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In the March 2009 CTP of the .NET Service Bus we’ve added two significant new capabilities, Routers and Queues, that also signal a change of how we’ve thinking about the Service Bus namespace, its capabilities and the road ahead. Before the M5 release...

In the previous post in this series I’ve discussed some of the foundational principles of the new Queue and Router features of the .NET Services Bus and the role that policies play in turning names in the namespace into messaging primitives. In this post...

In Parts 3 and 4 of this series I’ve explained the REST protocol for the .NET Service Bus Queue capability. If that looked a little too complicated for your taste and you’d rather clean with a simple API surface, here’s the API that you’ll prefer. ...

I'm on a tour through several countries right now and I'm talking to ISVs about the Windows Azure platform, its capabilities and the many opportunities ISVs have to transform the way they do business by moving to the cloud. The first day of the events...

There must be dozens of these things, but I didn’t find one online last week and I needed a tool like this to prep a part of my keynote demo in Poland last week – and thus I wrote one. It’s a simple file management utility that works with the Windows...

as I thumb through some people's code on Github, I see a fairly large number of "catch all" exception handling cases. It's difficult to blame folks for that, since there's generally (and sadly) very little discipline about exception contracts and exception...

I just got off the call with a customer and had a bit of a déjà vu from a meeting at the beginning of the week, so it looks like the misconception I'll explain here is a bit more common than I expected. In both cases, the folks I talked to, had the...

We get a ton of inquiries along the lines of “I want to program my firewall using IP ranges to allow outbound access only to my cloud-based apps”. If you (or the IT department) insist on doing this with Windows Azure, there is even a downloadable and...

Our team’s Development Manager MK (Murali Krishnaprasad) and me were interviewed by Michael Washam on May 2011 CTP release of Windows Azure AppFabric. We discuss new technologies such as Topics, Queues, Subscriptions and how this relates to doing async...

From //build in Anaheim

This session explains how to secure Service Bus using the Access Control Service. This is also an extension session for my session at BUILD , but watching the BUILD session is not a strict prerequisite.

UPDATED LINK: (tl;dr https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/wiki/Azure-service-bus ) Our friends over in the ASP.NET team are working on a very nice, lightweight web-browser eventing technology called SignalR . SignalR allows server-pushed events into...

After just over six years in the United States, our family is going to relocate back to Germany sometime in the second half of this month. Thanks to a lot of effort by our management and HR teams at Microsoft, including our VP Scott Guthrie, I will...

I’ll admit this is an odd topic for me to write about since my job pretty far away from that part of the world, but our PM team at MS is building a set of demos for which we need some semi-random and fun input data that doesn’t change all that rapidly...

Stefan Tilkov has several interesting remarks regarding our .NET Service Bus REST Queue Protocol that are worth addressing. Putting a password in the URI to get an identity token seems to expose information unnecessarily That’s an area where we...

After I’ve gone through the dry facts of the REST Queue Protocol in Part 3 of this series , here’s some code to look at. The code snippets are ripped from the HTTP Queue sample we’ve got in the .NET Services SDK and you can get the copy/paste ready code...

Building “hybrid” cloud applications where parts of an an app lives up in a cloud infrastructure and other parts of the infrastructure live at a hosting site, or a data center, or even in your house ought to be simple – especially in this day and age...

At the bottom of this post you’ll find the DinnerNow version that I’ve been using for my PDC09 talk. The video of that talk is now available at http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC18 and I recommend that you listen to the talk for context. The DinnerNow...

A question that is raised quite often in the context of “SOA” is that of how to deal with data. Specifically, people are increasingly interested in (and concerned about) appropriate caching strategies. What I see described in that context is often motivated...

As Kenny points out , the WCF Core Communications team put together a great set of resources with documentation and samples for writing custom channels for WCF .

(via http://windowscommunication.net ) The WCF Documentation Team has started to release biweekly (!) documentation updates. The updates are made available as a set of .CHM files. Mind that these files do not integrate directly into Visual Studio...

When I started blogging about 5 years ago ( I can’t remember exactly, but 2002 seems right) I would never have thought that my blog would end up on the MSDN Web Services home page. Now it did. Matt Powell, who’s been the blogger featured on the front...

Blogland is big. I am currently trying to get a bit of an overview what people out in blogland are doing with WCF. And while I've been doing that in addition to a bunch of very long and (due to the time difference between Redmond and Germany) very late...

Cool. I hadn't even seen this demo until now, even though we already have it for a while. Our technical evangelist Craig McMurtry posted the "Digital Fortress" demo, which is an implementation of the computer systems that play major roles in Dan Brown...

Here's the sample code from my CON423 session about selecting bindings here at TechEd.