Expended feature set in Access Control Service (AppFabric LABS)

Microsoft just released a new feature set on top of Access Control Service (ACS).  It is currently in “incubation” in AppFabric Labs.  The Azure Labs are charge-free developer previews of features.  They should eventually move to “production” with charge patterns.

You can see a quick (5 minutes) demo of it on Wade Wegner blog’s.  Wade is a Microsoft Technical...

Event bus in Windows Azure

Ok, that’s it, I’m started for feature requests on Windows Azure with my last Blog Entry, let’s keep going!

I’ve spoke about how Azure Storage, and more specifically Azure Tables, lack querying capabilities.  Another Azure Storage component, Azure Queues, also lack a big feature:  notification!

To some extent Azure queues are even less optional than...

Querying Azure Storage

I’ve been reading the Wikipedia article about CouchDB lately.  It always impresses me how much engineering effort and men-hours are put into so many competing platforms.  I guess the least we could do is to look at the architecture of those initiatives and get the best out of them.

Consuming FaultContract with Restful WCF services

I’ve learned something new this morning while doing a proof-of-concept around WCF REST services.

I did a little WPF demo app both hosting and consuming web services.  I was trying to handle faults properly, using fault contracts.  I had experience with SOAP-based WCF web services, so I went the motions, starting by creating a fault contract:

[DataContract

Departmental Application Migration to Azure – Part 3 – ADFS with on-premise web app

This is part of a series of blogs.  See the preceding blog entries:

• Departmental Application Migration to Azure – Part 1
• Departmental Application Migration to Azure – Part 2 – ADFS Installation

For me, authentication is the major challenge for this proof of concept.  The migration of our tiny database, the web application that...