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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...

Anyone using the .NET Service Bus should take a good look at the SocketShifter project started by Rob Blackwell and Richard Prodger from AWS in the UK. AWS stands for Active Web Solutions , not for the "other" AWS. The full project is up on Codeplex ...

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. ...

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...

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...

.NET Service Bus Reverse Web Proxy: Click here to download the source Using the application/service built from the sample linked at the top of this post you can host a publicly discoverable and accessible website or Web service from your Windows...

XML-RPC for WCF Download here I had updated my WCF XML-RPC stack for PDC’08 but never got around to post it (either too busy or too lazy when not busy). The updated source code is attached to this post. Contrary to the code that I’ve posted a...

Short answer: You can’t. There is a range of breaking protocol changes between the December bits and the March bits. Your app won’t work until you upgrade (uninstall/install) to the March 2009 CTP client bits and/or SDK .

[If this text looks vaguely familiar you’ve read the HttpQueueSample Readme doc from the SDK. Good job!] Here is the Service Bus Queue REST protocol. I apologize if this is a bit dry, but I want to give you the bare protocol facts first and will follow...

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 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...

… seht Euch mal die Wa an, wie die Wa ta kann. Auf der Mauer auf der Lauer sitzt ‘ne kleine Wa! . It’s a German children’s song. The song starts out with “… sitzt ‘ne kleine Wanze” (bedbug) and with each verse you leave off a letter: Wanz, Wan, Wa...

With the March CTP, the .NET Service Bus namespace root for each project is taking on a new form that we had already pre-announced into the PDC’08 documentation and that I’ve talked about at PDC and other occasions. Any project’s root URI is now, depending...

Our deployment team reports that they’re done with the last touches on our new release, that the servers are happily humming with the new bits, and that the new SDK is posted. The .NET Services Developer Center has been updated as well. You can get the...

[Update 2010-08-25: Wade Wegner now shows a solution on his blog ] We’ve been getting some questions along the lines of “I am hosting a service as xyz.svc in IIS and have changed the config to use on of the Service Bus bindings , but the service never...

The MSDN Developer Center for .NET Services is the first stop to go to for technical information on the Service Bus, the Access Control Service and the Workflow Service. There quite a bit of documentation for “my” feature area, the .NET Service Bus...

In the sea of PDC 2008 announcements you may have missed the following two signficant developments: .NET Services for Java .NET Services for Ruby For the past 2 months our team has worked very closely with our partners at Schakra on the Java...

If you want to try out Windows Azure, or .NET Services, or SQL Services, you need an access code. How do you get one? By signing up here . "Yes, I did that, but I didn't get a code, yet!" We're onboarding new accounts slowly but steadily so that...

Our team's PDC talks are online on Channel 9: Azure Platform Overview (John & Dennis): http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB01/ .NET Services Architecture Overview (John & Dennis): http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB02/ .NET Access Control...

We've got a discussion forum up on MSDN where you can ask questions about Microsoft .NET Services (Service Bus, Workflow, Access Control): http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netservices/threads/

According to recent traffic studies, the BitTorrent protocol is now responsible for roughly half of all Internet traffic. That's a lot of sharing of personal photos, self-sung songs, and home videos. Half! Next to text messaging, Instant Messaging applications...

We’re thrilled to announce that the BizTalk Services “R12” Community Technology Preview (CTP) is now available for general use. “BizTalk Services” is the code-name for a platform-in-the-cloud offering from Microsoft. Currently in active development...

The BizTalk Services CTP will be switched from the "R11" to the "R12" release starting in about 30 minutes and we expect to have a 2 hour time window (1400h-1600h PT/2300h-0100h UTC) where existing service accounts are being rolled over to the new release...

Heads up: If things go as planned, the BizTalk Services cloud will be unavailable for a few hours during the day on Tuesday 7/15 (U.S. Pacific Time) since we're doing an update to the services and to the SDK. I will post an update with the exact time...

Didn't I write that I wanted to blog more this year? It's June, you see what came out of that. First things, first; I'm flying to Orlando tomorrow for TechEd. Looking back at what my conference schedule looked like up until 2 years ago, it's hard to...