No phone application is an island. Mobile applications are hungry for a couple of things. First, they need data. Second, they need computing power to process the data. The obvious solution to computing power and connected data is the 'cloud.' If you plan to connect mobile applications to the cloud, then this session is for you. We will start by migrating on-premise data to the cloud, specifically SQL Azure. Next, we will need to create web services to expose that data and make it available to Windows Phone 7 applications. Rather than just show you how to connect to some 'already created' data source, I show you how to build your own infrastructure to expose cloud based data to the world. This is a soup to nuts session that builds everything from scratch and gives you a limitless ability to consume data from Windows Phone 7 applications. I presented this session to 1000's during the Visual Studio 2010 launch and it was very well received. Join me in what I consider to be absolutely essential Windows Phone 7 development skills.

If scalability and reliability are important to your web applications, this session will help you achieve both. This session is heavy on hands-on development and will take you from the very beginning all the way to a finished application running in the cloud. What makes this session interesting is that builds everything from scratch, including the database. But a web application by itself is not scalable if the data cannot be scaled as well. That’s why both the MVC application and the database get migrated to Windows Azure and SQL Azure, respectively. By the time you leave this session, you will have created an on-premise database and MVC application and you will have migrated both the data and the app to the cloud. This session was delivered live to 1,000s with exceptional audience satisfaction.