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Brad Calder – Director/Architect Data Building Blocks Types of Storage in Windows Azure Volatile Storage Local Storage Caches (eg. AppFabricCache and MemCache) Persistent Storage Windows Azure Storage Blobs Provide interface for storing name files Tables...
MVVM – Model-View-ViewModel Separation of concerns View = handled UI Model = contains pure data ViewModel = communicates between View and Model through bindings Works Great with Silverlight and WPF XAML based data bindings Testable Model Represents...
Bob Schmidt – Program Manager For WF4: Programs are data Scheduler-based program execution stackless & serializable Runtime-mediated code rendezvous Natural Control flow run it the way you think of it Authoring WF is an activity Can author programmatically...
Steve Marx – Technology Strategist Now we can have the ability to have more than a Web and a Work Role, since we have several different types of Roles. Example: IIS Role SMTP Role … Now the there is the new Storage API that is currently being shipped...
Steven Sinofsky Developing Windows 7 Learning Solving Problems + Innovation “Engineering 7” Blog made a very interesting Dialog even without having any code of the product, just about the decisions that were being made Ecosystem Readiness Developer Pre...
Cameron Skinner – Product Manager in Visual Studio, responsible for the Architecture Tools in VS2010 Why? Complexity remains a serious problem Found everywhere Code Requirements Organizational Politics and so on… VS2010 attacks these problems by increasing...
Data Platform as a Service In the future will have Reporting, Data Analytics SQL Azure Database Relational Database service SQL Server technology foundation Scalable Symmetrical SQL Azure Provisioning Each account has zero or more servers Azure wide provisioned...
Cloud: Fifth Generation of computing Cloud - 2010+ SOA - 2000s Web - 1990s Client-Server - 1980s MainFrame – 1970s Technology Disruptions Cheap Processing and Storing Virtualization Advances in Networking Advances in Web Technologies Emerge of Service...
Announcement: WIF – Windows Identity Foundation RTW Extensions to .NET for claim-based identity http://www.microsoft.com/wif Interesting Changes “Genera” Server is now called “Active Directory Federation Services 2.0” and comes as part of Windows Server...
Architecture Handled using a Driver Model that is implemented by the partners Based on WM_Messages that are exchanged by the application and the Multi-touch Hardware Development Tiers Good Everything that comes for free APIs Panning/Zoom gestures Right...
Geneva Framework has received a name change and now is called WIF – Windows Identity Foundation, since is the technology that will work with all types of Identity in the Microsoft world. “It provides developers pre-built .NET security logic...
Windows 7 Usage of the GPU Continues from Vista Media Center UI Video Playback Desktop Window Manager (DWM) Win7 DWM uses DirectX3D10.1 API Scales in Performance all the way from low end integrated graphics cards to the highest level ones Windows 7 High...
One of the most asked questions about Windows Azure is what is the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and the ROI (Return of Investment) that we have in order to decide if we are going or not into the cloud. Based on this questions...
Sensor Platform Overview Develop better and more productive user experiences Enable environmentally adaptive user interface Windows 7 features a unified API for working with sensors No need to target vendor-specific APIs Consistent interface for sensors...
Overview In previous versions of windows, users managed files in known folders locations Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos People store data “all over the place” 54% of digital content lives outside the user profile Most uses do both Store content on...
Key Goals Things you use all the time are at your fingerprints Manage your windows with confidence You are in control Clean and lightweight Coding for the Windows Taskbar Win32/C++ COM iTaskbarList3 ICustomDestinationList IShellItem IShellLink .NET Windows...
Working Set Background Optimal usage of system memory – a constant area of investment Working set: Comprises all the potentially trimmable virtual addresses for a given process, session or system resource Resources like nonpaged pool, kernel stacks, large...
More Core Platform Support Supporting Mode than 64Lps Introduction of the Processor Groups Windows Server 2008 R2 introduces processor Groups Each processor groups can contain up to 64 LPs System support up to 4 groups in this release Maintains compatibility...
Introduction to the Windows 7 BootCamp Key Windows Kernel Changes Performance Footprint reduction Memory optimizations Working set management improvements Perftrack Power efficiency Core Parking Trying to make cores going to sleep if they are not needed...
In the last few days I’ve been seeing several element of the Entity Framework 4.0 that come with the .NET 4.0 and I there are several interesting news that I thought I could wrap up a little bit in this post, and so lets start with the news. ...
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