Oct 27 2008

Windows in the Cloud: Azure

The platform has just been announced by Ray Ozzie at PDC 2008.

From the official site: “The Azure Services Platform provides a wide range of internet services that can be consumed from both on-premises environments or the internet.”

Tim Anderson has written a good post on it.

Click here to read the official announcement.


Oct 25 2008

“Windows Strata” – name of the new Microsoft Cloud OS?

Check out this post by Long Zheng.


Oct 21 2008

Get a relative URI to your Web/WCF Service in Silverlight

Check out this post by Jordan Knight.


Oct 21 2008

New Web Services features in Silverlight 2 RTW

The Silverlight Web Services Team has posted a great article about the new features available in the RTW release.

The article gives details about:

  • SOAP Headers
  • SOAP Faults
  • Reusing existing types in “Add Service Reference”
  • Duplex Services
  • Support for ChannelFactory<T>

Oct 20 2008

Silverlight and the Enterprise

Click here to read this great article by Bart Czernicki.


Oct 18 2008

Data and Services with Silverlight 2 – TOC

John Papa has posted the Table of contents related to his new book “Data and Services with Silverlight 2” now available for pre-order on Amazon.


Oct 18 2008

SOAP and REST – both equally important to Sun

Check out the original post by Arun Gupta.


Oct 17 2008

Silverlight and Facebook

Pete Brown has posted two great articles about this topic:


Oct 12 2008

Silverlight 2 RC0 + ADO.NET Data Service + Entity Framework

Pietro Brambati has posted a great article about these topics (in italian).

Source code available!


Oct 6 2008

Delphi Prism: a plug-in for Visual Studio

As referenced by Delphi product manager Nick Hodges at SDN in Netherlands,  this new project will enable developers to use the Delphi language for building .NET 3.5 applications with technologies like WinForms, WFP, Silverlight, ASP.NET, WCF, LINQ.

More details can be found on the Marco Cantù’s blog.