Sam Gentile's Blog

Windows Azure/Azure Service Framework (including .NET Services)/BizTalk

• David Pallmann has released 2.1 of Azure Storage Explorer with the new feature of modifying what is in storage including  create or delete blob containers, blob items, queues, queue messages, tables, and table items.
• Microsoft has released a new set of white papers for Microsoft .NET Services that work with the Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2008 (March CTP) - Download from here
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 5/11/2009+
• Adding an https endpoint to a Windows Azure Web Role
• Matt Milner informs that the BizTalk Server 2009 Virtual Labs are now available

ASP.NET AJAX/ASP.NET MVC

• From Betrand, "A new version of the AJAX Control Toolkit is now available for download from the CodePlex website. It contains three new controls - HTMLEditor, ComboBox, ColorPicker."
• Another ASP.NET MVC book out there to sample; ASP.NET MVC: From Webforms to MVC, this time from the view of a traditional Webforms developer.Chapter 1 is available.

Entity Framework

• Update on the Entity Framework in .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010
• Sneak Preview: Persistence Ignorance and POCO in Entity Framework 4.0
• Sneak Preview: Model First in the Entity Framework 4.0
• Sneak Preview: Deferred Loading in the Entity Framework 4.0

REST

• Arnon shares his opinions with REST - Good, Bad and Ugly