Below you will find links to information on both Windows Server AppFabric and Windows Azure AppFabric.
AppFabric Home Page:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/appfabric/default.aspx
Today we are exciting to announce the release of the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP which includes capabilities that make it easy for developers to build, deploy, manage and monitor multi-tier applications across web, business logic and database tiers as a single logical entity on the Windows Azure Platform.
In this episode , I'm joined by Karandeep Anand Group Program Manager for AppFabric Platform Services as we take a look at the exciting new capabilities featured in this CTP release.
Links
Interview with Principal Technical Lead Clemens Vasters and Principal Development Manager Murali Krishnaprasad (MK) regarding the May 2011 CTP release of Windows Azure AppFabric. We discuss new technologies such as Topics, Queues, Subscriptions and how this relates to doing async development in the cloud.
Resources:
Download for the May CTP
Michael Washam's Blog
Clemens Vasters Blog
This is the news that so many have been waiting for: the new version of Access Control Service finally hit RTW stage!
Stuart Kwan, Principal Group Program Manager on the Cloud Identity Platform team and recurrent guest on the IdElement, gives a four-minute introduction to the service and touches on the pricing model. For example, did you know that you can use ACS in production free of charge until at least January 2012? Jump to http://windows.azure.com and get started NOW!
If you want to know more about the new ACS, check out the announcements below and the other videos in this IdElement special:
Find out more about ACS:
ACS may be a PaaS service, but the programmatic route is not the only way to is heart: there are many situations in which developers, administrators and users interact directly with it.
The new release of the Access Control Service features a management portal you can use for managing your access control policies, from which identity providers you want to engage with (you have a choice of social providers, such as Windows Live ID, Facebook, Yahoo, Google and any OpenID or OAuth2 provider, and business providers, such as Active Directory Federation Services instances or any other WS-Federation/WS-Trust provider) to the transformation rules which decide what claims will be available to your application.
Furthermore, ACS now provides various features aimed at solving the home realm discovery problem (HDR): in practical terms, features which make it easy for developers and end users to always pick the right identity provider.
The man behind those features is Aaaron Smalser, Program Manager on the ACS team: in this 20-minutes interview Aaron discusses the user interaction aspects of the service from his unique perspective.
Have you ever tried to handle authentication for a mobile app, regardless of the platform? Every provider has its own protocol, which forces you to write and maintain a lot of different implementations. Writing protocol code on devices might not always be easy, and the fact that web protocols are moving targets which change every few months doesn't help.
Nobody knows this better than Caleb Baker, Senior Program Manager on the ACS team. Caleb has been working on making it real easy to outsource to ACS your mobile authentication woes: his solution is the base of the new ACS+WP7 hands-on lab in the Identity Developer Training Kit.
In this quick interview Caleb examines in details the authentication flow of his solution, from the Silverlight control which wraps most of the ACS integration to the way in which the phone app uses OAuth2 to secure calls to one OData service.
Caleb also worked on improving the way in which errors are handled in federated scenarios, and drove interesting features in ACS which can really help with that: thanks to his explanation here, you'll be able to use those features in just minutes. Folks, don't miss this interview!
If you want to know more about the new ACS, check out the announcements below and the other videos in this IdElement special
If you want to understand what the Access Control Service is really about, look no further: this is the interview you want to watch.
Justin Smith, Principal Program Manager Lead for the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service, worked on ACS from its very first version. From that vantage point, Justin looks back at the roots of the problem that ACS is meant to solve, retraces the trajectory that the service has been following from its 1.0 version to the new 2.0 release, and touches on some of the most important scenarios it addresses.
Want to know more about the new ACS? Check out the announcements below and the other videos in this IdElement special:
Windows Server AppFabric and WCF HTTP Services are a great combination and we've just made it easier for you to use them together. In this episode, I'll show you the new AppFabric WCF HTTP Service Template and how you can use it to build HTTP (REST) services that work great from any device and have terrific support for monitoring.
For more information see this blog post.
Ron Jacobs http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobsTwitter: @ronljacobs http://twitter.com/ronljacobs
Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershowIn this episode:
Show Links:
Windows Azure Diagnostics MonitorWindows Azure Programming Model WhitepaperWindows Azure StorageClient CloudBlob.DownloadToFile issue and workaroundBreaking Change in Windows Azure Guest OS 1.8 and 2.0Windows Azure AppFabric Caching interview with Karan AnandWindows Azure AppFabric LABSWindows Azure AppFabric SDK v2.0Caching SurveyCaching Demo
Ich hatte das Vergnügen auf der TechEd Europe 2010 in Berlin mit Clemens Vasters ein Interview zum Thema Windows Azure AppFabric zu machen. Der Ton ist ein wenig "Noisy" was daran liegt das ich mit einer normalen Fotokamera drauf gehalten habe und kein externes Mikro hatte, doch man versteht alles was Clemens sagt.
Gewettet haben wir auch noch, Köln gegen Borussia Mönchengladbach, tja, habe einen Kasten Bier verloren.
Viel Spaß beim reinschauen,
Dariusz
Many business applications have a significant code base responsible for back end business processes and activities that are both hard to write and even more challenging to manage. With Web Services being the primary way to expose and consume business logic, building services, coordinating services and implementing the long running processes across these services needs to get easier. The combination of Windows Workflow Foundation in Microsoft .NET 4 together with Windows Server AppFabric provides a new way to create these business processes, to coordinate services and to expose these workflows as services themselves.Dive into these 2 new, registration-free Ramp Up learning tracks and find out what's needed to build services and workflows and learn how to configure and manage these using Windows Server AppFabric.Developer Introduction to Windows Server AppFabric (Part 1): Hosting ServicesDeveloper Introduction to Windows Server AppFabric (Part 2): Caching Services
Wondering what the big deal is about Workflow? Wondering how you can use it to support a long running process in a web application? Want to see how Windows Server AppFabric can help?
In this episode I'll show you the Contoso HR sample application which demonstrates a Workflow Service that coordinates a job application process.
Download WF4 Workflow Services / AppFabric Sample - Contoso HR
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Ron Jacobs is a Sr. Technical Evangelist in the Microsoft Platform Evangelism group based at the company headquarters in Redmond Washington. Ron's evangelism is focused on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Since 1999, Ron has been a product and program manager on various Microsoft products including the .NET Framework, Windows Communication Foundation, and COM+. A top-rated conference speaker, author, and podcaster, Ron brings over 20 years of industry experience to his role of helping Microsoft customers and partners to build architecturally sound and secure applications.Stuff Ron recommends you check out
Windows Server AppFabric Product site
AppFabric team blog
Introduction to Windows Server AppFabric Whitepaper
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