Azure .NET Services July CTP Info

Today the Azure Services team announced the upcoming July CTP, to be deployed on July 7. There will be a maintenance downtime from 9am-3pm PST.

Additionally, there are breaking changes. Specifically:

• Data in queues and routers will not be backed up prior to the upgrade
• The Workflow service is being removed.

For specific details, see the Azure .NET Services blog post.

Pragmatic Patterns for Architects: Recordings Available

Microsoft's Strategy and Architecture Council recently presented a three-part series called Pragmatic Patterns for Architects:

• Patterns for Moving to the Cloud
• Building Silverlight and WPF applications with Prism
• Patterns for Parallel Computing

The LiveMeeting recordings, as well as the slide decks, are now available at http://blogs.msdn.com/sac/pages/council-2009q2.aspx

.NET Services Talk @ Cloud Computing Group Tommorrow

I'll be giving a talk at the mid atlantic cloud computing users group tommorrow, we will cover Access Control, Service Bus and Workflow.

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Software Plus Services in Azure .NET Services: Integration through ACS, ServiceBus and Workflow

Event Code: 138684

Registation: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=138684

6/18/2009

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Welcome Time: 6:00 PM

Time Zone: Eastern

Microsoft Corporation

12012 Sunset Hills Rd.

Microsoft Technology Center

Reston, VA 20190

USA

General Event Information

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Featured Product/Topic: .NET Framework

Recommended Audiences: Engagement Managers, Developers, Architects

The presentation is around using the .NET Services Tier to enable security federation, service discovery and routing as well as how to take advantage of workflows in the cloud to perform activity based operations.

Best Practices for Handling Change in Your WCF Applications

The fifth and final article in my series on WCF is now available on DevX. The article explores the strategies and best practices you can employ to insulate your WCF applications and service consumers from that enemy of stability known as change.

Atlanta Area Azure Training

Please join us at the Microsoft Atlanta area (Alpharetta) campus on July 7th, 2009, as we present a free day of Microsoft-sponsored training on the Microsoft Azure platform and Live Services. No prior experience with Azure or Live Services is required.
For more information and to sign-up , please visit http://www.rdacorp.com/getting_started/events.html.