AppFabric

Microsoft have announced two new Azure AppFabric CTPs.

May 2011 CTP will include Service bus enhancements including

• A more comprehensive pub/sub messaging
• Integration with the Access Control Service V2
• Queues based upon a new messaging infrastructure backed by a replicated, durable store.

See here for more …

When deploying an Access Control Service enabled web application from my development environment to Windows Azure I got the following error:

“Unable to find assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0. . .”

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If you are an MSDN subscriber (Ultimate or Premium) you now get more Windows Azure resources. Professional subscribers are now also included in the promotion.

See here for more details. If you have already taken up this offer and you are an MSDN Premium subscriber then you will automatically be upgraded to the MSDN …

The Azure SDK has been released and is available here

The changes are as follows:

• Resolved an issue that caused full IIS fail when the web.config file was set to read-only.
• Resolved an issue that caused full IIS packages to double in size when packaged.
• Resolved an issue that caused a full IIS web role to recycle when …

Following on from a previous post on UI design (Clicks Cost Money) I thought it was time to write some more.

Designing a software system with user interaction in mind is a challenging task. We are now in a world where the user interface is no longer just mouse clicks on buttons, menus and other controls. Touch screen …