Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information, and services. F# 3.0, to ship in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, brings integrated support for Information Rich Programming to the .NET platform.

This video provides a demonstration of many of the features included in the CloudFormation template editor for Visual Studio, part of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio is an extension for Microsoft Visual Studio that makes it easier for developers to develop, debug, and deploy .NET applications using Amazon Web Services.

Cloud computing has brought immense computational power to the masses without any upfront investment. However, harnessing this power is not for the faint at heart since it can be really challenging, especially when lacking the appropriate tools. This talk will focus on how F# can be used to perform computations in a cloud environment, using distributed actors, Azure Hadoop and the cool F# newcomer, {m}brace. This will be a hands-on approach so bring your laptop with you!

Server-side JavaScript? On Windows Azure? Has hell frozen over? Come learn about how Azure is quickly turning into an open and lightweight cloud platform that supports a variety of runtimes: .NET, Java, PHP, and even Node.js!

This presentation provides a tour of new features, demos and a bunch of questions and answers for Windows Azure, the Microsoft cloud computing platform.