3 Screens and The Cloud – PDC09

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)

• 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