Murray Gordon

Microsoft's patents and patent applications in Cloud Computing

Murray Gordon — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:30:19 GMT

Here's some great info on Microsoft’s patents and patent applications in the area of Cloud Computing.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/result.html?p=1&edit_alert=&srch=xprtsrch&query_txt=AN%2Fmicrosoft+AND+cloud+AND+search&uspat=on&usapp=on&date_range=last20&stemming=on&sort=chron&search=Search.

It is not necessary to read an entire patent to understand the main concepts. Instead, you can read the ABSTRACTS, which appear at the top of each document.

These patents provide insights into Microsoft’s thinking about Cloud Computing.

You can also check out direct information on Microsoft’s Cloud initiatives at http://www.azure.com, http://office.live.com/ and http://www.mesh.com.

Thanks for checking out this post!

Cheers,

Murray Gordon
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation

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My Favorite Sessions from PDC08

Murray Gordon — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:07:58 GMT

Here's the complete list of sessions from PDC and my personal favorites.

You can find all the recordings of these sessions at www.microsoftpdc.com.

Here's my personal favorites:

Windows Azure (Hosted ASP, Workflow, Silverlight, RAW / Azure Storage)

A Lap Around Windows Azure (ES16) - 0:46 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune

A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform (BB01) - 1:12 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune

Live and Mesh (Sync, Feeds, Resources, Contacts, etc.)

A Lap around the Live Framework and Mesh Services (BB04) - 1:15 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune

Building Mesh-Enabled Web Applications Using the Live Framework (BB30) - 1:34 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune

FeedSync and Mesh Synchronization Services (BB31) - 1:10 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune | MP4

SQL Data Services (Structured Storage, Query, Sort)

A Lap around SQL Services (BB23) - 1:00 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune

Windows 7

Welcome to the Windows 7 Desktop (PC24) - 0:50 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune

Developing Multi-touch Applications (PC03) - 1:21 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune | MP4

Surface

Developing for Microsoft Surface (PC17) - 1:13 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune | MP4

Oslo

A Lap around "Oslo" (TL23) - 1:24 Slides | WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune | MP4

Here's the complete list with links to the sessions:

KYN01 | Day 1 Morning Keynote (Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia, David Thompson)
KYN02 | Day 2 Morning Keynote (Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie, David Treadwell)
KYN03 | Day 2 Afternoon Keynote (Chris Anderson, Don Box)
KYN04 | Day 3 Morning Keynote (Rick Rashid)
BB01 | A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform (John Shewchuk)
PowerPoint
BB02 | Architecture of the .NET Services (Dennis Pilarinos, John Shewchuk)
PowerPoint
BB03 | SQL Services : Under the Hood (Gopal Kakivaya, Tony Petrossian)
PowerPoint
BB04 | Live Services: A Lap around the Live Framework and Mesh Services (Ori Amiga)
PowerPoint
BB05 | Live Services: Building Applications with the Live Framework (Raymond Endres)
PowerPoint
BB06 | Live Services: Mesh Services Architecture and Concepts (Abolade Gbadegesin)
PowerPoint
BB07 | SQL Server 2008: Developing Large Scale Web Applications and Services (Hala Al-Adwan, Jose Blakeley)
PowerPoint
BB08 | Microsoft Dynamics CRM: The Appealing Business Application (Humberto Lezama Guadarrama)
PowerPoint
BB09 | Microsoft Office Communications Server and Exchange: Platform Futures (Chris Mayo, David Ollason)
PowerPoint
BB10 | Live Services: Deep Dive on Microsoft Virtual Earth (Mark Brown)
PowerPoint
Code
BB11 | Identity Roadmap for Software + Services (Bertocci Vittorio, Kim Cameron)
PowerPoint
BB12 | .NET Services: Messaging Services - Protocols, Protection, and How We Scale (Clemens Vasters)
PowerPoint
BB13 | SharePoint 2007: Creating SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio 2008 (Chris Johnson)
BB14 | SQL Services: Futures (Patric McElroy)
PowerPoint
BB15 | SQL Server: Database to Data Platform - Road from Server to Devices to the Cloud (David Campbell, Zach Skyles Owens)
PowerPoint
BB16 | SQL Server 2008: Beyond Relational (Michael Rys)
PowerPoint
Code
BB18 | "Dublin": Hosting and Managing Workflows and Services in Windows Application Server (Dan Eshner)
PowerPoint
BB19 | Live Services: Live Framework Programming Model Architecture and Insights (Ori Amiga)
PowerPoint
BB20 | Live Services: Making your Application More Social (Angus Logan)
PowerPoint
BB22 | Identity: Live Identity Services Drilldown (Jorgen Thelin)
PowerPoint
BB23 | A Lap around SQL Services (Soumitra Sengupta)
PowerPoint
BB24 | SQL Server 2008: Deep Dive into Spatial Data (Isaac Kunen)
PowerPoint
BB25 | SQL Server 2008: New and Future T-SQL Programmability (Michael Wang)
PowerPoint
BB26 | SQL Server 2008: Business Intelligence and Data Visualization (Stella Chan)
PowerPoint
BB27 | .NET Services: Orchestrating Services and Business Processes Using Cloud-Based Workflow (Moustafa Ahmed)
PowerPoint
BB28 | .NET Services: Access Control Service Drilldown (Justin Smith)
PowerPoint
BB29 | Identity: Connecting Active Directory to Microsoft Services (Lynn Ayres, Tore Sundelin)
PowerPoint
BB30 | Live Services: Building Mesh-Enabled Web Applications Using the Live Framework (Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie)
PowerPoint
BB31 | Live Services: FeedSync and Mesh Synchronization Services (Steven Lees)
PowerPoint
BB32 | Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Building Line-of-Business Applications (Andrew Bybee)
PowerPoint
BB33 | Dynamics Online: Building Business Applications with Commerce and Payment APIs (Adam Wilson)
PowerPoint
BB34 | Live Services: Notifications, Awareness, and Communications (John Macintyre)
PowerPoint
BB35 | Live Services: The Future of the Device Mesh (Jeremy Mazner)
PowerPoint
BB36 | FAST: Building Search-Driven Portals with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Silverlight (Jan Helge Sagefl�t, Stein Danielsen)
PowerPoint
BB37 | SQL Server 2008: Developing Secure Applications (Il-Sung Lee)
PowerPoint
BB38 | .NET Services: Connectivity, Messaging, Events, and Discovery with the Service Bus (Clemens Vasters)
PowerPoint
BB39 | .NET Services: Logging, Diagnosing, and Troubleshooting Applications Running Live in the Cloud (Mark Gilbert, Steve Garrity)
BB40 | Sync Framework: Enterprise Data in the Cloud and on Devices (Liam Cavanagh)
PowerPoint
BB41 | Live Services: What I Learned Building My First Mesh Application (Don Gillett)
PowerPoint
BB42 | Identity: "Geneva" Server and Framework Overview (Caleb Baker, Stuart Kwan)
PowerPoint
BB43 | Identity: "Geneva" Deep Dive (Jan Alexander)
PowerPoint
BB44 | Identity: Windows CardSpace "Geneva" Under the Hood (Rich Randall)
PowerPoint
BB45 | Office Communications Server 2007 R2: Enabling Unified Communications (David Ollason, Oscar Newkerk)
PowerPoint
BB46 | Exchange Web Services Managed API: Unified Communications Development for Exchange (Jason Henderson)
PowerPoint
BB47 | SharePoint 2007: Advanced Asynchronous Workflow Messaging (Alex Malek)
PowerPoint
BB48 | Microsoft Advertising Platform: A Lap Around (Erynn Petersen)
PowerPoint
BB49 | Microsoft Advertising Platform: A Day in the Life of a Click (Robert Devine)
PowerPoint
BB51 | Live Services: Programming Live Services Using Non-Microsoft Technologies (Nishant Gupta)
PowerPoint
BB52 | SQL Services: Tips and Tricks for High-Throughput Data-Driven Applications (David Robinson)
PowerPoint
BB53 | SharePoint Online: Extending Your Service (Troy Hopwood)
PowerPoint
BB54 | Designing Your Application to Scale (Max Feingold)
PowerPoint
BB55 | .NET Services: Access Control In Microsoft .NET Services (Justin Smith)
PowerPoint
BB56 | Showcase: Industry Leaders Moving to the Cloud (Brandon Watson, Erik Johnson, Jitendra Thethi, Larry Beck)
PowerPoint
BB57 | Microsoft Dynamics AX: Building Business Process into Your Application (Josh Honeyman)
PowerPoint
BB58 | Case Study: Bridging On-Premises with the Cloud (David Shutt)
PowerPoint
BB59 | Behind the Scenes: How We Built a Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Application (Jack Greenfield, Wade Wegner)
PowerPoint
ES01 | Developing and Deploying Your First Windows Azure Service (Steve Marx)
PowerPoint
ES02 | Windows Azure: Architecting & Managing Cloud Services (Yousef Khalidi)
PowerPoint
ES03 | Windows Azure: Cloud Service Development Best Practices (Sriram Krishnan)
PowerPoint
ES04 | Windows Azure: Essential Cloud Storage Services (Brad Calder)
PowerPoint
ES06 | Developing with Microsoft .NET and ASP.NET for Server Core (Andrew Mason, Ian Robinson)
PowerPoint
ES07 | Windows Azure: Modeling Data for Efficient Access at Scale (Niranjan Nilakantan, Pablo Castro)
PowerPoint
ES09 | Enabling Test Automation Using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (Taylor Brown)
PowerPoint
ES10 | Developing Solutions for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Using WMI (Nihar Shah)
PowerPoint
ES11 | Developing Connected Home Applications and Services for Windows Home Server (CJ Saretto, Fabian Uhse)
PowerPoint
ES12 | Exposing Connected Home Services to the Internet via Windows Home Server (Brendan Grant, CJ Saretto)
PowerPoint
ES13 | How to Develop Supercomputer Applications (Jeff Baxter, Sean Mortazavi)
PowerPoint
ES14 | IIS 7.0 and Beyond: The Microsoft Web Platform Roadmap (Vijay Sen)
PowerPoint
ES15 | Web Application Packaging and Deployment (Saad Ladki)
PowerPoint
ES16 | A Lap Around Windows Azure (Manuvir Das)
PowerPoint
ES17 | Windows Azure: Programming in the Cloud (Daniel Wang, Stefan Schackow)
PowerPoint
ES19 | Under the Hood: Inside the Windows Azure Hosting Environment (Chuck Lenzmeier, Frederick Smith)
PowerPoint
ES20 | Developing Applications for More Than 64 Logical Processors in Windows Server 2008 R2 (Arie van der Hoeven)
PowerPoint
ES21 | Windows 7 Presentation Virtualization: Graphics Remoting ( RDP) Today and Tomorrow (Gaurav Daga, Nadim Abdo)
PowerPoint
ES22 | Extending Terminal Services and Hyper-V VDI in Windows 7 (Christa Anderson, Niraj Agarwala)
PowerPoint
ES23 | Windows 7: Optimizing Applications for Remote File Services over the WAN (Mathew George)
PowerPoint
ES24 | PowerShell: Creating Manageable Web Services (Jeffrey Snover)
PowerPoint
ES25 | Showcase: Windows Azure Enables Live Meeting (John Shriver-Blake, Michael Conrad)
PowerPoint
ES29 | Showcase: Windows Azure Enables /Nsoftware and Full Armor (Danny Kim, Gent Hito, Steve Marx)
PowerPoint
ES30 | Datacenters and Resilient Services (Benjamin Ravani)
PowerPoint
ES31 | Showcase: How HP Built their Magcloud Service on Windows Azure (Andrew E Fitzhugh, Steve Marx)
PowerPoint
ES32 | Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 (Elsie Nallipogu, John Sheehan)
PowerPoint
PC01 | Windows 7: Web Services in Native Code (Nikola Dudar)
PowerPoint
PC02 | Windows 7: Extending Battery Life with Energy Efficient Applications (Pat Stemen)
PowerPoint
PC03 | Windows 7: Developing Multi-touch Applications (Anson Tsao, Reed Townsend)
PowerPoint
PC04 | Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware (Anantha Kancherla)
PowerPoint
PC05 | Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D (Allison Klein)
PowerPoint
PC06 | Deep Dive: Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application in Microsoft Silverlight (Seema Ramchandani)
PowerPoint
PC07 | WPF: Extensible BitmapEffects, Pixel Shaders, and WPF Graphics Futures (David Teitlebaum)
PowerPoint
PC10 | Microsoft Silverlight 2 for Mobile: Developing for Mobile Devices (Amit Chopra, Giorgio Sardo)
PowerPoint
PC11 | Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications (Jamie Cool)
PowerPoint
PC12 | Deep Dive: The New Rendering Engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (Alex Mogilevsky)
PowerPoint
PC13 | Windows 7: Building Great Audio Communications Applications (Larry Osterman)
PowerPoint
PC14 | Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon: The next generation user experience for presenting commands in Win32 applications. (Nicolas Brun)
PowerPoint
PC15 | Windows 7: Benefiting from Documents and Printing Convergence (Adrian Ford)
PowerPoint
PC16 | Windows 7: Empower users to find, visualize and organize their data with Libraries and the Explorer (David Washington)
PowerPoint
PC17 | Developing for Microsoft Surface (Brad Carpenter, Robert Levy)
PowerPoint
PC18 | Windows 7: Introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite (Kam VedBrat, Leonardo Blanco)
PowerPoint
PC19 | Windows 7: Designing Efficient Background Processes (Vikram Singh)
PowerPoint
PC20 | ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap (Scott Hunter)
PowerPoint
PC21 | ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building Web Applications (Phil Haack)
PowerPoint
Code
PC22 | Windows 7: Design Principles for Windows 7 (Samuel Moreau)
PowerPoint
PC23 | Windows 7: Integrate with the Windows 7 Desktop (Rob Jarrett)
PowerPoint
PC24 | Windows 7: Welcome to the Windows 7 Desktop (Chaitanya Sareen)
PowerPoint
PC25 | Windows 7: The Sensor and Location Platform: Building Context-Aware Applications (Dan Polivy)
PowerPoint
PC26 | Microsoft Visual Studio: Building Applications with MFC (Damien Watkins)
PowerPoint
PC27 | Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and the Microsoft .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code (Ian Ellison-Taylor)
PowerPoint
PC29 | Microsoft Silverlight 2: Control Model (Karen Corby)
PowerPoint
PC30 | ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Scott Hunter)
PowerPoint
PC31 | ASP.NET and JQuery (Stephen Walther)
PowerPoint
PC32 | ASP.NET AJAX Futures (Bertrand Le Roy)
PowerPoint
Code
PC33 | Microsoft Visual Studio: Easing ASP.NET Web Deployment (Vishal Joshi)
PowerPoint
PC34 | Open XML Format SDK: Developing Open XML Solutions (Eric White, Zeyad Rajabi)
PowerPoint
Code
PC35 | Silverlight Controls Roadmap (Shawn Burke)
PowerPoint
PC39 | Inside the Olympics: An Architecture and Development Review (Eric Schmidt, Jason Suess)
PowerPoint
PC40 | SQL Server Compact: Embedding in Desktop and Device Applications (Steve Lasker)
PowerPoint
PC41 | ASP.NET: Cache Extensibility (Stefan Schackow)
PowerPoint
PC42 | Windows 7: Deploying Your Application with Windows Installer (MSI) and ClickOnce (Tyler Robinson)
PowerPoint
PC43 | Deep Dive: What's New with user32 and comctl32 in Win32 (Raymond Chen)
PowerPoint
PC44 | Windows 7: Programming Sync Providers That Work Great with Windows (Jason Roberts, Moe Khosravy)
PowerPoint
PC45 | WPF: Data-centric Applications Using the DataGrid and Ribbon Controls (Mark Wilson-Thomas, Samantha Durante)
PowerPoint
PC46 | WPF Roadmap (Anson Tsao, Kevin Gjerstad)
PowerPoint
PC47 | Microsoft Expression Blend: Tips & Tricks (Douglas Olson, Peter Blois)
PowerPoint
PC48 | Research: Designing the World Wide Telescope (Jonathan Fay)
PC49 | Microsoft .NET Framework: CLR Futures (Ian Carmichael, Joshua Goodman)
PowerPoint
PC50 | Windows 7: Using Instrumentation and Diagnostics to Develop High Quality Software (Kevin Woley, Ricky Buch)
PowerPoint
PC51 | Windows 7: Best Practices for Developing for Windows Standard User (Crispin Cowan)
PowerPoint
PC52 | Windows 7: Writing World-Ready Applications (Erik Fortune, Yaniv Feinberg)
PowerPoint
PC53 | Building High Performance JScript Applications (Sameer Chabungbam)
PowerPoint
PC54 | Mono and .NET (Miguel de Icaza)
PowerPoint
PC55 | Oomph: A Microformat Toolkit (Karsten Januszewski)
PowerPoint
PC56 | Windows Embedded "Quebec": Developing for Devices (Shabnam Erfani)
PowerPoint
PC58 | Framework Design Guidelines (Brad Abrams, Krzysztof Cwalina)
PowerPoint
PC59 | Commerce Server "Mojave": Overview (Kerry Havas, Tom Schultz)
PowerPoint
PC60-V | Driving for software quality through customer feedback (Kevin Hill)
PC61-V | Developing compatible applications for Windows (Uday Shivaswamy)
PC62-V | Hands On Analysis with Windows Performance Toolkit (General) (Michael Milirud, Sharif Farag)
SYMP01 | Parallel Symposium: Addressing the Hard Problems with Concurrency (David Callahan, Lynne Hill)
PowerPoint
SYMP02 | Parallel Symposium: Application Opportunities and Architectures (Jerry Bautista, John Feo)
PowerPoint
SYMP03 | Parallel Symposium: Future of Parallel Computing (David Detlefs, James Reinders, Niklas Gustafsson, Sean Nordberg, Selena Wilson)
SYMP04 | Services Symposium: Expanding Applications to the Cloud (Gianpaolo Carraro, Simon Guest)
PowerPoint
SYMP05 | Services Symposium: Enterprise Grade Cloud Applications (Eugenio Pace)
SYMP06 | Services Symposium: Cloud or No Cloud, the Laws of Physics Still Apply (Gianpaolo Carraro)
PowerPoint
TL01 | Office Business Applications: Enhanced Deployment (Andrew Whitechapel, Saurabh Bhatia)
PowerPoint
TL02 | Under the Hood: Advances in the .NET Type System (Andrew Whitechapel, Misha Shneerson)
PowerPoint
TL03 | Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Software Diagnostics and Quality for Services (Habib Heydarian, Justin Marks)
PowerPoint
TL04 | Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server: How We Use It at Microsoft (Stephanie Saad)
PowerPoint
TL06 | WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0 (Ed Pinto)
PowerPoint
TL07 | Developing Applications Using Data Services (Mike Flasko)
PowerPoint
TL08 | Offline-Enabled Data Services and Desktop Applications (Pablo Castro)
PowerPoint
TL09 | Agile Development with Microsoft Visual Studio (Lori Lamkin, Sunder Raman)
PowerPoint
TL10 | Deep Dive: Dynamic Languages in Microsoft .NET (Jim Hugunin)
PowerPoint
Code
TL11 | An Introduction to Microsoft F# (Luca Bolognese)
PowerPoint
TL12 | Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic (Lucian Wischik, Paul Vick)
PowerPoint
TL13 | Microsoft Visual C++: 10 Is the New 6 (Boris Jabes)
PowerPoint
TL14 | Project "Velocity": A First Look (Murali Krishnaprasad)
PowerPoint
TL15 | Architecture without Big Design Up Front (Peter Provost)
PowerPoint
TL16 | The Future of C# (Anders Hejlsberg)
PowerPoint
TL17 | WF 4.0: A First Look (Kenny Wolf)
PowerPoint
TL18 | "Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience (Don Box, Florian Voss)
PowerPoint
TL19 | Microsoft Visual Studio: Bringing out the Best in Multicore Systems (Hazim Shafi)
PowerPoint
TL20 | Entity Framework Futures (Tim Mallalieu)
PowerPoint
TL21 | WF 4.0: Extending with Custom Activities (Matt Winkler)
PowerPoint
TL22 | Concurrency Runtime Deep Dive: How to Harvest Multicore Computing Resources (Niklas Gustafsson)
PowerPoint
TL23 | A Lap around "Oslo" (Douglas Purdy, Vijaye Raji)
PowerPoint
TL24 | Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability (Ed Glas, Steve Carroll)
PowerPoint
TL25 | Parallel Programming for C++ Developers in the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio (Rick Molloy)
PowerPoint
TL26 | Parallel Programming for Managed Developers with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio (Daniel Moth)
PowerPoint
TL27 | "Oslo": The Language (David Langworthy, Don Box)
PowerPoint
TL28 | "Oslo": Repository and Models (Chris Sells, Martin Gudgin)
PowerPoint
TL29 | Live Labs Web Sandbox: Securing Mash-ups, Site Extensibility, and Gadgets (Dragos Manolescu, Scott Isaacs)
PowerPoint
TL30 | Microsoft Sync Framework Advances (Lev Novik)
PowerPoint
TL31 | "Oslo": Building Textual DSLs (Chris Anderson, Giovanni Della-Libera)
PowerPoint
TL32 | Microsoft Visual Studio: Customizing and Extending the Development Environment (Tim Wagner)
PowerPoint
TL33 | Managed Extensibility Framework: Overview (Glenn Block)
PowerPoint
TL34 | Managed and Native Code Interoperability: Best Practices (Jesse Kaplan)
PowerPoint
TL35 | WCF: Developing RESTful Services (Steve Maine)
PowerPoint
TL36 | Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML (Daniel Roth, Rob Relyea)
PowerPoint
TL37 | Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Leveraging Virtualization to Improve Code Quality with Team Lab (Ram Cherala)
PowerPoint
TL38 | WCF: Zen of Performance and Scale (Nicholas Allen)
PowerPoint
TL39 | Coding4Fun: Windows Presentation Foundation Animation, YouTube, iTunes, Twitter, and Nintendo's Wiimote (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Scott Hanselman)
PowerPoint
TL40 | "Dublin" and .NET Services: Extending On-Premises Applications to the Cloud (Jacob Avital)
PowerPoint
TL42 | Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Powering MSDN (Mark Johnston)
PowerPoint
Code
TL43 | Microsoft XNA Game Studio: An Overview (Frank Savage)
PowerPoint
TL44 | IronRuby: The Right Language for the Right Job (John Lam)
PowerPoint
TL45 | Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Edition: Overview (Gert Drapers)
PowerPoint
TL46 | Microsoft Visual C# IDE: Tips and Tricks (Dustin Campbell)
PowerPoint
TL47 | Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010 (Cameron Skinner)
PowerPoint
TL48 | Microsoft Visual Studio: Web Development Futures (Jeff King)
PowerPoint
TL49 | Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies (Scott Hanselman)
PowerPoint
TL50 | Research: BAM, AjaxScope, and Doloto (Emre Kiciman, Ethan Jackson)
PowerPoint
TL51 | Research: Contract Checking and Automated Test Generation with Pex (Mike Barnett, Nikolai Tillmann)
PowerPoint
TL52 | Team Foundation Server 2010: Cool New Features (Brian Harry)
PowerPoint
TL54 | Natural Interop with Silverlight, Office, and Python in Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Basic (Alex Turner)
PowerPoint
TL55 | The Concurrency and Coordination Runtime and Decentralized Software Services Toolkit (George Chrysanthakopoulos)
PowerPoint
Code
TL56 | Project "Velocity": Under the Hood (Anil Nori)
PowerPoint
TL57 | Panel: The Future of Programming Languages (Anders Hejlsberg, Douglas Crockford, Erik Meijer, Gilad Bracha, Jeremy Siek, Wolfram Schulte)
TL58 | Research: Concurrency Analysis Platform and Tools for Finding Concurrency Bugs (Madan Musuvathi, Thomas Ball)
PowerPoint
TL59 | Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks (John Cunningham)
PowerPoint
TL60 | Improving Code Quality with Code Analysis (Ravs Kaur)
PowerPoint
TL61 | Panel: The Future of Unit Testing (Euan Garden, Jim Newkirk, Nikolai Tillmann, Peter Provost)

Thanks to Cliff Jacobson and Mike Swanson for the complete list of sessions that happened at PDC.

Thanks for checking out this post!

Cheers,

Murray Gordon
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
http://blogs.msdn.com/MurrayG
US ISV Team Blog
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PowerThreading Library for Silverlight, by Jeffrey Richter of Wintellect

Murray Gordon — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:22:53 GMT

Just found out about the new PowerThreading Library for Silverlight, by Jeffrey Richter of Wintellect.

This is definitely worth checking out.

Now Available: PowerThreading Library for Silverlight, by Jeffrey Richter of Wintellect

Available now for immediate download from http://Wintellect.com/PowerThreading is the latest version of Wintellect’s free Power Threading Library by Jeffrey Richter. This new version includes a DLL for use by Silverlight applications and components. In particular, the Silverlight version includes Jeffrey’s popular AsyncEnumerator class that allows developers to use a synchronous programming model while performing asynchronous operations. This allows developers to create very fast and responsive applications while using very few threads. The class also offers various coordination activities such as cancelation, timeout, discarding, and so on. Limited free support for the library is available via http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PowerThreading/, while full-featured support is available via contract with Wintellect.

“With Silverlight, developers have the best of both worlds: the ability to create rich client-side applications deployed via the web. In order to keep the web browser responsive, Silverlight allows only asynchronous operations; synchronous operations are not allowed. My Power Threading library allows developers to easily perform asynchronous operations while using a synchronous programming model. This is useful for any application performing I/O operations with file streams, web site requests, web service requests, and more.” -Jeffrey Richter

Very cool.

Thanks for checking out this post!

Cheers,

Murray Gordon
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation

http://blogs.msdn.com/MurrayG
US ISV Team Blog
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Microsoft Developer Conference (MDC) in Atlanta on Dec. 16

Murray Gordon — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:43:05 GMT

We have an upcoming Architect/Developer event called MDC or "Microsoft Developer Conference" that will have an entire day dedicated to Cloud Computing. It will be a great destination for the real juicy details on how to do Cloud Computing using Microsoft Technologies.

Here's the link to the site: http://www.msdndevcon.com/Pages/Atlanta.aspx

I'm looking forward to it.

Date: December 16, 2008

Location:

The Westin Peachtree Plaza
210 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30303-1745
(404) 659-1400

There will be some great speakers and awesome content.

This is a great opportunity to get caught up on how to develop/architect for the cloud.

Thanks for checking out this post!

Cheers,

Murray Gordon
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
http://blogs.msdn.com/MurrayG
US ISV Team Blog
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Adoption of Google Chrome is dropping

Murray Gordon — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:47:02 GMT

Looks like the adoption of Google's Chrome is dropping...

Google Chrome usage share has been dropping since its launch.

Check it out on Marketshare (http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?sample=24&qprid=34&qpcustom=Chrome+0.2&qpsp=3531&qpnp=52&qptimeframe=D)

Can't help but be a little psyched about this.

Thanks for checking out this post!

Cheers,

Murray Gordon
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation

http://blogs.msdn.com/MurrayG
US ISV Team Blog
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Some great webcasts on WPF, App security and ASP.NET

Murray Gordon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:34:36 GMT

Here's some great webcasts to check out, just around the corner on WPF, ASP.NET and writing secure applications.

If you're reading this an the webcast has already happened, you can check out the recording at the same link.

MSDN Webcast: BenkoTIPS Live and On-Demand: 10 Ways Your Applications Can Be More Secure on Windows Vista
10/22/08 11:00 AM (PST); http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032390933&Culture=en-US. In this webcast, you learn 10 reasons why your application can be more secure when it is deployed on Windows Vista. We also cover the new capabilities designed to protect memory, minimize privilege, and provide resource-oriented access control, plus a plethora of additional security enhancements.

MSDN Webcast: BenkoTIPS Live and On-Demand: ASP.NET Overview for Non-ASP.NET Developers
10/29/08 9:00 AM (PST) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032390937&Culture=en-US. In this webcast, we explore many of the core elements of ASP.NET development and share practical examples to help you get started building solutions with the ASP.NET framework.

MSDN Webcast: BenkoTIPS Live and On-Demand: Windows Presentation Foundation Demystified 11/5/2008, 9:00 AM (PST)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032391135&Culture=en-US. In this webcast, we examine the core concepts of WPF, such as layout panels, data binding, styles, and control templates. We then use these to develop an application UI from the ground up.

Thanks for checking out this post!

Cheers,

Murray Gordon
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation

http://blogs.msdn.com/MurrayG
US ISV Team Blog
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Check out the New Look of the US ISV Team Blog!

Murray Gordon — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:02:28 GMT

If you are reading this on an RSS aggregator or RSS reader you might want to check out the new look of the US ISV Team Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde

Thanks to everyone involved for helping out on the new look.

Special thanks to Susan Friesen and Kevin Kennedy from BBDO Atlanta. I really appreciate the help and I definitely owe you one.

Here's a screenshot of what it looks like:

Check it out!

Thanks for checking out this post!

Cheers,

Murray Gordon
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation

http://blogs.msdn.com/MurrayG
US ISV Team Blog
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