Azure Support » Dallas http://www.azuresupport.com Windows Azure Tutorial Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:32:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 What is ‘Dallas’ [FAQ] http://www.azuresupport.com/2009/12/faq-what-is-dallas/ http://www.azuresupport.com/2009/12/faq-what-is-dallas/#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:20:25 +0000 azuresupport http://www.azuresupport.com/?p=54 Dallas is an information services platform for distribution and consumption of data. The data could be real time data services, large unstructured datasets or any type of data. Data vendors can sign up to publish distribute their data on Dallas and developers can browse,discover and purchase the data on Dallas.

Dallas is available as a CTP from December 2009. As of December 19 2009 the main data offerings on Dallas were  Associated Press, Citysearch, DATA.gov, infoUSA.com, NASA, National Geographic, the United Nations, and Weather Central.

]]> http://www.azuresupport.com/2009/12/faq-what-is-dallas/feed/ 0 [News] Dallas Announced http://www.azuresupport.com/2009/11/dallas-data-services/ http://www.azuresupport.com/2009/11/dallas-data-services/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:51:02 +0000 azuresupport http://www.azuresupport.com/?p=14 At PDC Microsoft announced the CTP of  ‘Dallas‘  which is essentially a marketplace for data. Data vendors can use Dallas to market their datasets and developers can explore and purchase datasets to integrate into their applications. Dallas is on the PinPoint platform which is a broad marketplace for Windows technology vendors.
Dallas is based on REST and developers can use proxy C# proxy classes to interrogate the datasets.

Currently available datasets available through Dallas are the  Associated Press, Citysearch, DATA.gov, infoUSA.com, NASA, National Geographic, the United Nations, and Weather Central.

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