Before using the scheduler, you just need to know a little about Windows Azure Mobile Services. The below paragraph summarizes the features.

Mobile Services on azure allows you to add structured storage, user authentication and push notifications to your Android, iOS, HTML, Windows Store, or Windows Phone 8 apps. Have a look at the below list of features. You can visit mobile services website if you are a beginner.

If you love writing javascript, you may even like to explore a new scripting language which is becoming popular these days known as "TypeScript". You can write TypeScript just like you write javascript.  You can compile TypeScript code to generate output javascript which is clean, maintainable and cross browser compatible.

In this post, we shall create two Windows Virtual Machines in Azure, set up the end points for communication, deploy a web application and finally enable the load balancing mechanism to distribute the load.

To start with, we shall first create a virtual machine on azure. If you do not have a Windows Azure account yet, subscribe for a free trial here.

In this post, have explained how to create a proof of concept to demonstrate how media files can be uploaded to the azure storage using the Media Services SDK. Just before writing code, it is very important to understand the basics of media services.  If you are interested only in code, scroll down to the end of this post.

The year 2012 was really fun and was a prosperous year in my personal & professional life. Had wrote many articles, created many videos, participated in User Group Meetings, delivered sessions, visited places, met Industry experts and the best of all, me and my wife blessed with a cute little angel baby girl.

Talking about my views & passion, I always wanted to update the layout of my blog not because it was ugly but it was outdated and heavy. I wanted it to be light, usable and responsive to some extent. It took me around two months to put the things in place. Finally I am done customizing the layout of my blog. I almost had to rewrite the entire page stuff. I hardly wrote something on my blog in the last two months. I felt bad, used to curse myself for not being able to write any thing for so long. However, I am happy now with the new layout and now it feels so fresh & decent and the blog is all set to rock in year 2013.

There are few posts on the web which makes Windows 8 Installation and understanding the concepts easier. Here are five of them which I found simple and interesting.

Some time back, I created a small Windows 8 Metro Application (Windows Store App) which can access the Windows Picture Library and display thumbnails of all the pictures available in it. This post should be of a little help for developers who just started exploring Metro Apps for Windows 8.

I've created a detailed 30 minutes video covering many aspects (Code, UI, Concepts) of building a Metro Application for the Picture library Thumbnails. Go ahead and watch it.