Entries tagged with interoperability - Channel 9

Windows Azure extended Interoperability presented at PDC09

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:48:11 GMT

During day one PDC09 keynote, Ray Ozzie highlighted Microsoft’s commitment to interoperability announcing additional technologies you can now use on Window Azure Tomcat (Java), memcached and MySQL.

We sat down with Steve Marx (Technical Strategist in the Window Azure team) and Vijay Rajagopalan (Principal Architect in the Interoperability team) to discuss these new possibilities.

If you want more detail and demos, refer to Steve Marx’s talk Building Java Applications with Windows Azure and Mohit Srivastava-Tushar Shanbhag's talk Developing PHP and MySQL Applications with Windows Azure.

Additional links:

Interoperability Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/
Windows Azure interoperability: www.windowsazure.com/interoperability

Meet the people behind the Window Azure SDK for PHP Maarten Balliauw

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:47:04 GMT

Maarten Balliauw from RealDolmen initiated the Windows Azure SDK for PHP a few months ago. Since then we have been working together to improve the project and we were very excited to announce at PDC09 the availability of version 1.0 of this SDK.

In this video, Maarten Balliauw and Vijay Rajagopalan from the Microsoft Interoperability Strategy teams discuss how this project came to life, and show demo of the SDK using the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse.

Additional links:

Windows Azure SDK for PHP
Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse
Interoperability Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/
Windows Azure interoperability: www.windowsazure.com/interoperability

Apache Stonehenge demoed at PDC09

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:47:00 GMT

A couple weeks ago, Microsoft was at ApacheCon. We reported the progress made on the Stonehenge project and presented the roadmap.

The goal of Stonehenge is to provide a public forum to test the interoperability of WS-* protocols on different vendor stacks and to build sample applications that could provide best practices and coding guidelines for better interoperability. The main sample application, StockTrader has been implemented on .NET (by Microsoft), PHP (by WSO2), WSAS JAVA stack (by WSO2), Metro (by SUN Microsystems), Spring (by SpringSource). The latest version of StockTrader uses the WS-Security and WS-Trust protocols for claims-based authentication scenarios. This allows the end-users to be authenticated through an independent Security Token Service (STS) that is trusted by the bank and to pass that token to the broker to process the transaction.

This week at PDC09, we were demoing the project. I went to see Kent Brown, product manager for WCF and asked him to give us an update and show a demo of the different StockTrader applications working together.

Watch the video till the end, Kent unveils the mystery on why the project was called Stonehenge!

Additional links:

Project page: Apache Stonehenge
Interoperability Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/

Using Windows Azure storage from Ruby

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:38:00 GMT

Johnny Halife, Partner Architect from Southworks started a few months ago a project aiming at providing a Windows Azure SDK for Ruby developers.

Still in beta, the SDK puts the Window Azure storage features ( table, storage & queues) very close to ruby developer.

Johnny was at PDC09, so we took the opportunity to talk and asked him to tell us more about this project and show a quick demo.

Additional links:

Johnny Halife’s blog: http://blogs.southworks.net/jhalife/
Download page for the Windows Azure SDK for Ruby: http://github.com/johnnyhalife/waz-storage
Project Documentation: http://waz-storage.heroku.com/rdoc/index.html
Windows Azure interoperability: www.windowsazure.com/interoperability
Interoperability Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/

Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK for PHP developers

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:44:00 GMT

The Windows Azure platform AppFabric (formerly called .NET Services) SDK for PHP is the third in a series, the first of which was released a year ago. Equivalent SDKs for Java and Ruby are also available and they have been updated to reflect the latest version of the AppFabric.

The AppFabric SDK for PHP is an open source project developed by Persistent Systems Ltd. and is available today on Codeplex: http://dotnetservicesphp.codeplex.com/. Microsoft is providing funding and architectural guidance for this project.

Sumit Chawla, Technical PM/Architect from the Microsoft Interoperability Team gives more details about the scenarios and present a quick demo of the SDK in action with a sample PHP application.

Additional ressources:

BING 404 error management kit for PHP

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:17:00 GMT

The Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP, which was debuted at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York today, helps developers better manage 404 errors by dynamically creating a customizable page that contains error messages and search results that are seeded with relevant keywords from Microsoft’s Bing search engine. This page ultimately helps web site visitors move past the missing page and find the information they need.

The Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP is a customizable PHP application that replaces the default error page on Microsoft IIS or Apache web servers with Bing search results that are based on keywords that have been derived from the URL requested by the user. The toolkit is available on Codeplex as an open source project, and is released under the Microsoft Public License.

Building PHP simple database applications for SQL Server, Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:59:00 GMT

The SQL CRUD Wizard for PHP is a wizard type application that can be used to generate a simple "Create, Read, Update, Delete" PHP application from a Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure database table. The generated PHP application supports paging, sorting and simple CSS customization. The generated PHP Application Code, generated by the PHP to SQL CRUD Wizard, includes logic for CRUD functionality between the PHP application and a SQL Server database instance on the web server.

Related links:

IE 9: Standards and Interoperability

Charles — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:22:00 GMT

The IE team is busy working on the next version of the world's most popular browser. IE 8 is the most widely used browser on Windows. IE 9 is currently in the oven and the IE team is ready to talk about what they're working on. Here, IE GM Dean Hachamovitch introduces some of the key advances his team is making and leads us through the halls of IE (literarally) to learn from the engineers who are building the future of IE. John Hrvatin and Kris Krueger talk to us about where they are with improvements in IE 9's interoperability and standards support.

Developing Windows Azure applications for PHP, Ruby, and Java, using Eclipse

Robert Hess — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:57:00 GMT

In our previous episode, Vijay Rajagopalan shared with us some of the details about a session he did at MIX09 which showed how Microsoft was providing support for building Silverlight applications using Eclipse on either Windows or even on other platforms as well.

In today’s episode Vijay shares with us the details regarding some new interoperability support which will similarly allow PHP developers to use the Eclipse IDE to develop for and deploy to Windows Azure, and provide Java developers with a new Windows Azure SDK, making their life much easier when they use Windows Azure storage services in particular. He’ll also describe how Microsoft is working to make sure that Eclipse itself is a great Windows 7 application and how it will enable developers to write applications which can take full advantage of special Windows 7 features.

And you can find more information about these interoperability tools here:

Using Eclipse to build Silverlight applications in Java, PHP and Ruby

Robert Hess — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:31:00 GMT

As hard as it might be to believe, not everybody is using Visual Studio as their development platform. Then what if they want to develop a Silverlight application? Is notepad their only option?

Fortunately not. Vijay Rajagopalan did a session at MIX09 earlier this year which shows how we've been working hard to provide interoperability support for Eclipse users that not only allows them to use Eclipse as their development environment, but also allows them to integrate their Silverlight applications into PHP, Ruby, or Java.

And if you want more details, you can watch Vijay's MIX09 session here:

Build Applications on the Microsoft Platform Using Exlipse, Java, Ruby, and PHP!

And for additional information and downloads, you might be interested in the following:

Interoperability @ Microsoft

Instant Messaging Interoperability extended through XMPP (Jabber)

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:16:00 GMT

Today, Microsoft announced a new XMPP Gateway for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 that enables interoperability with Cisco Jabber/XMPP and Google Talk, along with new licensing options for Office Communications Server customers to connect with AOL and Windows Live (read the details of the announcement).
To get more details about how all of this works we sat down with Ashima Singhal (Senior Product Manager) and Albert Kooiman (Senior Product Manager) from the Communication Server team to discuss the news focusing on Instant Messaging (IM) interoperability between different networks.

Albert explains the architecture to enable the bridges between the different IM services including AOL, Live, Yahoo! and GTalk (XMPP) as well as with IBM Sametime and Cisco Jabber. Then Ashima shows a demo of various public IM clients communicating and sharing presence/status information with Office Communicator.

Additional links:

Unified Communications: Uniting Communication Across Different Networks
Communication Server team blog:
New PIC Licensing and released XMPP Gateway
Interoperability @ Microsoft team blog:
Instant Messaging Interoperability extended through XMPP and new partnerships
Download link for the XMPP gateway:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141529

Introducing Simple API for Cloud Application Services

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:21:00 GMT

Zend Technologies today launched the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project , “a new open source initiative that allows developers to use common application services in the cloud, while enabling them to unlock value-added features available from individual providers.”
The initial goal of the project is to provide a set of programming interfaces for PHP developers to facilitate the development of applications that have basic cloud storage needs.

Vijay Rajagopalan, Principal Architect, from the Interoperability Technical Strategy team at Microsoft gives an overview of the Simple API for Cloud Application Services and details the initial contribution from Microsoft.

Related links:

Simple API for Cloud project site www.simplecloud.org.
Blog post: Microsoft, Zend and others announce Simple API for Cloud Application Services
July CTP of Windows Azure for PHP Released and support in Zend Framework
Windows Azure SDK for PHP

PHP Core Entwickler Pierre Joye im Interview - Teil 3 von 3

Jan Schenk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:45:00 GMT

Bits to Bite: Wir wollen doch nur spielen!
Pierre Joye, PHP Core Developer, im dritten und letzten Teil meiner Interviewserie. Jetzt reden wir mal Klartext. Oder besser gesagt, wir lassen Pierre spontan antworten, auf Stichwörter wie Windows7, Standards, Barcamps oder Yoga. Klingt komisch? Dann seht euch das Video an. Eine Art Rohrschach-Test für den Interviewpartner - das Beste, was die Spontaneität zu bieten hat, für euch.
Mehr zum Thema Interoperabilität und "Make Web, Not War" gibt es in meinem Blog unter http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche

Die vorangegangenen Interviews mit Pierre findet ihr hier:
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/kitano/PHP-Core-Entwickler-Pierre-Joye-im-Interview-Teil-1-von-3/
und hier:
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/kitano/PHP-Core-Entwickler-Pierre-Joye-im-Interview-Teil-2-von-3/

PHP Core Entwickler Pierre Joye im Interview - Teil 2 von 3

Jan Schenk — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:34:00 GMT

Pierre Joye, PHP Core Developer und Team Leader der PHP on Windows Developer Division, ist heute mein Interviewpartner. Er erzählt uns in diesem Video, was es mit dem Windows-Build von PHP 5.3 auf sich hat, und wie dieser so extrem stabil und schnell geworden ist. Außerdem plaudert Pierre ein wenig aus den Nähkästchen der PHP Core Developer und erlaubt uns einen Blick in die Communitystruktur der PHP Gemeinde.
Reinschauen lohnt sich, nicht nur für PHP Entwickler!
Einen dritten Teil gibt es auch noch, der kommt am Freitag in eure Heimkinos, natürlich auf Channel 9.
Mehr zum Thema Interoperabilität und "Make Web, Not War" gibt es in meinem Blog unter http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche

Consuming data over the web between PHP and .NET with REST and ADO.NET Data Services

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:32:00 GMT

Claudio Caldato, Senior Program Manager in the Interoperability Technical Strategy team and Pablo Castro, software architect of ADO.NET Data Services introduce a new project that bridges PHP and .NET: the Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services.

The PHP Toolkit is an open source project available on Codeplex at phpdataservices.codeplex.com. The goal is to make it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of the ADO.NET Data Services (ADO.NET Data Services offer a simple way to expose any sort of data in a RESTful way, more details here).

The video starts with a quick introduction and architecture white boarding session, followed by a demo.

Enjoy!

Additional resources:

Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services on Interoperability Labs & Bridges
Codeplex Project site: phpdataservices.codeplex.com
Blog post "A new bridge for PHP developers to .NET through REST: Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services"
ADO.NET Data Services on MSDN

Microsoft Contributes Code to the Linux Kernel

Nic Fillingham — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:45:00 GMT

Today Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux Community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree.

Sam Ramji, Senior Director of Platform Strategy, and Tom Hanrahan, Director of the Open Source Technology Center, discuss the release of this code under General Public License v2 and how both customer and community demand is driving better integration between Windows and Linux.

In the coming months we hope to feature more videos from the Open Source Technology Center engineers and developers. For now, as Sam mentions in the video, please let us know your thoughts on this announcement and also any suggestions you may have for future videos you would like to see from the Open Source Technology Center.

More info: http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/20/the-hyper-v-linux-integration-components.aspx

PressPass: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Jul09/07-20LinuxQA.mspx

(1/3) Imagine Cup 2009 Interoperability Award finalists: First place Proativa Team from Brazil

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:28:00 GMT

Proativa Team from Brazil won the Imagine Cup 2009 Interoperability Award(*) with their project ProLearning:

“ProLearning is designed to maximize the experience of distance learning. It’s composed by an immersive virtual reality environment, where students exchange experience and study together. This environment makes easier the interaction between tutor and pupils, so teachers can give proper feedback to students. ProLearning also offers a social network application, stimulating socialization and interaction of students and providing education process’ important aspects unavailable on distance learning environments, as the perception your pairs development and the ability of sharing your knowledge. Finally, ProLearning has the Mobile module, providing a personalized and automatically updated schedule for the student, indicating and alerting on proper time the activities to be done by the student on his distance learning courses. Optionally, the student is able to see the status of his friends in some particular activity, and realize a VoIP call to get some help. Templated SMS messages can also be sent in this module to friends and teachers.”

The video was made by the team to present their project.
Congratulation to Proativa!

(*) The Interoperability Award is designed to recognize the software application that best leverages out-of-the-box Microsoft technologies and blends them with other technologies to connect people, data, or diverse systems in a new way. The ability to build technical bridges and blend technologies from different vendors, including free and open source software, has great value in the industry.

(3/3) Imagine Cup 2009 Interoperability Award finalists: third place ECRAM from Jordan

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:27:00 GMT

ECRAM from Jordan got third place at the Imagine Cup 2009 Interoperability Award(*) with their project Elder Children Remote Application For Mobile:

“Elder Children Remote Application For Mobile(ECRAM) is an intelligent server/client application that uses any communication medium to control mobile from another one for : Making Call Locate Position Sending SMS Etc.”

The video was made by the team to present their project (no audio on this video).
Congratulation to ECRAM!

(*) The Interoperability Award is designed to recognize the software application that best leverages out-of-the-box Microsoft technologies and blends them with other technologies to connect people, data, or diverse systems in a new way. The ability to build technical bridges and blend technologies from different vendors, including free and open source software, has great value in the industry.

(2/3) Imagine Cup 2009 Interoperability Award finalists: Second place FteamS from Poland

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:27:00 GMT

Fteams from Poland got second at the Imagine Cup 2009 Interoperability Award(*) with their project eduko:

“Eduko is a system, which main goal is to ensure easy and universal education in the less developed parts of the world. New technologies and cheap ways of sending information, like SMS or MMS, enable teachers to reach those pupils for whom education was an unavailable privilege. What is more our virtual board system gives teacher opportunity to interact with pupils who are far away. The only boundary is his imagination.”

The video was made by the team to present their project.
Congratulation to Fteams!

(*) The Interoperability Award is designed to recognize the software application that best leverages out-of-the-box Microsoft technologies and blends them with other technologies to connect people, data, or diverse systems in a new way. The ability to build technical bridges and blend technologies from different vendors, including free and open source software, has great value in the industry.

Federation Identity Interoperability demo with Geneva Server & Sun Open SSO

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:50:00 GMT

Caleb Baker, Sr. SDET on the Federated Identity team, and Claudio Caldato from the Interoperability team present an interoperability scenario demo with Geneva Server and Sun’s OpenSSO Enterprise (demo presented at JavaOne 2009).

By the way the final name for "Geneva Server" has just been announced:

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)

To go deeper on the technical details check these 2 white papers:

Additional link:

Interop Vendor Alliance

Web Services Interoperability using WCF and Project Metro

Matthijs Hoekstra — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:20:00 GMT

In deze sessie zullen we behandelen hoe je in een multi-platform omgeving interoperability kunt bereiken tussen services gebouwd op het Microsoft platform en services die leven in de Java Enterprise wereld. We gebruiken Metro, het Sun Web Service Interoperability initiatief en Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). We demonstreren hoe je met behulp van Metro en WCF een Java web applicatie kunt laten praten met .Net services en vice versa. Verder zullen we ingaan op een aantal problemen waar je in de pratijk tegenaan zult lopen als je dit soort dingen gaat maken en hoe je deze oplost. We kijken tevens naar de mogelijkheden en onmogelijkheden van de huidige stand van de techniek.

Opmerking: De kwaliteit van de powerpoint/demo stream is helaas niet super goed, zodra we een betere kwaliteit hebben zetten we deze online. Excuus voor het ongemak.

Deze video is opgenomen tijdens de DevDays in Den Haag in juni 2009. DevDays is het grootste evenement op het vlak van softwareontwikkeling en -architectuur in Nederland. Duizenden development professionals bezoeken dit jaarlijkse evenement om in twee dagen weer volledig op de hoogte te zijn van alle ontwikkelingen op hun vakgebied.

Troubleshooting Windows SMB/SMB2 Issues

Darryl Welch — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:50:00 GMT

Hongwei Sun, Escalation Engineer, presented a session covering Debugging Tools for Windows that can be used for troubleshooting Windows at the 2009 File Sharing Windows Protocols Plug-fest. Hongwei answered windows debugging questions as well. Examples of how to use Windbg Windows SMB issues were explained. Tracing calls with Windows ETW and IDNA tracing were demonstrated. Provided a demonstration of a few resource kit tools commonly used for Windows debugging as well as some sysinternals tools (process monitor & filemon).

Peer Content (Branch) Caching and Retrieval Presentation

Darryl Welch — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:34:00 GMT

Randy Danielson, Senior Development Engineer Test, presented a discussion of the branch cache protocol documents that are new for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 at the 2009 File Sharing Windows Protocols Plug-fest and answered questions as well. The MS-PCCRC, MS-PCCRR, MS-PCHC and MS-PCCRTP documents cover these protocols and they are referenced by the MS-SMB2 protocol document. These new documents and the updates to the related documents are to be delivered in an upcoming Windows Protocol Document release.

File Access Services Systems Overview Presentation

Darryl Welch — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:25:00 GMT

Randy Haagens, Principal Architect, presented this new systems overview document and answered questions at the 2009 Active Directory Windows Protocols Plugfest. MS-FSSO, to be delivered in an upcoming Windows Protocol Document release, specifies how the protocols that comprise the offerings from Microsoft are used together to provide File Sharing Systems.

Server Message Block (SMB2.1) Drill-down

Darryl Welch — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:02:00 GMT

David Kruse, Pricipal Development Lead, presented a discussion of Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 updates to the MS-SMB2 protocol document including the 2.1 dialect at the 2009 File Sharing Windows Protocols Plugfest and answered questions as well. MS-SMB2 protocol document updates are to be delivered in an upcoming Windows Protocol Document release.