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Sep042010
DateSaturday, September 4, 2010 at 9:47AM

Great Azure Security Resources

If you have questions about security and Windows Azure, there’s a really good compilation of resources available here.

There’s a lot of great content there about all things security-related about Azure, and developing secure apps on, and leveraging, the Azure platform.

A particularly interesting read is Windows Azure Security Overview, which talks about security from the Azure-side (fabric controller, facilities, network, everything!). This is more than most people need to know, but if you ever wondered what goes on under the hood, you’ll find this of interest.

See the compilation page, read and learn more at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff934690.aspx.

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Sunday
Aug292010
DateSunday, August 29, 2010 at 9:11PM

SOA Manifesto – Now in 9 Languages!

I initially blogged about the SOA Manifesto that I was honored to be a part of almost a year ago. If you read through the signatories page, you’ll see some very prominent names (individuals and companies) and great comments supporting the work we did. We labored long and hard about the exact wording in English. The French looks good to me, but I’ll have to defer to others for the other languages.

Dutch is “coming soon”, but currently it is available at the site in:

  • English
  • Chinese
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Tamil

The languages may vary, but the value statements and principles are universal!

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Friday
Aug272010
DateFriday, August 27, 2010 at 7:48AM

A New Blog is Born: Windows Server AppFabric Customer Advisory Team

Microsoft’s Windows Server AppFabric Customer Advisory Team ( CAT) has launched a new blog focused on AppFabric (both Windows Server AppFabric and Azure AppFabric), WCF, WF, BizTalk, data modeling and StreamInsight. You can find the blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/appfabriccat/.

If you read my blog, then these are technologies that will be of interest to you, and this promises to be a good source of information.

Thanks to the CAT team for putting this together!

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Friday
Aug132010
DateFriday, August 13, 2010 at 10:28PM

San Diego: User Group Kinect Pizza Party at the Microsoft Store!!!

Perhaps you’re not a gamer, or perhaps you’ve just returned from a stint on the International Space Station or a prolonged exile deep underground, in which case you may be one of the very few people who have not yet heard of Kinect. It is Microsoft’s “game changing” (<groan> my words, apologies to the marketing folks) controller-less controller for the XBox 360, and it will be shipping this November. I had a chance to play with it at the San Diego Microsoft store, and within a few minutes had my credit card out and pre-ordered it and some games. It is VERY VERY cool.

Even though it will not be available until November, the San Diego .NET user group will be hosting a pizza party at the San Diego Microsoft store in September. Our user group members are invited, but we have very limited space. An email will be sent out within the week to our mailing list, and attendance will be on first-registered first-served basis. In addition, we will also be giving priority to people who are paid-up members of the group. If that’s not you, let me take this opportunity to remind you that it’s only $50/year to join, which gets you into all our meetings and opportunities for special events like this. Your membership dues help us fund the group and the meetings, we couldn’t do it without you! In addition, as a federally incorporated 501(c)3 non-profit organization, your dues are tax deductible. Meetings feature world-class speakers, and we also run several specialized SIGs in addition to the main meetings,  some 40-ish meetings per year…. all for only $50! Details of his event will NOT be posted on our Web site, the only way to get in is to follow the directions in the announcement email, and to register before we run out of available places. As stated, priority will be given to our paid-up supporting members.

If you’re a .NET developer in the San Diego area, please come join our group, and perhaps get a chance to attend this event.

I’d like to thank Andrea and the Microsoft store team for making this possible, it should be a lot of fun!

I’d also like to challenge *anyone* attending to a round of that river rafting game. If you’ve never done it, not to worry, I’ll show you how its done Smile

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Tuesday
Jun222010
DateTuesday, June 22, 2010 at 8:09AM

Missing your Azure AppFabric relay bindings?

I’ve had a couple of people ask me about this in the past week, so I’m thinking this may be a common problem some of you are seeing. I also see two of my colleagues have blogged about it, so I thought I’d help spread the word.

The problem is you install the Azure AppFabric SDK, but the Service Bus bindings we all know and love are not visible. The cause is .NET 4.0 has its own machine.config and the SDK installer does not make the appropriate entries. This will be fixed in the next coming-soon release of the AppFabric SDK.

In the interim, you can read Kent Weare’s post here, and Wade Wegner’s post here to get past this.

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Monday
Jun142010
DateMonday, June 14, 2010 at 6:40AM

TechEd Session Links

For those of you that attended the “Real World SOA with .NET and Windows Azure”  TechEd session that John deVadoss, Christoph Schittko and I did last week, I discussed the following reference architecture:

 

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I didn’t have time to do a demo/walkthrough during the session, but as I mentioned, recordings are available:

  • The first video, which focuses on the on-premise side in detail, is available here
  • The second video, which focuses on the Windows Azure AppFabric relay aspect and how to implement it, is available here (note that this is #1 of 3 there are three videos and corresponding blog posts in this series that cover bridging between on-premise BizTalk and Windows Azure)

Thanks all that attended, we had fun, and the feedback has been great.

For those that could not be there, it is available on-demand at http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica/ASI202.

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Tuesday
Jun082010
DateTuesday, June 8, 2010 at 8:38AM

Our new book SOA with .NET and Windows Azure is now available!

After a long effort, working with Thomas Erl and a very talented team of individuals, I finally got to hold a copy of the latest book I co-authored (and carry it around like a proud new father might) at TechEd in New Orleans.

It’s real, and it’s here now! It is in-stock at Amazon.

If you’re here at TechEd, John deVadoss, Christoph Schittko and myself (we are all part of the author team) will be doing our session tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8:00am. The session is “ASI202 - Real-World SOA with Microsoft .NET and Windows Azure”, so you can see the parallels with the book title. It is an architectural-level presentation that will focus on pain points, patterns and solutions. We will be in room 287.

We will also be doing a book signing tomorrow at the Addison-Wesley/Sams Publishing booth in the expo hall (booth #1942 and 1944) at 2:45 on Wednesday. The way things are set up this year, if you want to get a book signed, you need to go buy it beforehand at the bookstore (on the second floor) and then come and and see us. We’ll be there for 45 minutes or so.

 

SOA with .NET and Windows Azure

 

http://www.soabooks.com/net

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