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Friday, November 20, 2009 5:00 AM

Watch the PDC 2009 Keynotes

The keynote videos from day 1 and day 2 of PDC 2009 are now available. The day 1 keynote features Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia, and many other people coming on to present. This is the keynote talk where AppFabric was first announced. The day 2 keynote features
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:00 AM

More PDC Announcements: Azure Turning On, Azure AppFabric, and Dallas

On the cloud side there were also a variety of announcements coming from PDC as to future products and plans. Here's a few of them. The .Net Services offerings I've talked about several times in the past, currently the service bus and access control services,
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:30 AM

PDC Day 1 Announcement: AppFabric

One of the first day announcements at the PDC 2009 keynote was the unveiling of Windows Server AppFabric. Windows Server AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale, and manage web service applications that run inside
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:00 AM

Future of Moonlight

Taking a quick break from PDC, this prerecorded message is about Miguel de Icaza's comments last week on the future of Moonlight . Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight for Linux/X11. Cooperation between Microsoft and Novell was started
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Monday, November 16, 2009 5:00 AM

Related PDC Sessions for WCF and Workflow

Four talks each for WCF and WF, only one pair of which have conflicting times. Here are the WCF talks with their schedules: Accelerating Applications Using Windows HPC Server 2008 by Ming Xu in 502A on Tuesday at 1:30 PM Learn how to accelerate your applications
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Friday, November 13, 2009 5:00 AM

PDC 2009 Logistics

Here is how next week is going to work for articles while PDC is going on. I will try to continue to have things appear at the usual time in the morning although some days you may get things at a later time. On Monday I'll give a final rundown of related
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:00 AM

Bob Muglia Talks Distributed Systems and Silverlight

TechCrunch talked to Bob Muglia a few months ago covering cloud computing, distributed systems, and Silverlight programming. Bob is the president of the Server and Tools business here at Microsoft that produces all of these technologies. There's a long
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:00 AM

Interfaces Lack Data

Why does having two known types blow up for being conflicting data contract types if the types are two different interfaces? An interface only contains declarations for its members. The interface doesn't contain any data fields and any implementation
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:00 AM

Another .Net 4 Survey: Documentation

If you enjoy being surveyed (and who doesn't?), then the developer documentation teams would like to better understand how you use the help and documentation libraries , and also what you'd like to see improved. The survey covers what versions of Visual
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Monday, November 09, 2009 5:00 AM

One Week to PDC 2009

With one week to go before PDC starts, the times and rooms for all of the sessions are now available. While things are still subject to change, now would be a good time to make a preliminary plan for your week if you're going to be attending PDC. My talk
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Friday, November 06, 2009 5:00 AM

.Net Services November 2009 CTP

The .Net Services team has made a November 2009 CTP release of the SDK for their portion of the Azure Services Platform. As mentioned over the summer, .Net Services has pared down their work on routers, queues, and relays to focus on delivering the access
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 5:00 AM

Windows Web Services Samples

The Windows Web Services API is a native-code implementation of a subset of the SOAP web services support in WCF. This makes Windows Web Services useful when you want to build web services but need to use C or C++ instead of managed code and need to have
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 5:00 AM

Breaking Changes for WCF in .Net 4 Beta 2

Available for download is the list of breaking changes between beta 1 and beta 2 for WCF and WF . To save you some time, here's my condensed version of the list. When adding site or machine-level collections of behaviors, those behaviors will be merged
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:00 AM

Visual Studio and .Net 4 Beta 2 Survey

The Visual Studio team has set up a survey to collect additional feedback about the Beta 2 release . If you have something to say but haven't reported it on the Connect site or through other feedback channels, this would be a good opportunity to let your
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Monday, November 02, 2009 5:00 AM

Replacing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 with Beta 2

I recently helped someone out with replacing Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 Beta 1 with the newer Beta 2 release. Here are a few things that I had to learn along the way. I've done enough beta installations to know that having previous versions of the
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