http://blogs.msdn.com/mfussell/archive/tags/PDC2008/default.aspxTags: PDC2008en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/mfussell/archive/2008/10/28/what-is-windows-server-dublin.aspxWed, 29 Oct 2008 03:54:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9021331mfussell1http://blogs.msdn.com/mfussell/comments/9021331.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/mfussell/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9021331<P>Here are a links to a couple of videos about Dublin.&nbsp;</P> <P>Ron Jacobs has posted a video of a Dublin PDC Hands on Labs (HOL) on Endpoint TV <A class="" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Endpoint/endpointtv-PDC-Hands-On-Lab-Cast-Lab-6-Deploy-and-Manage-Workflow-Services/" mce_href="http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Endpoint/endpointtv-PDC-Hands-On-Lab-Cast-Lab-6-Deploy-and-Manage-Workflow-Services/">here</A>. This provides an introduction to deploying WCF and WF applications to Dublin, managing .NET workflows running on the server and showing some of the configuration support. This is a good first intro and of course there are many other features that I will cover in blog entries over the next few weeks.</P> <P>Need more on Dublin? <A class="" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs/" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs/">John Bristowe</A>&nbsp;and the esteemed Canadian crew, pulled some of the product team together (myself, Miguel Susffalich and John Taylor) for an impromtu <A class="" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs/archive/2008/10/28/canucks-at-pdc-day-1-hanging-out-with-the-dublin-boys.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs/archive/2008/10/28/canucks-at-pdc-day-1-hanging-out-with-the-dublin-boys.aspx">interview</A> here at PDC on what Dublin provides for developers and why you should be interested in its capabilites if you currently develop, or plan to develop, WCF and WF applications and put them into production within your company. </P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9021331" width="1" height="1">PDC2008WFWCFDublinhttp://blogs.msdn.com/mfussell/archive/2008/10/27/back-up-for-air-at-pdc2008-with-dublin.aspxTue, 28 Oct 2008 02:07:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9019485mfussell0http://blogs.msdn.com/mfussell/comments/9019485.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/mfussell/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9019485<P>I haven't written in my blog for a long time, well over two years. Sometimes you just loose the momentum! Now I am at PDC which is like a big school reunion and better still can talk about the product that I have been working on for the last two years, <A class="" title=Dublin href="http://www.microsoft.com/net/Dublin.aspx" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/net/Dublin.aspx">Dublin</A>. Dublin is the set of server capabilities to make Windows a server for WCF and WF applications and integrated into the Application Server role in Windows Server.</P> <P>Ok, so what does Dublin do for me? In the same way the the Visual Studio Expressions suite crossed the web designer to the developer divide, by allowing these two roles to be closely integrated, Dublin crosses the developer to the IT pro divide by enabling apps created by developers to be handed off to IT managers, who then have a common set of tools to manage these WCF and WF business apps. Dublin provides a configured hosting environment with databases for persistence state and tracking, enterprise services for reliability, scale-out and monitoring, along with a set of tools integrated into IIS Manager that enable you to manage your WCF and WF applications.I will post some screen shots and go more in depth to the feature set that Dublin provides over the next fews days.</P> <P mce_keep="true">So if you are around at PDC, come and find me under the big Dublin balloon for some tech talk.</P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9019485" width="1" height="1">PDC2008