Free UK Azure Training Workshops in Reading and Edinburgh in February

As part of Microsoft UKs Azure Awareness Week in February (2010) we have three training workshops for partners taking place.

I have added them over on the new community site. Don’t delay – I expect the places to vanish quickly!

Tuesday Reading

Wednesday Reading

Thursday Edinburgh

Audience

This workshop is aimed at software developers with at least 6 months practical experience using Visual Studio and C# that have an interest in developing applications in the Windows Azure Platform.

Workshop Outline

Module 1: Windows Azure Platform overview
Module 2: Introduction to Windows Azure
Module 3: Building services using Windows Azure
Module 4: Windows Azure storage
Module 5: Building applications using SQL Azure
Module 6: Introduction to.NET Services
Module 7: Building applications using the.NET Service Bus

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