Microsoft Azure Marketplace
The Windows Azure Marketplace provides applications and data sets in many areas of interest from around the world. Easily bring useful data into Excel or your .NET application. Easily publish your own data for monthly subscription income in 88 countries or more. The Windows Azure Marketplace has something for everyone.
What you'll learn
The Windows Azure Marketplace provides a large global collection of cloud-scale data sets which can easily be consumed by Excel, PowerPivot, Tableau, LINQPad, or any OData capable application. This course introduces the wide variety of useful data sets and demonstrates easy access by non-technical users or .NET application developers. In addition, this course shows how to list your application in the Marketplace and how to publish your own data set, for free and/or for monthly subscription income, to a global audience with just a few steps.
Table of contents
- Introduction 3m
- Let's look at the wide variety of data sets available. 8m
- How to sign up for the Windows Azure Marketplace. 3m
- Subscribing to Data Sets 3m
- Some fun with viewing the information in the data sets. 7m
- Bringing data into Excel with CSV Files 1m
- Installing and Using the Excel Add-In 3m
- Danger! Danger! The Get External Data Button 2m
- Introducing Excel Power Pivot 0m
- Installing Power Pivot for Excel 2010 1m
- Setting up Power Pivot for Excel 2013 1m
- Bring Data into Excel Power Pivot 1m
- Bring Data into Tableau Public 1m
- Summary 1m
- Coding for the Windows Azure Data Marketplace 1m
- Understanding Fixed Query Datasets 2m
- Storing and Retrieving your Marketplace Credentials 4m
- ASP.NET MVC Controller Setup 4m
- Reviewing what we have done so far. 1m
- Coding the Microsoft Translator List Controller Action 1m
- Coding the Microsoft Translator Detect Controller Action 2m
- Coding the Microsoft Translator Translate Controller Action 3m
- Understanding Flexible Query Datasets 2m
- Setting up the WHO Application 3m
- The World Health Organization Class 4m
- GetWHODataSeriesById and GetWHODataSeriesByName 6m
- Available WHO Data Series 4m
- WHO Data Series Values 6m
- Enhancing the WHO Data Series List 8m
- Accessing the Windows Azure Data Marketplace with LINQPad 5m
- Summary 0m
About the author
Joe Kunk is a five-time Microsoft MVP in Visual Basic, a former On VB columnist for Visual Studio Magazine, three-time president of the Greater Lansing User Group for .NET, and application architect for Dewpoint, Inc. in Lansing, Michigan. He's been developing software for over 30 years and has worked in the education, government, financial, IT consulting, and manufacturing industries. Joe co-authored "Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls". He can be reached via email at [email protected]