Finally. I’ve been looking forward to this for a while now. Cracking open the VPC I created just for this, get VS2008 setup, re-familiarizing myself with SDS, and starting “Thriller”, I’m off on my adventure.
I decided the best way to get up to speed is to complete the Hands On Labs I started at PDC. You can get the same Azure Services Training kit at http://www.microsoft.com/azure/trainingkit.mspx. Unpacking everything and getting ready is pretty straight forward, and to be honest this is really good training, I’d suggest downloading and following along.
Jumping right into the Intro to SQL Data Services Lab things are fine until “unhandled exception (409) Conflict”. What the heck is that, double, triple, quadruple checking my code, yup, it’s fine. So, heading over to the SDS Forums a quick search returns the following post about how things have changed and Authorities are different now.
Now I’m up and running and got the first Exercise, “Using the REST Interface to Access SDS” complete. This is cool, can’t wait for the next one.
James
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