.

A few days ago, Fredrik Olsson opened a pull request against our GitHub repository for the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS.

Today’s release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 (v1.2.1) has two important updates: Support for Visual Basic Bug fixes You can download the latest drop here: http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com/releases/view/61952 Visual Basic When we releas…

Here it is – the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2!

At MIX11 we released the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.1.0, which included out-of-the-box support for the Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS) for Windows Phone.

I’ve been really pleased with our delivery cadence for the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Since the initial launch of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS, we’ve not only updated & changed the library, but we’ve also renamed the repository.

I was excited to receive my MSDN Magazine in the mail this week, as an article written by myself and Karandeep Anand—a Principal Group Program Manager on the AppFabric team—was finally published.

I have just published a short screencast that demonstrates how to get started with the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.

I am tremendously excited to announce the release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.

I often hear from people that they want to try out the Virtual Machine Role (VM Role for short) but cannot find it in the Windows Azure portal and don’t see the option in Visual Studio.

link The February 2011 update of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes several updates and bug fixes for the hands-on labs.

Prior to the release of the Windows Azure 1.3 SDK, Web roles hosted your application in IIS Hosted Web Core (HWC).

I’m excited to tell you about the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February release.

If you take a good look at the latest Release Notes for the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February Release – or if you jump directly into the new SDK and try to programmatically configure the Caching client – you’ll quickly discover that the DataCacheSecuri…

Pardon the indulgence, but this post is not related to Windows Azure, cloud computing, or technology whatsoever.

I am thrilled to announce that we have released a January 2011 update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit & Training Course.