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In my last blogpost I talked about different cloud computing providers, like Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Today I want to describe Windows Azure more and show you how to use the Windows Azure CTP and how to publish a "Hello World" app in the "cloud".

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25 Years Microsoft Press – 2 books for free

Microsoft Press celebrates his 25th anniversary and offer you two books. These offers expire on February 25, 2009. If you want to download the books you have to register to the MS Press Book Connection Newsletter: Microsoft® Visual C#® 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! Windows Vista Resource Kit, Second Edition

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If you create a relationship between to SQL tables, you get many benefits. The most important benefit (for me) is the integrity of your data. Besides the database-world there is another huge benefit: The relationships are used by many O/R mappers to create a structured object model. You could create such realtionships via different dialogs …

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