Sharepoint 2010 and Claims-Based Identity

Posted By: Vittorio | Nov 24th @ 2:18 PM | Comments: 1

Sharepoint 2010 and Claims-Based&nbsp;Identity

When it comes to identity management intensive applications, it's hard to top Sharepoint. Whether you are signing in a portal, accessing a document or using a webpart for reaching out to external web services, your identity is going to be the factor that drives it all. Vittorio went to visit Venky Veeraraghavan, Program Manager Lead in the Sharepoint team, to discuss how Sharepoint deals with identity challenges. Venky gives a fantastic explanation of how claims-based identity and Windows…[more

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Tags: IdElement, Identity Access, Sharepoint, Windows Identity Foundation

Reactive Extensions API in depth: Primitives

Posted By: J.Van.Gogh | Nov 24th @ 9:57 AM | Comments: 6

Reactive Extensions API in depth:&nbsp;Primitives

Jeff describes the primitives of IObservable.[more

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Tags: Reactive Extensions, Reactive Framework, Rx

Hanselminutes on 9 - Guided Tour inside the Windows Azure Cloud with Patrick Yantz

Posted By: Glucose | Nov 23rd @ 11:15 PM | Comments: 8

Hanselminutes on 9 - Guided Tour inside the Windows Azure Cloud with Patrick&nbsp;Yantz

Scott at PDC09 in Los Angeles this week and got a great opportunity to get a guided tour of a piece of the Windows Azure Cloud from Patrick Yantz, a Cloud Architect with Data Center Services. You may think it's a Cloud Container, but it's not! [more

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Tags: Azure, Azure Platform, HanselminutesOn9, PDC09, PDC2009

Fishbowl for Facebook

Posted By: LarryLarsen | Nov 23rd @ 3:12 PM | Comments: 1

Fishbowl for Facebook is a WPF application created by Microsoft that takes advantage of some of the new Windows 7 features like jumplists and multitouch. Working like a WPF version of the Facebook site, you can do most of the same things you would do through a browser like status and comments, browse friend photos or upload your own, but with added functionality like dragging and dropping in new photos.

Download it for yourself at http://www.fishbowlclient.com/.

Tags: Facebook, WPF

Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010

Posted By: funkyonex | Nov 23rd @ 9:07 AM | Comments: 1

Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS&nbsp;2010

This time I interview a good friend of mine, Boris Scholl, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development. Boris shows off the new Business Data Connectivity designer in Visual Studio 2010 and how it allows you to describe data coming from multiple data sources and how to work with them in SharePoint. He builds a master/detail association across entities coming from separate data sources (a database and a service) and demonstrates how the entities can be displayed and edited...[more

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Tags: Sharepoint, Sharepoint 2010 Beta, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010

10-4 Episode 36: Windows Server AppFabric and Workflow Services Lab

Posted By: rojacobs | Nov 23rd @ 8:37 AM | Comments: 0

10-4 Episode 36: Windows Server AppFabric and Workflow Services&nbsp;Lab

Have you heard about the new Windows Server AppFabric? In this episode we take you through the new Beta 2 version of the Introduction to Workflow Services Hands On Lab in .NET 4 which now includes a look at portions of Windows Server Application Fabric.

Look for this lab in the next update to the Visual Studio 2010 training kit and Visual Studio 2010 learning center on Channel 9.

Tags: 10-4, WF endpoint screencasts, WF4

Corrinne Yu: Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team Microsoft

Posted By: tina10 | Nov 23rd @ 7:34 AM | Comments: 17

Corrinne Yu: Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team&nbsp;Microsoft

Corrinne Yu is Principal Engine Architect at Halo Team Microsoft. She is a 1st Party Halo Lead. She is the first and only female Technical Lead of the whole Microsoft Game Studios. With almost 20 years of programming experience in large companies, she has programmed games and engines since the beginning of the 3D game industry and was an early pioneer of game engine development. She has worked as Director of Technology of several 3D game companies like ION Storm and Gearbox and was Lead…[more

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Tags: Corrinne Yu, Halo

Reactive Extensions API in depth: Until and WaitUntil

Posted By: J.Van.Gogh | Nov 20th @ 3:51 PM | Comments: 6

Reactive Extensions API in depth: Until and&nbsp;WaitUntil

Now that we have explained "Marble Diagrams", we use this representation to describe what Rx's Until and WaitUntil behavior is. [more

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Tags: Reactive Extensions, Reactive Framework, Rx

Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 - Out of Browser Evolves

Posted By: Charles | Nov 19th @ 8:19 PM | Comments: 14

Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 - Out of Browser&nbsp;Evolves

Joe Stegman, Director of Program Management on the Silverlight team, joins us to discuss Silverlight 4's Out of Browser improvements (OOB means you can run Silverlight applications on the desktop, outside of, well, the browser...). Of note, you can now interop with COM objects in SL4's OOB. We also touch on the the future of Silverlight and clearly define the distinctions/differences between Silverlight and…[more

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Tags: Out of Browser, PDC09, Silverlight, Silverlight 4