Azure - MIX Videos

Simplifying Distributed Access Control with Microsoft .NET Services

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear how the Access Control Service capabilities of .NET Services make it easy to add authorization to Web applications. See how to federate with Active Directory and Live Identity Services, request and parse security tokens, and perform session and state management.

Justin Smith
Justin Smith is a Senior Program Manager in the .NET Services team. His focus is on the ‘Access Control’ feature area in Azure Services Platform. An expert on building distributed applications, Justin was a former developer evangelist at Microsoft. He was also a former trainer and consultant at Wintellect where he helped develop the Windows Communication Foundation course for professional developers. Justin regularly speaks at industry and user-group events, including DevWeek and MSDN Code Camp. http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/authors/auth9610.aspx

What's New in Microsoft SQL Data Services

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear how SQL Data Services is evolving to provide rich relational database capabilities and how easy it is to take existing database applications and extend them to the cloud. Learn how SQL Data Services provides highly available and scalable relational database storage and capabilities while allowing you to leverage existing SQL Server knowledge, protocols, client libraries and tools. Hear about our plans to accelerate delivery of the key relational data capabilities you've asked for through a service endpoint that directly supports the T-SQL language and the Tabular Data Stream (TDS) communications protocol as well as our rich support for breadth and open source development languages, frameworks and client libraries.

Nigel Ellis
Nigel Ellis is responsible for the design, development, and release of SQL Data Services. His passion extends to all things data and ensuring the delivery of trustworthy, highly reliable data storage systems. Nigel joined Microsoft in 1993 where he initially focused on delivery of desktop database software and later as a founding member of the SQL Server 7.0 team where he’s been working since. Nigel likes to “roll up the sleeves” and jump into the trenches to get the job done. He’s particularly passionate about problems that most people would shy away from and has found his match in the Services space.

A Lap around Microsoft .NET Services

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come learn how to use .NET Services as building blocks for Web-based and hosted applications. Hear about the next generation of messaging, data, access control, and workflow services, and how developers can compose these .NET Services to create applications in the cloud and connect them with on-premises systems.

Todd Holmquist-Sutherland
John Shewchuk
John Shewchuk, a Microsoft Technical Fellow, leads the architecture and strategy teams focused on extending Microsoft’s .NET application development technologies to the Internet “cloud.” Shewchuk works in Microsoft’s Connected Systems Division (CSD) where he leads the technical strategy team. Over the last several years Shewchuk and his team have developed a wide range of Internet-based application messaging and identity federation technologies. Additionally, he was a co-founder of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) team and has been a key contributor to cross-industry interoperability initiatives. Working in conjunction with others on his team, Shewchuk developed Web services specifications and managed technical collaborations with IBM, Sun, SAP, and many others. He also has been a key leader and contributor to Microsoft’s efforts in federated identity, access control, and privacy. Previously, Shewchuk worked on Microsoft's development tools and runtimes and played a key role in the development of Visual Studio and .NET. Earlier in his career, he played a role in the development of many Internet technologies including stylesheets, browser behaviors and Web server controls. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/techfellow/Shewchuk/default.mspx

Using the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio to Build Cloud Services

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear how to use the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio to more easily create, build, debug, deploy, run and package scalable services on Windows Azure.

Jim Nakashima

Windows Azure Storage

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear about the highly available and massively scalable cloud storage service that is provided by Windows Azure. Learn how to create and access the different types of Windows Azure storage available, including blobs, tables, and queues.

Brad Calder
Brad Calder is Director/Architect of Windows Azure storage, which provides massively scalable, highly available and durable storage for the cloud. Before Microsoft he was a Professor at University of California, San Diego in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and a co-founder of three startup companies: Entropia Inc., TracePoint Inc., and Bit-Raker Inc. He received his undergraduate degrees from University of Washington and his graduate degree from University of Boulder, Colorado.

Connecting Applications across Networks with Microsoft .NET Services

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn how to use the Service Bus in .NET Services to more easily connect applications together over the Internet. See how to address difficult connectivity, security, and discoverability issues with the Service Bus, and hear about solutions for traversing network topology and overcoming integration issues that are caused by network, security and organizational boundaries.

Clemens Vasters
Clemens Vasters works as a Senior Technical Lead in the .NET Services team and is responsible for the 'Service Bus' feature area of Microsoft's Azure Services Platform. Before joining Microsoft some 2 1/2 years ago, Clemens spoke at many conferences, taught technology, and helped companies with software architecture in over 35 countries. Since joining Microsoft, Clemens has mostly been in 'stealth mode' and worked on the WCF, Oslo, and the Cloud Services Platform teams. http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB38/

See through the Clouds: Introduction to the Azure Services Platform

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear how Microsoft is building a new platform for applications, and learn about the key services that compose the platform as well as how to get started. Also hear Microsoft's roadmap for the Azure Services Platform and learn about new features that will be added.

James Conard

Overview of Windows Azure

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Curious about cloud computing? Come learn how to use Windows Azure to better address key challenges of running Internet-scale applications in the cloud. Also hear about the essential concepts of Windows Azure, including what's new.

Manuvir Das
Manuvir Das is a Director in the Windows Azure product group at Microsoft, where he leads the Developer Experience team. The role of this team is to translate the functionality provided by the service components of Windows Azure into a familiar, intuitive, and cohesive platform for service developers. Manuvir has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in Programming Languages. He is also an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington.

Live Framework and Mesh Services: Live Services for Developers

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn about the Live Framework including new and future services (such as Mesh Services), protocols, APIs, and tools which enable your Web, service, or client applications to access, store, and synchronize user data with Live Services, obtain audience analytics data, and more.

Ori Amiga

Building Web Applications with Windows Azure

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come learn how to use Windows Azure to build a scalable Web application and deploy it to the cloud.

Steve Marx
Steve Marx is a Technical Strategist on Windows Azure. He has worked at Microsoft for the past seven years, focusing on developers platforms and web technologies. He blogs at http://smarx.com.

Mesh-Enabled Web Applications

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come learn how to extend your existing Web applications and get them to live and breathe within Live Mesh. See how Mesh-enabled Web applications can be accessed from anywhere through a Web browser as well as run locally (and offline) on a user's desktop. Also see how Web applications can take full advantage of value-add Mesh services such as a dedicated sandbox, online and offline synchronized storage, automatic application updates, identity, application catalogue, social computing, and more.

Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie