Innovation Showcase

Technorati Tags: Azure , Architecture Ever since we announced Windows Azure there has been speculation about how reliable it will be and how we will insure that your application will continue to operate reliably in the face of changes to your application...

Ever looking for a new, generic, way to incorporate asynchronous programming capabilities into your applications? Ever wish you could just write a LINQ query over your application events and just create reaction methods for when an event occurs? Well...

Learn how to deliver Web video with the quality and reliability of HDTV over HTTP.  Dramatically increase viewing times and lower costs using this scalable online video delivery technology. High Definition Web video has long been promised, but plagued...

In his blog, Zhiming Xue discussed how to choose which of the three Windows 7 editions that is best for you – Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate. He also mentioned several additional versions that may be more suitable...

Today users can access rich information and services while they are browsing a site; it’s not a trivial task to expose this content to the same users when they are not on that site. For instance the action of displaying a map, given a text address, requires...

Need a good tool to get your site compatible for IE8? Check out the features in Expression Web Super Preview for Internet Explorer: Speeds the essential task of debugging your web sites for cross-browser compatibility . With Expression Web SuperPreview...

ARCast.TV - How to Improve Testability with a Modular Architecture Mario Cardinal and Aaron Kowall discuss how to easily test, in an autonomous way, an application conceived with modular abstractions such as the "layer". Mario and Aaron discuss...

ARCast.TV - Re-architecting Applications for Internationalization   Achim Ruopp , an internationalization specialist and a former program manager at Microsoft, discusses the typical process of and efforts involved in internationalizing existing applications...

Each month through June 2010, we’ll bring you a 90-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs. October 27, 2009 at 2:00pm – 3:30pm EST Title: An Architect’s perspective...

Each month through June 2010, we’ll bring you a 90-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs. October 28, 2009 at 2:00pm – 3:30pm EST Title: Deploying Windows 7...

Each month through June 2010, we’ll bring you a 90-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs. October 27, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Title:   An Architect...

Mithun Dhar has posted the download links for the September Silverlight-3 FireStarter on-line virtual event. Check them out here: Silverlight-3 FireStarter Download Links: Session Titles Speaker Kickoff ( large , small...

Keith Pijanowski gives us his insights into the many flavors of Cloud Computing… “Word choice is important when giving a new idea a name. However, sometimes an idea is so big and far reaching that no collection of words can accurately describe it. The...

ARCast.TV Special - Jim Wilt on Increasing Solution Adoption Success Using Architectural Skills ARCast.TV Special - Jim Wilt on Increasing Solution Adoption Success Using Architectural Skills The Architect Innovation Cafe presents Jim Wilt on Using Architectural...

Do you enjoy the beautiful pictures that Bing presents daily? Ever interested to display these pictures automatically on your Windows 7 computer? If the answer is yes, read on… To set beautiful Bing pictures as your Windows 7 desktop background, download...

Technorati Tags: SQL Azure , Architecture , Community SQL Azure will go live next month at PDC on November 17th. Since SQL Azure is accessed using the standard TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol used by SQL Server most existing application clients and...

In this blog post Keith Pijanowski describe Cloud Computing in terms of Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).   To guide this discussion he answers the following questions for each...

Technorati Tags: SQL Azure , Architecture SQL Azure (and the Windows Azure Platform) goes live next month. With the latest Community Technical Preview (CTP) SQL Azure is now feature-complete. In other words all the features that will be present at the...

Enterprise Architects, Solutions Architects, Infrastructure Architects, and Business Analysts all work hand-in-hand to deliver value to the enterprise. In this interview, Joe Shirey talks to Matt Hessinger about the dynamics of each of these groups and...

Ian Lamont writes for The Industry Standard . “If you were a betting man (or woman), who do you think would win in a social media face-off between the two most widely used desktop/laptop operating systems? In one corner you have OS X, Apple's svelte and...

Light up your applications on Windows 7!   GET Windows 7 API Pack Windows 7 SDK Windows 7 Application Compatibility Cookbook JOIN Channel 9 Windows 7 community, including video tutorials LEARN Download the Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers Windows...

Light up your web site with Internet Explorer 8! GET ASP.NET Controls for IE8, including code Microsoft Expression Web Superpreview for Internet Explorer visual debugging tool that makes it easier to migrate site from IE6 to IE8 JOIN Join the Channel...

Wondering how to make your Silverlight 3 applications perform better?  Is the weight of heavy graphics bringing you down? Caching visual elements as bitmaps allows you to take advantage of hardware accelaration. Once an object or tree of objects...

Ever wanted to build your own IE8 Web Slice or Accelerator but didn’t know what was involved or how how to get started? Check-out these two short ArCast.TV episodes that will show you just how easy it really is: Web Slices: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows...

IIS Media Services 3.0 has been released and is now available as a free download for Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2!  IIS Media Services, an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform, delivers true HD (720p+) streaming and provides real-time...