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Mihail Mateev demonstrates how to use Windows Azure Blob Storage when you file your sources for spatial data.

Source: Infragistics Community

When talking about spatial data in the Windows Azure understand SQL Azure Spatial. Windows Azure presents other options when you file your sources for spatial data is to use Windows Azure Blob Storage. Due to the lack of good examples of this I decided to write this article.

Demo application is a Silverlight application for visualization of spatial data that uses data from the Windows Azure Blob Storage. This application uses Infragistics Silverlight XamMap component for visualization of spatial data.

In this walkthrough, Mihail Mateev shows how to create a LightSwitch application, using as data source WCF RIA Services.

Source: Mihail Mateev's Blog

LightSwitch is primarily targeted at developers who need to rapidly product business applications.
Visual Studio LightSwitch application could connect to a variety of data sources. For now it can connect to database servers, SharePoint Lists and WCF RIA Services .
Connection with WCF RIA Services requires some settings that are not "out of the box".

In this blog post, Mihail Mateev discusses the simulation of the Multi-Touch activity for the WP7 applications.

Source: Mihail Mateev's Blog

Currently, most computers do not have Multi-Touch Screens.
One very easy option is support for multiple mice. For this purpose you can find different solutions as Multimouse for Windows 7 or Multi-Touch Vista in codeplex. This article uses Multi-Touch Vista which is free and quite popular.