Today we released the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February release which introduces updates to the Caching service, and a new and improved Silverlight based portal experience. This release builds on the prior Caching CTP October release, and introduces the following improvements: Ability to choose from a set of available cache sizes and provision a cache of the chosen size Support for upgrading or downgrading between caches from the available sizes dynamically based on your requirements Added client...

This would hopefully be a multi-part series showing some tricks to enable claims-based-security in Silverlight 4.0. Silverlight 5.0 would have a much better story around claim-based-security as mentioned here. In this first post, I’ll give you a high level overview of the solution. The main idea is to use the ‘WCF Routing Service’ in the [...] Blog Post by: zamd

The Survival Guide is a collection of helpful resources for getting up to speed with running with Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) in your solutions. The content is organized in the way that simplifies … More » Blog Post by: Valery Mizonov

In the previous post we discussed the 3 main concepts that make up Windows Azure AppFabric: 1. Middleware Services - pre-built services that provide valuable capabilities developers can use when developing applications. This reduces the time and complexity when building the application, and allows the developer to concentrate on the core application logic. 2. Building Composite Applications - capabilities that enable you to assemble, deploy, and manage a composite application that is made up of several...

The problem The setup of Windows Azure  AppFabric SDK adds the elements reported in the table below to the configuration contained in the the machine.config files under the following folders: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Config <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configuration> ... <system.serviceModel> <extensions> <behaviorExtensions> … More » Blog...