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ARCast.TV - Real World Software + Services Architecture: The Winchester Ballistics Calculator

published 1234 days, 4 hours, 39 minutes ago posted by bobfamiliarbobfamiliar 1237 days, 18 hours, 13 minutes ago
Thursday, January 07, 2010 9:58:06 AM GMT Sunday, January 03, 2010 8:23:45 PM GMT
You've no doubt heard by now a lot about software plus services as an architectural concept, but how many real world examples can you say you've seen? On this episode of ARCast, Denny Boynton sits down with Derek Jerrel from Winchester Ammunition and Jim McPherson and Jeff Fattic from Quilogy to discuss their innovative use of Silverlight, WPF and Surface to build a highly advanced and extremely cool ballistics calculator leveraging the power and agility of an S+S architectural model. (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
tags: Silverlight, Winchester Ammunition, Surface, WPF, Software plus Services, Quilogy, Thought Leadership, Architecture, Architects, ARCast
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Migrating Applications to Windows Azure

published 1243 days, 1 hour, 8 minutes ago posted by bobfamiliarbobfamiliar 1243 days, 8 hours, 53 minutes ago
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 1:29:13 PM GMT Tuesday, December 29, 2009 5:43:34 AM GMT
Now that Windows Azure is released, many of you will be evaluating Microsoft’s cloud platform for both new development projects as well as targeting the Azure Platform for migration of existing .NET applications. Bob Familiar recently took his music web site which was based on SQL Server 2005, ADO.NET, WCF SOAP Services and Silverlight 2 and migrated the code base to Windows Azure, SQL Azure, WCF RESTful services and Silverlight 3 using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Expression Blend 3. He captured... (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
tags: Windows Azure, Visual Studio 2010, WCF RESTful Services, SQL Azure
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Innovation Showcase : Windows 7 and MinWin

published 1244 days, 1 hour, 17 minutes ago posted by zhimingzhiming 1248 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes ago
Monday, December 28, 2009 1:19:46 PM GMT Wednesday, December 23, 2009 6:38:52 PM GMT
23 December 2009Windows 7 and MinWin If you’ve heard of Windows 7’s new kernel function called MinWin and are wondering if it is an enhanced kernel base or something else, check out this blog post here, or click the images below to find out more detail from Mark Russinovich’s insights. Filed under: Windows 7 (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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Innovation Showcase : Azure Lessons Learned: Outback Steakhouse Facebook Application

posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1254 days, 18 hours, 50 minutes ago
Thursday, December 17, 2009 7:46:56 PM GMT
17 December 2009 Azure Lessons Learned: Outback Steakhouse Facebook Application Check out this Channel 9 Azure-focused episode with Jim Zimmerman, CTO of Thuzi where he talks about building their Facebook application for Outback Steakhouse that was hosted in Windows Azure.  http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/Azure-Lessons-Learned-Outback-Steakhouse-Facebook-App/ At the time this video was filmed, Thuzi had yet to go into production with the Outback Facebook application.  They launched in ea... (more)
category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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Innovation Showcase : Moving to SQL Azure? It’s Easy

posted by wzackwzack 1255 days, 13 hours, 44 minutes ago
Thursday, December 17, 2009 12:52:58 AM GMT
Moving to SQL Azure? It’s Easy Don’t take my work for it. Take a look at this blog post by David Ramel of 1105 Media Inc.  In it David explains how easy it was to migrate an existing SQL Server database into SQL Azure running on Windows Azure and get an on-premise application talking to database in the cloud using the new database migration Script Wizard. David also incorporated data from Dallas, the new Microsoft public data repository in the cloud.  Dallas is Microsoft’s Information... (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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Innovation Showcase : Adventure-Works Database for SQL Azure

posted by wzackwzack 1255 days, 16 hours, 55 minutes ago
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:41:46 PM GMT
Adventure-Works Database for SQL Azure It is a delight to announce the availability of the Adventure-Works Community Sample Databases for SQL Azure.  You can download the scripts and data files from CodePlex... (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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Innovation Showcase : Can’t Touch This…Surface Manipulations and Inertia Sample for Microsoft Silverlight

posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1236 days, 17 hours, 7 minutes ago
Monday, January 04, 2010 9:29:59 PM GMT
04 January 2010 Can’t Touch This…Surface Manipulations and Inertia Sample for Microsoft Silverlight Multitouch support in Windows 7 allows applications to blur the lines between computers and the real world. Touch-optimized applications entice users to touch the objects on the screen, drag them across the screen, rotate and resize them, and flick them across the screen by using their fingers. Multitouch requires an environment (platform and operating system, hosting application such as a browser) tha... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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Innovation Showcase : Windows 7 Application Compatibility List

published 1261 days, 7 hours, 6 minutes ago posted by zhimingzhiming 1262 days, 22 hours, 17 minutes ago
Friday, December 11, 2009 7:31:15 AM GMT Wednesday, December 09, 2009 4:19:31 PM GMT
09 December 2009Windows 7 Application Compatibility List Microsoft recently published a list of 6645 software applications and respective Windows 7 compatibility information. According to the Microsoft Office Excel-based spreadsheet listing, which is available for download here, compatibility information has been verified by either the software publisher or by the Windows 7 Logo Program testing requirements. Below are application compatibility status definitions: "Compatible” means that the software... (more)
category: Smart Client | clicked: 0 | 1 comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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Windows Azure in 20 Minutes

posted by wzackwzack 1261 days, 10 hours, 51 minutes ago
Friday, December 11, 2009 3:45:58 AM GMT
I had the opportunity to present The Windows Azure Platform at the 2nd Annual ISV Architects Workshop in New York City on December 10,2009. My thanks to my associate Gunther Lenz who is the local Microsoft ISV Architect Evangelist for the opportunity. (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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Innovation Showcase : 3M Multi-touch Developer Kit on Windows 7

published 1259 days, 5 hours, 51 minutes ago posted by zhimingzhiming 1260 days, 17 hours, 33 minutes ago
Sunday, December 13, 2009 8:45:31 AM GMT Friday, December 11, 2009 9:04:09 PM GMT
11 December 20093M Multi-touch Developer Kit on Windows 7 The 3M Multi-touch Developer kit consists of a 19-inch, 16:10 metal-housed LCD display with desktop stand and USB HID interface. This kit provides software developers with the necessary tools to create next-generation, true multi-touch applications in support of the upcoming release of the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. One unique aspect about the multitouch developer kit is that it supports 10-finger multi-touch input.  For more technic... (more)
category: Smart Client | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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ARCast.TV - Rocky Lhotka on Development Frameworks

published 1256 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by bobfamiliarbobfamiliar 1258 days, 21 hours, 33 minutes ago
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:43:56 AM GMT Sunday, December 13, 2009 5:03:29 PM GMT
13 December 2009ARCast.TV - Rocky Lhotka on Development Frameworks It is difficult to strike a balance between the optimal architecture and over architecting a solution. Joe Shirey sits down with Rocky Lhotka , the creator of the CSLA.NET framework, to discuss how he balances what should and should not be in his framework. (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
tags: Practical Guidance, CSLA.NET, Architectural Skills, Rocky Lothka, Architects, ARCast, Frameworks
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15 reasons why you should start using Model Driven Development (MDD)

published 1256 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by bobfamiliarbobfamiliar 1258 days, 13 hours, 50 minutes ago
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:43:56 AM GMT Monday, December 14, 2009 12:46:29 AM GMT
Johan den Haan has written a compelling piece over at Enterprise Architect on why you should start using MDD. He lists 15 advantages of Model-Driven Development that focus in on productivity, quality and alignment. (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
tags: MDD, Model Driven Development, Architecture
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Innovation Showcase : IE8 And Web Standards

published 1256 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1258 days, 21 minutes ago
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:43:56 AM GMT Monday, December 14, 2009 2:15:27 PM GMT
14 December 2009 IE8 And Web Standards Earlier this year,  Microsoft submitted 7200 CSS 2.1 test cases to the W3C, as a mature approach to move the web forward and help solving ambiguities, options and misinterpretations in any specification. In this post you will get a sense of how these tests work and how IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome are passing these tests. You will also find a demo of Expression Web SuperPreview and some very positive feedback from the Mozilla team. Check out Giorgio... (more)
category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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Hosting a Java Tomcate infrastructure on Windows Azure

published 1256 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by wzackwzack 1258 days, 2 minutes ago
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:43:56 AM GMT Monday, December 14, 2009 2:34:30 PM GMT
Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability. Check out episode 21 It’s a PDC 2009 Pizza Party. Peter interviews Tim Wise from Dominos Pizza about how Dominos is hosting their Tomcat/Java based web-ordering system in Windows Azure to support peak traffic periods. (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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Innovation Showcase : IE8 And HTML 5

published 1256 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1258 days, 4 minutes ago
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:43:56 AM GMT Monday, December 14, 2009 2:32:58 PM GMT
14 December 2009 IE8 And HTML 5   In this post, you will see some of the features from the W3C HTML 5 Working Draft, from the W3C Web Applications specification, and from the ECMAScript-262 Language specification. While most of these specifications are still a work in progress, with Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft has started delivering support for several features...offering to web developers the opportunity to build compelling and optimized scenarios (for instance, support for native JSON APIs o... (more)
category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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Innovation Showcase : Silverlight 4: Accessing the Web Camera and Microphone

published 1256 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1257 days, 20 hours, 44 minutes ago
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:43:56 AM GMT Monday, December 14, 2009 5:52:20 PM GMT
14 December 2009 Silverlight 4: Accessing the Web Camera and Microphone Did you know that Webcams and microphones are now accessible from Silverlight 4 applications? Developers can enable video and audio sharing for real-time collaboration and interactive multimedia applications. This video (and code samples by Tim Heuer demonstrates how to utilize a user's web camera and microphone attached to their computer via the browser. This demonstrates the basics of the core API for capturing the audio/vide... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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Innovation Showcase : PHP and IE8 Web Slices

published 1256 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1257 days, 20 hours, 20 minutes ago
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:43:56 AM GMT Monday, December 14, 2009 6:17:13 PM GMT
14 December 2009 PHP and IE8 Web Slices Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) shipped with a new feature for web users called Web Slices. You can learn more about web slices here. Essentially it lets you add enhanced links to your favorite bar that allow you to preview snippets of content from websites that you frequently visit without having to open up the page. It’s really useful to do little tasks like check on your web based Inbox, check the weather in cities you live or visit, traffic status, stock ticke... (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
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Innovation Showcase : MyChristmasCatalog featured on Silverlight.net

published 1256 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1257 days, 19 hours, 18 minutes ago
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:43:56 AM GMT Monday, December 14, 2009 7:18:43 PM GMT
14 December 2009 MyChristmasCatalog featured on Silverlight.net Still looking for that last minute Holiday gift?  Check-out the home page of www.Silverlight.net and you’ll see this month’s Silverlight showcase featuring www.MyChristmasCatalog.com.   This site, developed by Catalog Enterprises features innovative use of Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend and to deliver a truly unique one-stop, holiday shopping destination and user experience. And don’t forget to check the Christmas Traditions sectio... (more)
category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
tags: Silverlight 3
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Innovation Showcase : Azure Data as a Service – Jim O’Neil details “Dallas"

published 1270 days, 2 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by bobfamiliarbobfamiliar 1271 days, 21 minutes ago
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 11:48:50 AM GMT Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:16:02 PM GMT
Azure Data as a Service – Jim O’Neil details “Dallas" Jim O’Neil has written a great blog that introduces you to the Data as a Service codenamed “Dallas”. “Dallas” is essentially a repository of data repositories, a service - built completely on Windows Azure - that allows consumers (developers and information workers) to discover, access, and purchase data, images, and real-time services. Developers can access “Dallas” via REST-based APIs and Atom feeds or in raw format (as many of... (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | 1 comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
tags: Windows Azure, Data as a Service, Dallas
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ARCast.TV - Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, on Cloud Architecture Patterns

posted by bobfamiliarbobfamiliar 1265 days, 19 hours, 56 minutes ago
Sunday, December 06, 2009 6:40:27 PM GMT
Want to know more about Microsoft Windows Azure and the Azure Services platform and how it relates to Microsoft’s “Software + Services” strategy and other cloud computing services such as Amazon EC2? Check out Dr. Zhiming Xue’s interview with Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences (AIS). Speaking from his understanding and experience, Vishwas articulates three typical styles of applications and services that may be built to take advantages of the Azure Services platform -- complete applica... (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com
tags: Vishwas Lele, Windows Azure AppFabric, Dr. Zhiming Xue, Applied Information Sciences, Thought Leadership, Cloud Computing, Architecture, Architecture Software+Services, Architects, ARCast