Microsoft’s story feels pretty sound. Desktop, Laptop/Netbook, Mobile and the cloud.
Direct Links
- App Fabric Download Windows Azure platform AppFabric provides common building blocks required by .NET applications when extending their functionality to the cloud, and specifically, the Windows Azure platform.
- Microsoft Dallas Use the Dallas Service Explorer to visually construct REST API queries and preview the content in XML, ATOM, RAW (for blob and real-time content), or in Table view and you can use Power Pivot with the data.
- Reactive Extensions for .NET
- Check out Matt’s multi part series. Including a Twitter client
- Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx)
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SQL Server Modeling
Renamed from Oslo. Modeling has a home in a shipping Microsoft product. It was also shown during the first keynote and how it can play in Cloud development.
- Check out the write up
- Download the CTP
- Read Doug Purdy’s blog (owner of Modeling) and On DSLs and a few other things
- PowerShell. “Demoed” quickly during the keynote for deploying to the Azure Cloud. PowerShell is the automation platform for Windows.
- Visual studio 2010 has a huge number of features for developers. Intellitrace, Architecture Explorer, Azure templates, Parallel debugging and more



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