To make an activity's display name readonly, it isn't enough to use the ReadOnlyAttribute on the DisplayName. In order to do this, create a custom PropertyValueEditor that displays a string in a text block, then declare an editor attribute on the "DisplayName...

In the May CTP of Service Bus, we’ve added a brand-new set of cloud-based, message-oriented-middleware technologies including reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe messaging. Last week I posted the Introduction to Service Bus Queues...

Today, the Service Bus team is happy to announce a couple of initiatives to make it even easier to get started learning and using the Service Bus: the AppFabric Service Bus NuGet Package and the Service Bus Samples CodePlex Site . Both our Samples and...

Last week at the TechEd North America conference we made some exciting announcements regarding the Windows Azure AppFabric May CTP and the upcoming June CTP . Following are several resource that can help you learn more about these announcements and...

As a fraud prevention measure, we have recently implemented a verification process for newly purchased Windows Azure platform accounts. When a new customer first logs on to the Windows Azure platform developer portal, the customer must provide us with...

We just released two additional videos and the accompanying code samples to our Windows Azure AppFabric Learning Series available on CodePlex. The new videos and code samples are: Name Link to Sample Code Link to Video Windows...

The new Service Bus Durable Messaging features introduced with the May 2011 CTP are really cool, and what's even better than a slew of new messaging features added to the AppFabric is the fact that many of them are accessible from clients on any platform...

As announced at TechEd North America we have released PowerShell cmdlets which wrap the management API of Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control service. Read about this in the blog post by Vittorio Bertocci . This is a very useful addition to to...

In the new May CTP of Service Bus, we’re adding a brand-new set of cloud-based, message-oriented-middleware technologies including reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe messaging. We’ll walk through the full set of capabilities...

As promised, we have released new videos as part of our Windows Azure AppFabric Learning Series available on CodePlex. The new videos cover the new capabilities that enable advanced pub/sub messaging in Service Bus which have been released as CTP,...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . The operation invoker is the last element in the WCF runtime which is invoked before the user code (service...

Today at the TechEd conference we announced that we have released enhancements to Service Bus as part of the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP May release, and the upcoming release of the AppFabric Developer Tools and Application Manager as part of the Windows...

A lot of partners and customers we talk to are telling us that they think of Service Bus as one of the key differentiators of the Windows Azure platform because it enables customers to build and interconnect applications that reflect the reality of where...