Architecture

In this episode, learn how Windows Azure IaaS can support a small or large SharePoint infrastructure, including our newly released SharePoint 2013 gallery image along with PowerShell to automate. David Tesar met with Paul Stubbs for Edge Show #60 to discuss the architecture and deployment…

Windows on ARM is a new member of the Windows family that builds on the foundation of Windows. These PCs will be built by PC manufacturers and based on unique and innovative hardware platforms provided by nVidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments. …

Dynamics Program Manager Peter Villadsen and Software Developer Gustavo Plancarte teach us about a new tool they've developed that translates X++ byte code into MSIL. We learn a lot of history along the way and gain insights into the process of taking X++ into the .NET…

How has Windows evolved, as a general purpose operating system and at the lowest levels, in Windows 7? Who better to talk to than Technical Fellow and Windows Kernel guru Mark Russinovich? Here, Mark enlightens us on the new kernel constructs in Windows 7 (and, yeah, we do wander up into user…

What is MVVM and why do people keep talking about it?  Karl Shifflett explains why its buzz worthy and why you should consider it as a design pattern for your application development.  Karl discusses improved unit testability (including UI testing), full separation and…

Chris Stevens is a software developer on the Windows kernel team working on the Windows boot environment. Windows 8 boots faster than any other version of Windows. Why? How? Chris begins with the fundamentals (so, if you don't know anything about the boot process or what actually happens when an OS…

This important session covers key considerations regarding overall architecture. David and Richard will compare and contrast Cloud-only vs. Unified Architecture using a few helpful diagrams and decision-making criteria, such as scale and feature set required. Finally, the session closes with a brief…

In this screencast, Clint Edmonson provides an introduction to software layering and layer diagrams using Visual Studio 2010.

Arun Kishan digs into the low level details of Windows 8's new application model. How has Process Lifetime Management (PLM) been reimagined in Windows 8? How does app suspension work, exactly, or, what happens when an app is no longer in the foreground and not closed? How much work…

This talk, which I recorded this week here at Microsoft campus in Redmond, is a slightly shortened version of a talk I did a few weeks ago at a conference, and which is a follow up to a blog post I wrote in January titled "Utopia ESB". You can find the slide deck on SkyDrive. The…