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This blog reviews the current (January 2011) set of optio ns available for hosting existing .NET4 Workflow (WF) programs in Windows Azure and also provides a roadmap to the upcoming features that will further enhance support for hosting and monitoring the Workflow programs. The code snippets included...

I’ve always enjoyed building systems that utilized flexible messaging platforms. Before joining Microsoft, I was a member of a small ISV team that built a commercial .NET based ESB product (a rare creature in and of itself) that was primarily a WCF based messaging system. We had a number of capabilities...

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Abstract (updated version) Technical and commercial forces are causing Enterprise Architects to evaluate moving established on-premises applications into the cloud – the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform. This blog post will demonstrate that there are established application architectural patterns that...

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