Architecture SIG Meeting - Special Date/Time Thursday, January 20th (6 pm - 8:30 pm) Windows Azure in the Real World: Best Practices and Migration Tips with David Pallmann   Summary : Cloud computing with Windows Azure is exciting but it is vital to approach it correctly. In this talk, David Pallmann will share best practices and lessons learned from real-world use of Windows Azure, including application migration tips and stories from the trenches. If you want to succeed in your adoption of...

With the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 comes full support for IIS in web roles, giving your web roles the ability to access the full range of web service features available in IIS.  This provides a lot of powerful capabilities, some of which are outlined here. By default, the AppPool runs as the NetworkService.  Go ahead [...] Blog Post by: Wade

When the new Web Platform Installer (3.0) was released I had trouble finding Windows Server AppFabric.  The new UI can be a little confusing so to save you some trouble here are the instructions for installing Windows Server AppFabric. The Simple...( read more ) Blog Post by: The .NET Endpoint : AppFabric

After about three months in the field talking with ISV partners, enterprise developers and developers in general, I’ve noticed a couple of Azure misconceptions that seem to be recurring, so I thought I’d post something here for people to find to try to correct that. Myth #1: “Azure is from Microsoft so it’s something that only .NET developers can use” Actually, anything that runs in Windows will run on Azure. Microsoft’s goal is to provide the best cloud platform, PERIOD, regardless of your choice...

Remember the 4 tenets of SOA?  One of them is that Boundaries are explicit.  When somebody sends data to your service it is just like when you cross an international border into another country.  Just a couple of hours drive north of us in Redmond is the border crossing to Canada.  When you cross into Canada or back into the United States you have to stop your car and the border agents do their job.  Their job is to make sure that you have proper documentation and that you...