The latest relase of the WIndows Azure platform, portal and tools (check here) includes support for one of the features announced at PDC last month: remote desktop access to your role instances. This feature is pretty easy to use and currently allows you to deploy a preconfigured VM with IIS where you can play with the OS. No real application needed!

Read More @ Marrten Balliaw Blog

MvcSiteMapProvider is, as the name implies, an ASP.NET MVC SiteMapProvider implementation for the ASP.NET MVC framework. Targeted at ASP.NET MVC 2, it provides sitemap XML functionality and interoperability with the classic ASP.NET sitemap controls, like the SiteMapPath control for rendering breadcrumbs and the Menu control.

Find out more here

Here is a quick jump-list of all 8 videos from the Silverlight Firestarter. This includes the keynote and the 7 sessions that are targeted at helping you build business applications with Silverlight. I included links to:

• Each video, with multiple online and offline downloadable video file formats
• Each speaker’s twitter ID (for those on Twitter) if you want to follow them
• UPDATE: Download the slides and code here

By popular request, we are collecting the updated slides and code samples from speakers and will post them on the event site soon, too.

Read more at the original blog from John Papa

There where great announcement from the PDC10 in Dublin, and thankfully David Northy posted a great summary on Technet.

Here is the link

Great article on pre-planned strategies using partitioning techniques for SQL Azure.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/scaling-out-with-sql-azure.aspx