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My PDC10 session is available online (it was pre-recorded). I talk about the new ‘Labs’ release that we released into the datacenter this week and about a range of future capabilities that we’re planning for Service Bus. Some of those future capabilities that are a bit further out are about bringing back some popular capabilities from back in the .NET Services incubation days (like Push and Service Orchestration), some are entirely new.

One important note...

We know that there’s a number of you out there who have outbound firewall rules in place on your corporate infrastructures that are based on IP address whitelisting. So if you want to make Service Bus or Access Control work, you need to know where our services reside. Below is the current list of where the services are deployed as of today, but be aware that it’s in the nature of cloud infrastructures that things...

There must be dozens of these things, but I didn’t find one online last week and I needed a tool like this to prep a part of my keynote demo in Poland last week – and thus I wrote one. It’s a simple file management utility that works with the Windows Azure Blob store. No whistles, no bells, 344 lines of code if you care to look, both exe and source downloads below, MS-PL license.

As our team was starting to transform our parts of the Azure Services Platform from a CTP ‘labs’ service exploring features into a full-on commercial service, it started to dawn on us that we had set ourselves up for writing a bunch of ‘enterprise apps’. The shiny parts of Service Bus and Access Control that we parade around are all about user-facing features, but if I look back at the work we had to...