AppFabric

AppFabric has this great new Dashboard that gives you insight into what is happening with your services and workflows. In this video, Senior Programming Writer Michael McKeown shows you what the Dashboard can do for you.

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…

Wondering what the big deal is about Workflow?  Wondering how you can use it to support a long running process in a web application? Want to see how Windows Server AppFabric can help? In this episode I'll show you the Contoso HR sample application which demonstrates a Workflow Service…

Interview with Principal Technical Lead Clemens Vasters and Principal Development Manager Murali Krishnaprasad (MK) regarding the May 2011 CTP release of Windows Azure AppFabric. We discuss new technologies such as Topics, Queues, Subscriptions and how this relates to doing async development in the…

After the previous episode on the WF Batch Job example went live many people asked me if there was a way to automatically start a batch job at system boot.  There is a way and I described it inthis blog post.  For more detail, check out this episode as I show you how to do it.Ron…

Windows Server AppFabric and WCF HTTP Services are a great combination and we've just made it easier for you to use them together. In this episode, I'll show you the new AppFabric WCF HTTP Service Template and how you can use it to build HTTP (REST) services that work great from any device and…

This is the news that so many have been waiting for: the new version of Access Control Service finally hit RTW stage! Stuart Kwan, Principal Group Program Manager on the Cloud Identity Platform team and recurrent guest on the IdElement, gives a four-minute introduction to the service and…

WCF DataServices are great. Windows Server AppFabric is great. And what do you get when you put these two great things together? You get a template for Visual Studio, including guidance on how you can monitor and route your WCF DataService with Windows Server…

This screencast shows how AppFabric Access Control (AC) can be used to provide identity federation, trust delegation, service authorization and integration with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), to control access to services based on Windows Azure. In the demo,…

Today we are exciting to announce the release of the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP which includes capabilities that make it easy for developers to build, deploy, manage and monitor multi-tier applications across web, business logic and database tiers as a single logical entity on the Windows…