https://www.developerfusion.com/t/azure/books/view/unanswered/ 2011-12-03T15:44:00.00Z http://www.developerfusion.com/book/133892/microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-unleashed/ 2011-11-30T16:38:00.00Z

Microsoft® Dynamics CRM 2011 Unleashed presents start-to-finish guidance for planning, customizing, deploying, integrating, managing, and securing the newest version of Dynamics CRM. Authored by three leading Microsoft Dynamics implementers, it illuminates new opportunities to deploy CRM as a hosted service (SaaS), integrate with Azure cloud services, and extend CRM through Microsoft's new online service marketplace.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/134083/microsoft-biztalk-server-2010-unleashed/ 2011-12-03T15:44:00.00Z

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed is the 100% new, 100% practical developer’s guide to Microsoft’s most powerful version of BizTalk Server. Written by an expert team of Microsoft insiders and BizTalk MVPs, it reflects unsurpassed experience with all phases of BizTalk enterprise solutions development, from planning through deployment and administration.The authors begin by introducing BizTalk Server’s architecture and key integration concepts.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/123892/microsoft-windows-azure-development-cookbook/ 2011-08-12T03:08:00.00Z

This cookbook offers practical, immediately usable task-based recipes covering a wide range of advanced development techniques for building highly scalable cloud-based services on the Windows Azure platform. It shows you how to improve these services and how to solve particular problems/scenarios when developing them on the Windows Azure platform.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/93285/applied-architecture-patterns-on-the-microsoft-platform/ 2011-01-31T15:27:00.00Z

An in-depth scenario-driven approach to architecting systems using Microsoft technologies *Provides an architectural methodology for choosing Microsoft application platform technologies to meet the requirements of your solution *Examines new technologies such as Windows Server AppFabric, StreamInsight, and Windows Azure Platform and provides examples of how they can be used in real-world solutions

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/88281/moving-applications-to-the-cloud-on-the-microsoft-azure-platform/ 2010-08-30T00:00:00.00Z

How can a company's applications be scalable and have high availability?To achieve this, along with developing the applications, you must also have an infrastructure that can support them. For example, you may need to add servers or increase the capacities of existing ones, have redundant hardware, add logic to the application to handle distributed computing, and add logic for failovers. You have to do this even if an application is in high demand for only short periods of time.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/81945/programming-windows-azure-programming-the-microsoft-cloud/ 2010-05-25T00:00:00.00Z

Learn the ins and outs of cloud computing with Windows Azure, Microsoft's new cloud service platform. Programming Windows Azure demonstrates clearly how to use Windows Azure's hosting capabilities and storage services to build, deploy, host and manage applications in the cloud. *Learn how to build applications using the Windows Azure toolset *Understand how to use Windows Azure's programming model and management capabilities

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/85688/visual-basic-2010-unleashed/ 2010-05-17T00:00:00.00Z

Foreword by Beth MassiSenior Program Manager, Microsoft Visual StudioVisual Basic 2010 Unleashed is the most comprehensive, practical reference to modern object-oriented programming with Visual Basic 2010. Written by Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, a long-time leader of the global VB community, this book illuminates the core of the VB language and demonstrates its effective use in a wide variety of programming scenarios.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/80498/microsoft-silverlight-4-data-and-services-cookbook/ 2010-05-14T00:00:00.00Z

Over 85 practical recipes for creating rich, data-driven business applications in Silverlight *Design and develop rich data-driven business applications in Silverlight *Rapidly interact with and handle multiple sources of data and services within Silverlight business applications

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/79281/professional-visual-studio-2010/ 2010-05-10T00:00:00.00Z

A must-have guide that covers all the new features of Visual Studio 2010Visual Studio allows you to create and manage programming projects for the Windows platform, and the new 2010 version has undergone a major overhaul comprised of significant changes. Written by an author team of veteran programmers and developers, this book gets you quickly up to speed on what you can expect from the newest version of Visual Studio.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/65091/introducing-net-40-with-visual-studio-2010/ 2010-02-01T00:00:00.00Z

Microsoft is introducing a large number of changes to the way that the .NET Framework operates. Many familiar technologies are being altered, best practices replaced, and developer methodologies adjusted. Many developers find it hard to keep up with the pace of change across .NET's ever-widening array of technologies. You may know what's happening in C#, but what about the Azure cloud? How is that going to affect your work? What are the limitations of the new pLINQ syntax?

James Crowley