Recently, in October 2010, at our Professional Developers Conference (PDC) we made some exciting roadmap announcements regarding Windows Azure AppFabric, and we have already gotten very positive feedback regarding this roadmap from both customers and analysts ( Gartner Names Windows Azure AppFabric "A Strategic Core of Microsoft's Cloud Platform" ). As result of these announcements we wanted to have a series of blog posts that will give a refreshed introduction to the Windows Azure...

For a change an English language podcast :-)   In this podcast Maurice de Beijer speaks with Mads Kristensen about web tooling in Visual Studio 2012. Besides the standard build in tooling for web developer they also talk about Web Essentials 2012, the plugin Mads develops in his spare time to give web developers even more features and capabilities. Links: Blog: http://madskristensen.net/ Web Essentials 2012: http://vswebessentials.com/ Web Developer Checklist: http://webdevchecklist.com/asp...

The call for sessions is now open for SoCal Codecamp IV. If you’ve never been to one, Codecamp is a great way to see sessions from the community, for free. Have an idea or a session you’d like to present? Submit it! Want to go? Visit SoCalCodeCamp.com to register. I missed the last one, and felt guilty about it, so I just submitted the sessions below. Hope to see you there! Windows Azure Overview Cloud technologies are transformational, and one of those rare paradigm shifts that we don’t see often...

As I blogged about here , CodeCamp Fullerton is this weekend. I signed up for 3 sessions. My friend, author and Azure MVP David Pallmann will also be doing Azure session there (as well as many others). The way the organizers have laid things out on Saturday is a thing of beauty if you’re an Azure person. You can basically camp out in room UH246 at 10:00am and get the “Brian and David” show all day long. Saturday - Room UH 246: 10:00am - Brian - Windows Azure Overview 12:15pm - Brian - Windows Azure...

In this episode, Michael McKeown describes the security model used in Windows Server AppFabric, which spans Windows Security Groups and SQL Server Database Roles....( read more ) Blog Post by: The .NET Endpoint : AppFabric