The PDC ended over a week ago with me coming back home this Wednesday after a short vacation. On this blog post, I’ll try to summarize my main thoughts and conclusions from this year’s conference and also give a quick reminder regarding the upcoming SDP. Cloud Computing in Full Thrust In my opinion, the main […]
Well, the PDC has adjourned yesterday, and what a conference it was. Windows Azure launch, SilverLight 4 announcement and the Windows Server AppFabric application server are just some of the main issues which kept me occupied me the most. If you’d like, you can join Sasha and me at the SDP at our sessions on […]
In this PDC session, Nicholas Allen, Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation, reviewed various extensibility points in Windows Serer AppFabric workflow hosting . Hosting Workflows AppFabric ships with three out-of-the-box extensible workflow hosts: Workflow Driven Application – A host for workflows which are used as an execution engine and which do not require WCF interaction to […]
In this PDC session, DJ Park, C# IDE Program Manager, reviewed a lot of tips and tricks available in Visual-Studio 2010. Announcing CodeRush Xpress CodeRush Xpress is coming soon for Visual-Studio 2010, and will be free and downloadable. This release is scheduled soon after the release of Visual-Studio 2010. My Highlighted Features Below are the […]
In this PDC session, Mark Fussel, Program Manager at Microsoft, spoke of creating Workflow Services in .NET 4.0, and hosting and deploying them on Windows Server AppFabric. AppFabric AppFabric provides a set of features for hosting, managing and deploying workflow services: A set of runtime databases for persisting and monitoring the running instances. Persistence services. […]
In this PDC session, Ed Pinto, Program Manager at Microsoft, reviewed the many new additions to WCF 4.0. REST and WF services were not covered in this session, as they are covered in other sessions. WCF Configuration Default Endpoints – The WCF team took feedback in and decided to prefer “Convention over Configuration”. This means […]
In this PDC session, Clemens Vasters, Principal Technical Lead at Microsoft, showed how can an existing “regular” distributed enterprise application be migrated to the cloud. DinnerNow.NET The session revolved around the migrating the DinnerNow.NET sample application into the cloud. DinnerNow.net is a popular Microsoft sample illustrating IIS7, ASP.NET Ajax, LINQ, WCF, WF, WPF, PowerShell and […]
Well, the second day of the PDC is now over with only one more day to go. I can really start to feel the end… So what have we had today? Silverlight 4 announcement, several technical sessions, a free laptop and at the end – Geek Fest. Geek Fest was basically a party Microsoft arranged […]
In this PDC session, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Principal Software Architect at Microsoft, presented the caching functionality of Windows Server AppFabric, which replaces the project formerly known as “Velocity”. What is AppFabric Caching? AppFabric caching is an explicit, distributed in-memory cache for all kinds of application data. In a typical 3-tier application, one has three tiers: User/Presentation, […]
Today at the PDC, I attended two sessions on WF 4.0 – “Spice Up Your Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation 4” and “Windows Workflow Foundation 4 from the Inside Out”. I didn’t blog live about these sessions as their main punch was delivered via code examples and usage of WF designer which in my opinion […]