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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.

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:

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.

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.

http://www.soabooks.com/net

I’m really looking forward to presenting at TechEd North America 2010 on June 9 2010, and am honored to be co-presenting with John deVadoss (Microsoft, Director, Patterns and Practices) and Christoph Schittko (Microsoft, Global Application Strategist). John and I worked together on the SOA-Manifesto working group, Christoph and I have known each other for years, and we are all co-authors of “SOA with .NET and Windows Azure”, which will also be launching at TechEd (more on this later).

We will be presenting session ASI202 on Wednesday morning, “Real-World SOA with Microsoft .NET and Windows Azure”.

Although I’m late posting this, we as a team have been working VERY hard on this. It should be really good/informative, please join us if you’re going to be there.

It is my honor and privilege to host my friend Michele Leroux-Bustamante at this week’s special combined meeting of the San Diego .NET user group Connected Systems and Architecture SIGs.

If you’re doing anything with WCF (and if you read my blog odds are you must be!) and are in San Diego, then this is a not-to-be-missed event.

See you there!

Combined Connected Systems & Architecture SIG Meeting

Tuesday, May 11th

Michele Bustamante

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WCF Made Easy with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
and Windows Server AppFabric

Topic

WCF is a flexible and powerful platform for building service-oriented applications, and  with that flexibility comes some complexity.  As of .NET 4 - configuring, securing, hosting and managing WCF services has never been easier!  WCF 4 and Windows Server AppFabric come together to  help developers and IT administrators overcome the complexity. Come find out how much easier it is to configure WCF services in .NET 4 including alignment with the ASP.NET configuration model and a reduced configuration footprint. Also learn Windows Server AppFabric  features for the IT administrator, finally making it easier for IT administrators to easily access settings they care about such as security and throttling features; providing control over the hosting lifecycle of WCF services; and giving new visibility into faults, exceptions and tracing and diagnostics features to help you manage your service deployments in production un-intrusively.

Speaker

Michele Leroux Bustamante is Chief Architect at IDesign (architecture consulting and training, www.idesign.net) and Chief Security Architect at BiTKOO (providing authorization and identity management software, www.bitkoo.com ). She is also Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. Michele specializes in scalable and secure architecture design, federated identity, and cloud computing. Michele is a frequent conference presenter at technology conferences such as Tech Ed, PDC, Dev Connections, and NDC; and regularly publishes in several technology journals. Michele wrote the best-selling book Learning WCF - O'Reilly 2007 ( www.learningwcf.com) and is currently working on the second edition to be published in 2010. Visit her blog at www.michelelerouxbustamante.com , or follow her tweets @michelebusta.

If you read my blog then you have an interest in BizTalk Server, Windows Server AppFabric, Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric, WCF, etc… That means that you would also be really interested in the virtual launch event coming up on May 20th 2010 (8:30AM Pacific Time). Details are below, the event site is http://www.appinfrastructure.com.

See you there!

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Application Infrastructure: Cloud Benefits Delivered

http://www.appinfrastructure.com

Want to bring the benefits of the cloud to your current IT environment? Cloud computing offers a range of benefits, including elastic scale and never-before-seen applications. While you ponder your long-term investment in the cloud, you can harness a number of cloud benefits in your current IT environment now.

Join us on May 20 at 8:30 A.M. Pacific Time to learn how your current IT assets can harness some of the benefits of the cloud on-premises—and can readily connect to new applications and data running in the cloud. As part of the Virtual Launch Event, Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst Yefim Natis will discuss the latest trends and biggest questions facing the Application Infrastructure space. He will also speak about the role Application Infrastructure will play in helping businesses benefit from the cloud.  Plus, you’ll hear some exciting product announcements and a keynote from Abhay Parasnis, GM of Application Server Group at Microsoft.  Parasnis will discuss the latest Microsoft investments in the Application Infrastructure space aimed at delivering on-demand scalability, highly available applications, a new level of connectivity, and more. Save the date!