Free Windows Azure Training

The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Windows Azure platform including: Windows Azure, SQL Azure and the Windows Azure AppFabric. This release includes several updates.

Here is what is new in the training kit:

• Updated all hands-on labs and demo scripts for Visual Studio 2010, the .NET Framework 4, and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio version 1.2 release
• Added a new hands-on lab titled "Introduction to the AppFabric Access Control Service (September 2010 Labs Release)"
• Added a new hands-on lab "Debugging Applications in Windows Azure"
• Added a new hands-on lab "Asynchronous Workload Handling"
• Added a new exercise to the "Deploying Applications in Windows Azure" hands-on lab to show how to use the new tools to directly deploy from Visual Studio 2010.
• Added a new exercise to the "Introduction to the AppFabric Service Bus" hands-on lab to show how to connect a WCF Service in IIS 7.5 to the Service Bus
• Updated the "Introduction to AppFabric Service Bus" hands-on lab based on feedback and split the lab into 2 parts
• All of the presentations have also been updated and refactored to provide content for a 3 day training workshop.
• Updated the training kit navigation pages to include a 3 day agenda, a change log, and an improved setup process for hands-on labs.