ARCast.TV - An Overview of MVC4WPF - Part 2 of 3(blogs.msdn.com)

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Brian H. Prince meets with Stephen Giffin and John Hannah about their new open source project called MVC4WPF. It is a new framework and guidance package that helps you quickly build enterprise WPF applications. They have seen a dramatic improvement in productivity, ability to leverage entry level developers, and a massive reduction in development costs. The framework helps your developers follow the right path and do the right thing. read more...

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ARCast.TV Special - An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3 featuri(blogs.msdn.com)

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Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and in particular Silverlight. In this session we will step back from a detailed implementation technology and take a higher level look at Silverlight from the architect’s perspective. We will discuss the types of applications where Silverlight makes sense and some scenarios where Silverlight may not be the appropriate technology. We will also delve into some of the architectural decisions that the architect must consider when writing applications for this platform and where some of the tradeoffs may lie. - Tim Heuer read more...

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Connecting PHP to Microsoft Excel using LINQ with PHP(blogs.msdn.com)

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Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability. Check out episode 22 PHP LINQ Fest. Peter interviews Maarten Balliauw (Microsoft ASP.NET MVP) from Real Domen about two PHP-related open-source projects he has been working on. read more...

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Windows Azure goes live in January(blogs.msdn.com)

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At Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in November it was announced that the Windows Azure Platform will go live in January but it will be free for subscribers until February. This article by Kathleen Richards for Visual Studio Magazine gives a good overview of the offering, where it stands now and a peek ahead into it’s future. read more...

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Pick your Windows Azure Operating System version!(blogs.msdn.com)

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The Windows Azure Platform is currently based on a modified version of Windows Server 2008 R2. The Windows Azure philosophy is for Microsoft to take care of all the infrastructure requirements and let you focus on solving your business problem. One requirement that has had customers curious is how we will handle the issue of operating system versioning, in other words, do they automatically have to have their application run under a recently upgraded or patched version of the OS without their approval? Now we have an answer. With the addition of a new Service Configuration file parameter osVersion, you can now specify the version of the OS that you want your application to run under. read more...

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Can’t Touch This…Silverlight Touch API Sample Download(blogs.msdn.com)

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Multitouch support in Windows 7 allows applications to blur the lines between computers and the real world. Touch-optimized applications entice users to touch the objects on the screen, drag them across the screen, rotate and resize them, and flick them across the screen by using their fingers. Multitouch requires an environment (platform and operating system, hosting application such as a browser) that can propagate the touch input to an individual application, such as your Silverlight-based application. read more...

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Windows 7 Optimizations on Solid State Drives(blogs.msdn.com)

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Be default, Windows 7 disables Superfetch, ReadyBoost, as well as boot and application launch prefetching on Solid State Drives (SSD) with good random read, random write and flush performance. These technologies were all designed to improve performance on traditional hard disk drives (HDD), where random read performance could easily be a major bottleneck. Because of the design changes, Windows 7 powered PCs with SSDs run fast. To understand how these design changes improve overall system performance, read this team blog post by the Windows 7 product group. read more...

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Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 virtual imag(blogs.msdn.com)

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Here’s a great way to get up-to-speed with Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010…download the complete virtual images and get started! Choose one of the three virtualization options below: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Hyper-V) Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Windows [7] Virtual PC) Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Virtual PC 2007 SP1) Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate provides an integrated environment of tools and server infrastructure that simplifies the entire application development process. read more...

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Office 2010 Developer Training Kit Released!(blogs.msdn.com)

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Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is a broadly extensible platform for building information worker productivity solutions and developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 makes this easy. The Office 2010 Developer Training Kit content is designed to help developers get started building solutions, from add-ins to full featured Office Business Applications (OBAs), using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 as the core platform. read more...

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Architecture Journal – Issue 22 – Business Intelligence Architecture(blogs.msdn.com)

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Several articles dealing with the planning, architecture and design of business intelligence solutions tha tleverage a SOA principles. read more...

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Securing REST-Based Services with Access Control Service(blogs.msdn.com)

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The Access Control Service (ACS), part of Windows Azure platform AppFabric, makes it easy to secure REST-based services using a simple set of standard protocols. In addition to enabling secure calls to REST-based services from any client, the ACS uniquely makes it possible to secure calls from client-side script, and enables federation scenarios with REST-based services. This webcast will provide a tour of ACS features and demonstrate scenarios where the ACS can be employed to secure REST-based WCF services and other web resources. You’ll learn how to configure ACS, learn how to request a token from the ACS, and learn how applications and services can authorize access based on the ACS token. read more...

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Real World Software + Services Architecture: The Winchester Ballistics(blogs.msdn.com)

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You've no doubt heard by now a lot about software plus services as an architectural concept, but how many real world examples can you say you've seen? On this episode of ARCast, Denny Boynton sits down with Derek Jerrel from Winchester Ammunition and Jim McPherson and Jeff Fattic from Quilogy to discuss their innovative use of Silverlight, WPF and Surface to build a highly advanced and extremely cool ballistics calculator leveraging the power and agility of an S+S architectural model. read more...

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Migrating Applications to Windows Azure(blogs.msdn.com)

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Now that Windows Azure is released, many of you will be evaluating Microsoft’s cloud platform for both new development projects as well as targeting the Azure Platform for migration of existing .NET applications. Bob Familiar recently took his music web site which was based on SQL Server 2005, ADO.NET, WCF SOAP Services and Silverlight 2 and migrated the code base to Windows Azure, SQL Azure, WCF RESTful services and Silverlight 3 using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Expression Blend 3. He captured his experience and shares it with us in a 6 part blog article. read more...

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http://blogs.msdn.com/innov8showcase/archive/2009/12/17/azure-lessons-(blogs.msdn.com)

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Check out this Channel 9 Azure-focused episode with Jim Zimmerman, CTO of Thuzi where he talks about building their Facebook application for Outback Steakhouse that was hosted in Windows Azure. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/Azure-Lessons-Learned-Outback-Steakhouse-Facebook-App/ read more...

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Moving to SQL Azure? It's Easy(blogs.msdn.com)

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Don’t take my word for it. Take a look at this blog post by David Ramel of 1105 Media Inc. In it David explains how easy it was to migrate an existing SQL Server database into SQL Azure running on Windows Azure and get an on-premise application talking to database in the cloud using the new database migration Script Wizard. David also incorporated data from Dallas, the new Microsoft public data repository in the cloud. read more...

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Adventure works database for SQL Azure(blogs.msdn.com)

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It is a delight to announce the availability of the Adventure-Works Community Sample Databases for SQL Azure. You can download the scripts and data files from CodePlex... read more...

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