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Windows 7 Commercial – More Happy Is Coming

The best presentation of the day which I attended was by Damian Edwards on ASP.NET MVC. Well structured and full of useful information. ASP.NET MVC is my current focus and that made the presentation even more interesting for me . Well done Damian.

I also attended a talk on BizSpark by Rog42 and Christian Longstaff. Biz Spark is a great program for startups and if you are one then you should definitely look at it. Where else can you get a suite of world class software at $100 which is payable in third year. I’m thinking that I might consider it for my company.

I also enjoyed Sharepoint presentation by Andrew Coates and Jeremy Thake. Their presentation was well synchronised and full of Sharepoint goodness. I’m not too much into Sharepoint but even I picked up points which I could use if god forbid I have to do any Sharepoint work again.

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TechEd Australia Day 2

Day 1

Technically today was not the first day of TechEd but it was for me. I arrived at Gold Coast after a pleasant 1 point something hour flight. Meeting familiar people at Gold Coast airport who were also headed to TechEd got me into TechEd groove right away. I checked into my hotel which is in front of Convention Centre and the best part is that I can get a panoramic view of Convention Centre from my window. Wasting no time I went straight to Convention Centre for registration and picked up my Netbook, picked up my delegate bag (to be reviewed soon) and headed to exhibition hall where I caught up with Rob Farley and finally met Deeps. For those who have confused me with Deeps I can now logically prove that we are two different people. Exhibition hall was buzzing with activity and you could feel geek vibes all over the place.

I took some pictures which you can view down below. But before you do that I have a WTF to report on. Drums please. WTF for today was found inside delegate bag within HP folder. There is a pamphlet which says HP recommends Vista Business.

Registration booths at TechEd Australia.

Me holding my HP Netbook. Still in the box.

My friend Rob Farley holding my Netbook.

Netbook right out of the box. Not booted yet.

More tomorrow…

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TechEd Australia Day 1

• Multi-tenant data store based on Azure Table Storage as well as SQL Azure.
• Per tenant customization of data model
• Per tenant customization of business logic (using Windows Workflow in Windows Azure)
• Per tenant customization of user interface using Silverlight 3.0. Customization can be multi-level – custom theme, custom XAML, and custom XAP.
• Automated tenant provisioning
• Windows Azure web role->Azure Queue->worker role pattern for high volume transaction processing that can scale on demand
• Claims aware web service and web application using Geneva Framework
• Active and Passive Federation using Geneva Framework, Geneva Server and .NET Access Control Service (ACS)
• Windows Live ID authentication for consumer facing web site
• Use of Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library Caching and Logging application blocks in Windows Azure

As you can see from the list above that Riviera uses many features of Azure. This makes it an excellent sample to learn from. Assuming that Windows Azure is not too far from RTM, developers should start sharpening their Cloud Computing skills.

Link To Riviera home page.

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Windows Azure Sample Application Riviera

I think in or around PDC 2009 we should see commercial launch of Azure, Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0 and maybe even Oslo.

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PDC 2009 Registration Is Open

I’m starting the countdown to when I can download Windows 7.

You can read more about it on Microsoft Press Pass site.

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Windows 7 Goes RTM (Release To Manufacturing)

• Windows Azure Tools For Visual Studio 2008 And Visual Studio 2010 (also includes the SDK).
• Windows Azure SDK only.

Here is a list of new goodies in July 2009 CTP re-posted from this link. 

New for the July 2009 CTP:

• Support for developing and deploying services containing multiple web and worker roles. A service may contain zero or more web roles and zero or more worker roles with a minimum of one role of either type.
• New project creation dialog that supports creating Cloud Services with multiple web and worker roles.
• Ability to associate any ASP.NET Web Application project in a Cloud Service solution as a Web Role
• Support for building Cloud Services from TFS Build
• Enhanced robustness and stability

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio includes:

• C# and VB Project Templates for creating a Cloud Service solution
• Tools to change the Service Role configuration
• Integrated local development via the Development Fabric and Development Storage services
• Debugging Cloud Service Roles running in the Development Fabric
• Building and packaging of Cloud Service Packages
• Browsing to the Azure Services Developer Portal
• SSL Certificate selection

On my machine I uninstalled the old CTP and installed July 2009 CTP. All is working well and no smoke came out of my laptop.

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Download Windows Azure Tools And SDK July 2009 CTP

Oops

As you can see that not much has changed for Office setup and this is good. I have found Microsoft Office setup process to be the most stable.

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Office 2010 Setup Screenshots

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Silverlight 3 Released

Link to download ebay Sidebar.

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Silverlight ebay Sidebar For Internet Explorer 8