Come join us at - Global Azure Bootcamp 2016 Organized by Ahmedabad User Group

Do you want to be part of largest community event is the world? If Yes, then Global Azure boot camp 2016 is there. Ahmedabad User group is going to organize Global Azure boot camp.


The global azure boot camp is going to be organized at more than 180 locations worldwide. They are going to have some cool Azure lab. So I would encourage you to participate in that.

You can find more information about that following link.

http://global.azurebootcamp.net/

If you want to participate in this one of the greatest event hosted by Ahmedabad User Group then you can register via the following  link.

gab16aug.eventbrite.com

Please create a pass for yourself and be there. I am also going to be there as a speaker and going to present about document DB.

So see you all there!

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My sample code for 2015 Global Azure Bootcamp Ahmedabad

Lots of people ask for my sample code application for my presentation on “Azure Storage Services”.  So here is source code(Sample application) for 2015 Global Azure Bootcamp, Ahmedabad.

Source code of sample application for  2015 Global Azure Bootcamp , Ahmedabad:

You can find source of sample application which I have created at following location on GitHub.
https://github.com/dotnetjalps/GlobalAzureBootcampDemo

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Azure Frequently Ask Questions: How to create a storage account with new portal

After presenting About Azure Storage Services at Global Windows Azure boot camp at Ahmedabad. I got lot of feedback and questions. One of the frequently asked question was how we can create a storage account with new Azure portal Preview. So I thought it would be a great idea to write a walk through post for it.

As you know, Before few months Microsoft has launched a new Azure portal in preview mode. It’s amazing there are lots of features available. You can find azure portal at portal.azure.com. You can do lots of stuff and monitoring that were not possible with current portal. I've tried and really like it. Please do try it and tell community about your feedback.

How to create a storage account with new azure portal:

So what we are waiting for let’s start our walk through of creating a storage account with new portal. So once you put url in browser it will be ask for login with your azure live account.

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Entity Framework Code First and MySql on Azure

We have used Entity framework with SQL Servers mostly. In this blog post we are going to see how we can use Entity framework with MySql on Azure.

How to create MySql database on Azure:

On azure MySql is not maintained by Microsoft itself. It is provided their partner cleardb. So You need to search at Azure Market Place and then add it like below.

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Visual Studio 14 CTP virtual machine on Azure

Recently Microsoft has release a CTP version of Visual Studio 14 with ASP.NET VNext application. So I thought I will download and try it. But due to bad internet connection it was not downloading properly. Then I cam across following post about Visual Studio 14 CTP Virtual Machine on Azure.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/06/04/visual-studio-14-ctp-now-available-in-the-virtual-machine-azure-gallery.aspx

So I thought it’s a good idea to spin a virtual machine instead of downloading and installing that which would cost me a day. While on Azure I can set that virtual machine in minutes.

So Following are steps for creating a virtual machine in Azure.

How to Create a Virtual Machine on Microsoft Azure with Visual Studio 14 CTP:

1) Login into your Microsoft Azure Account

2) From dashboard goto virtual machine and select Create Virtual Machine.

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Creating a WordPress blog on azure websites

In this post we are going to learn how we can create WordPress blog with Azure web sites.

What is Azure Web Sites?

Before some time Microsoft has released Azure web sites for South East Asia region. Windows Azure web sites offers secure and flexible deployment and scaling options for any kind of web application. You can use your existing tools to create and deploy applications to Azure Websites.

Windows Azure web site provides following features.

• Provision and deploy fast
• Secure platform that scales automatically
• Great experience for Visual Studio developers. Even you can edit some code with online visual studio(Monaco).
• Open and Flexible for anyone
• Monitor and Alert
• Auto scale to optimize cost and performance
• A great gallery of most popular applications and easy direct deployment.

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