Introducing Windows Azure (Expert's Voice in .NET) [Paperback]

Henry Li (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 143022469X | ISBN-13: 978-1430224693 | Publication Date: December 10, 2009 | Edition: 1

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s next-generation cloud-computing operating system and is designed to provide companies with new business opportunities as they migrate towards hosted services.

Introducing Microsoft Azure provides all the information developers need to get started with this new technology and apply it across a range of situations. Presented in a clear, concise, manner this book provides a carefully measured learning curve for surmounting the architectural and coding challenges that need to be faced when building a well-balanced Windows Azure service.

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About the Author

Henry Li is a technical consultant specializing in enterprise application integration and distributed system automation solutions. He runs his own consulting firm, SoftnetSolutions Consulting Inc, based in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Henry resides with wife Wenyan and lovely daughter Emma in the beautiful Portland area of Oregon. He can be contacted at [e-mail] for any questions regarding this book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (December 10, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 143022469X
• ISBN-13: 978-1430224693
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,239,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Poor. Rushed to Market., February 19, 2010

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This review is from: Introducing Windows Azure (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

This book was clearly rushed to market before the final Azure SDK was released. I'm only on page 6 and already there are 3 errors that are severely preventing me from working through the first example. If the first 6 pages are any indication, this will be a painful book to get through. Save your money until it's properly updated with correct info.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Outdated, May 27, 2010

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Marshall Rosenstein ".NET Nerd" (Salem, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Introducing Windows Azure (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

This book was already outdated by the time it was published, despite the rush job to market. Both the tools and SDK (namespaces, etc.) have already changed significantly.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just screenshots and code reprints, January 7, 2010

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Maciej Kaski "maciek kanski" (Warsaw, Poland) - See all my reviews
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This book is nothing more than a copy&paste of sample source code and screenshots from Visual Studio. In fact the Author wrote only several pages from himself. In my opinion it's better to look for publicly available hands-on-labs from Azure or wait for another book.