This article aims to talk about Windows Store Notifications and the Windows Azure Notifications Hub and it will attempt to collate the various articles in a single place to help you build notifications into your app. In order for you to get an understanding of Windows notifications look at the following article …

Rik, Andrew and I will be at some of the upcoming UK TechDays that are being held. I can’t recommend these days highly enough and every attendee that I have spoken to at previous events has found them both thoroughly enjoyable and useful. Rik, Andrew and I will be at the System Center 2012 SP1 IT Pro camp tomorrow …

One of our projects involves a web service that implements both SignalR and Web API and we were looking at the quickest and most cost effective way to get it deployed so that one of our customers could run a Windows 8 application as a demo away from the office. The application works well internally as we have the …

The Windows Azure Training Kit June 2012 release is out now with the following features: 12 new hands-on labs for Windows Azure Virtual Machines 11 new hands-on labs for Windows Azure Web Sites 2 new hands-on labs demonstrating Windows Azure with Windows 8 Metro-style applications Several new hands-on labs for Node.js …

The latest tools for windows Azure are located here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29988 This version is supported in both Visual Studio 2010 & 2012 and will run on Windows 7 & 8 Server 2008 & 2012

If you have installed the Window Azure Toolkit For Windows 8 you may want to deploy it to a real live environment so that you can try out the notification service and start wiring useful Windows 8 applications. I assumed this was going to be a quick task, but it took me a little longer than expected. Firstly when you …