The Windows Azure Service Bus Relay enables applications hosted anywhere with an internet connection to securely call back to applications hosted in your own datacenter behind a firewall. The CRM 2011 SDK offers documentation on how to use the Windows Azure Service Bus Relay from CRM Online. Here's a link to the documentation that describes the scenario:
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This video demonstrates a working example of the end to end scenario and walks you through the configuration.
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NOTE: The video shows my WCF service running in a console application for simplicity. Many will want to host their services in IIS. See IIS hosting of Wcf Services with Servicebus Endpoints for more details.
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You can now share your private data with groups of your friends, coworkers, and those outside your work organization courtesy of a new free product, Glassboard, from social media company Sepia Labs. Users can connect with each other's Windows Phone, Android, or iPhone. Soon users can connect from within a Silverlight part in Office 365.
Walker Fenton and Brian Reischl of Sepial Labs talk with ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about why they chose Windows Azure to connect to the various phones. Brian explains how they used WCF using REST on Windows Azure. They do a demo of each phone using Azure to process messages across phone platforms using notifications. They show how you can sharie photos, videos, and locations.
For more information about the technologies used by Sepia Labs, see:
Glassboard is an app for sharing privately with groups (or 'boards' as we call them). With Glassboard you can message a group of people quickly & easily (looks like a text on your phone but it isn't!), share photos and videos, and even show your location when appropriate. Everything within a board is _completely_ private. Only the board chair can invite you to a board, and there is no way for someone not invited to search or discover a board. It's your own private corner of the Internet.
Sepia Labs is a spinoff from NewsGator, from SharePoint partner of Social Sites.
If you have ever had to try and interop between WCF and other web services stacks like WebLogic , WebSphere Apache or others you know that it can be a painful experience. The WCF team has just published a cool new project that will make your life much easier. On this episode I'm joined by Nathan Anderson tester from the WCF team who will give us a tour of the new WCF Express Interop Bindings project.
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In this episode, Howard Dierking demonstrates a really cool sample that allows you to build a Message Handler that will automatically apply ETags. Plus, at the end, we have a bonus life-hacking talk about how a busy PM uses Scrum Pig to take control.
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In this episode of The Full Stack, Jesse and Jon hook up client-server data synchronization and discuss some interesting problems they run into along the way.
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Years ago I did one of my first podcasts with Jeff Richter, and later I took his advanced threading class, which was fantastic. Jeff really helped me to understand threads, thread pools, and why async is so important when building server side code. In this episode, Jeff joins me to bring you up to speed on threads, threading, and async so you can build really fast and efficient server apps.
Last time on AppFabric.tv Dustin Metzgar showed us the first part of the story of how he solved a performance mystery with WCF. In this episode we finish the story as we look even deeper into threads, threadpools and async operations in WCF.
Dustin Metzgar works on our performance team and recently wrote a very cool blog post about a performance problem he was troubleshooting with WCF. In this episode, Dustin shares the problem and solution, as well as the tools and techniques he uses to figure these types of things out.
Jon and Jesse recap a lot of changes they've been making:
Oh, and a basic version of the app is now up on the App Store! Look for the Who Is That app (under Jesse Liberty's name).
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The Exception Handling Application Block (EHAB) helps developers create a consistent strategy for processing exceptions. Now it can be used in Silverlight applications.
The centralized exception management functionality is configured as a set of poicies that can be defined in an external configuiration file or programmtically.
We are using the StockTrader V2 Reference Implementation to show how the Exception Handling Application Block addresses various Silverlight-specific scenarios, including how to apply exception handling to asynchronous services.
Download the Silverlight Integration Pack or get the Exception Handling Application Block automatically added to your Silverlight project via NuGet.
See also: Other demos, videos, Enterprise Library 5.0 Silverlight Integration Pack home page