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In this month´s Windows Azure Insider column for MSDN Magazine, Bruno and I talk about Windows Azure Mobile Service, which abstracts many of the common tasks associated with developing solutions for device applications based on asynchronous calls. I hope that you enjoy it and find it helpful. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj721590.aspx.
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Maintain your Azure application directly from Visual Studio 2010, without having to redeploy every single file… Click here to open link…
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Deploying more than one instance of your web-facing role enforces the Windows Azure Compute Service Level Agreement (SLA). See the full blog entry from the Azure team… Click here to open link…
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