Updated Release: Extending SQL Azure to Microsoft Applications (Apr 25, 2011)

This walkthrough demonstrates how easy it is to extend, share, and integrate SQL Azure data with Microsoft applications via an OData service. The video starts by covering the benefits of using SQL Azure, and then it briefly reviews an existing ASP.NET application that was built to support this series of videos. The video goes on to cover how to enable the application to expose some of the data via an OData service, and finally, it shows how a variety of different client applications, such as Excel, Javascript, and Windows Phone 7, can interact with this OData service. The video concludes by referring users to additional resources that offer further support.

Pre-requisites
• Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express
• ASP.NET MVC3
• Windows Azure SDK for Visual Studio
• Windows Azure Emulator
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, including emulation software
• OData Client Library for Windows Phone 7
• Microsoft Excel with PowerPivot Add-In
• A pre-existing SQL Azure account
• Link to Walkthrough by Steve Yi