After a long period of inactivity, decided to get active again on the blogosphere. This time however, it’s not (just) going to be on BizTalk , (I’ve lately been through some “Identity crisis”… so) you will see me talking about how to protect your identity, get help through “Identity Federation”, asserting your identity, using “Proxies” etc. Also thought of creating a new Identity for myself here , instead of trying to regain my lost identity...

The February 2011 update of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes several updates and bug fixes for the hands-on labs.   Most of the updates were focused on supporting the new Windows Azure AppFabric February CTP and the new portal experience for AppFabric Caching, Access Control, and the Service Bus.  The specific content that was [...] Blog Post by: Wade

Prior to the release of the Windows Azure 1.3 SDK, Web roles hosted your application in IIS Hosted Web Core (HWC).  While there were certainly ways to extend HWC, for the most part you were stuck with a single application bound to no more than a single HTTP or HTTPS endpoint.  This model enabled only [...] Blog Post by: Wade

If you take a good look at the latest Release Notes for the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February Release – or if you jump directly into the new SDK and try to programmatically configure the Caching client – you’ll quickly discover that the DataCacheSecurity class now requires a System.Security.SecureString instead of a string. The reason [...] Blog Post by: Wade

I’m excited to tell you about the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February release.  There are a number of enhancements and improvements coming with this release, including: New Silverlight-based LABS portal, bringing consistency with the production Windows Azure portal. Ability to select either a 128MB or 256MB cache size. Ability to dynamically upgrade or downgrade your [...] Blog Post by: Wade