New and Notable 399
Big day for Azure announcements
Windows Azure/Windows AppFabric/WCF
- February 2010 release of Windows Azure Tools and SDK - Blog announces the release the February 2010 (v1.1) release of the Tools and SDK today. This release supports a couple of new features in the platform, namely Windows Azure Drives and OS Versions.
- Beta Release of Windows Azure Drive - The announcement of beta release of Windows Azure Drive (announced as XDrive at PDC 2009).
- Windows Azure & SQL Azure announce General Availability - Today, Feb 1st 2010, Windows Azure and SQL Azure have announced general availability and have started charging customers. Windows Azure platform AppFabric continues to be free until April 2010.
- Windows Azure Platform Now Generally Available in 21 Countries - Full announcement and details for previous item
- Monitoring your WCF services with AppFabric - Pablo provides an introduction to Dublin's new built-in mechanism for monitoring the execution of the WCF services, all the events generated during the execution or the interaction with other services.
- Message: The Most Important WCF Class - Jesse posts on the central abstract class, Message, that represents all data sent and received
- Building a Basic Web Server Using WCF - Jesse continues by showing how you can build a very basic web server on top of WCF
- Returning Custom Formats from WCF WebHttp Services - part eight of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. This post covers:
- Using the new WCF WebHttp Services API for content negotiation
- Returning content with custom formats in addition to XML and JSON
- Configuring WCF WebHttp Services with the WebHttpEndpoint
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