15 Azure-Related Sessions Scheduled for TechEd 2010
Real-World SOA with Microsoft .NET and Windows Azure
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Application Server & Infrastructure
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
Companies worldwide are enjoying the benefits and efficiencies that can be realized through a well-defined and implement Service-Oriented Architecture strategy. For many, with the recent “go-live” of the Windows Azure platform, intriguing new architectural patterns for distributed, loosely-coupled applications are being made possible, allowing them to fundamentally re-think how they build and consume applications. In this session we explore what it means to realize the benefits of service-oriented architectures on the Microsoft .NET Framework, and see that exposing legacy assets by means of Web services whilst being necessary is not sufficient. We explore various on-premise and off-premise real-world SOA-related capabilities, examine a number of design patterns, and drill-down into what it takes to bridge from on-premise to the Windows Azure platform. Speakers for this session consist of authors from the recently-released “SOA with .NET and Windows Azure” book and also co-authors of the SOA Manifesto.
Windows Azure AppFabric Overview
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Application Server & Infrastructure
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
Come learn how to use the Windows Azure AppFabric - Service Bus and Access Control as building block services for Web-based and hosted applications, and how developers can leverage services to create applications in the cloud and connect them with on-premises systems.
Architecting Hybrid Cloud Applications with the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Application Server & Infrastructure
- Level: 300 - Advanced
In the abstract, all distributed applications need events management, remote calls and tunneling through various communication boundaries, from address spaces to firewalls and platforms. In the particular, often developers take these requirements either for granted as absolute mandates for specific technologies (“must use web services”) or as impossible to approach (“its too hard”) and thus limit the scope of their application both in capabilities and in market share. The availability of the Windows Azure AppFabric service bus is disruptive since it enables new design and deployment patterns that are simply inconceivable without it, opening new horizons for architecture, integration, interoperability, deployment and productivity. In this unique session organized especially for TechEd, Clemens Vasters and Juval Lowy will share their perspective, insight and expertise in architecting solutions using the service bus for hybrid applications that straddle both the cloud and the Intranet, all from the perspective of the application, not merely the technology itself. You will see how WCF as the universal communication fabric enables families of communication patters, from discrete events, to elastic communication with buffers, discovery with the service bus, how to design for tunneling for diagnostics or logging, to enabling edge devices. The session will end with a glimpse at what is in store for the next versions of the service bus and the future patterns.
Integrating LoB Systems (SAP, Mainframe) with the Cloud Using Microsoft BizTalk Server and the Windows Azure AppFabric
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Application Server & Infrastructure
- Level: 300 - Advanced
Cloud computing is a technology that has widespread impact on IT organizations of all sizes. Organizations with large enterprise applications, such as SAP or mainframe applications, often wonder how they can realize the value of cloud computing when they already have such as huge investment in on-premise software. In this session we demonstrate how we interact with a business process that involves an SAP and a Mainframe application from a cloud-based application, leveraging all the advantages the cloud has to offer. We use Microsoft BizTalk Server and Windows Azure AppFabric to expose enterprise data to our application in a secure and scalable way.
Developing Advanced Applications with Windows Azure
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 300 - Advanced
Go beyond "Hello, World" and see how Windows Azure supports building complex, multi-tier applications.
Lap around the Windows Azure Platform
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 300 - Advanced
Come hear how the Windows Azure Platform provides a scalable compute and storage environment with Windows Azure, secure connectivity with Service Bus and Access Control Service, and a relational database with SQL Azure. Learn about these new services and see several demos that show how to build applications that run in and take advantage of Microsoft’s new cloud platform.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online to Microsoft SharePoint Online Customization and Integration Deep Dive
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 300 - Advanced
During this session, we discuss how we accomplished the CRM Online and SharePoint Online customizations and integration that are available in our Stratus product. We initially demo the final product and touch on the high level architecture which includes three of Microsoft's cloud platforms: CRM Online, SharePoint Online and Azure. Then we dive deep into how we accomplished making customizations to CRM and SharePoint on the fly, how we created a seemless user experience in both the above applicaitons without being able to deploy custom binaries to either platform, and how the Azure platform brought everything together.
Stratus is an Enterprise Application Mashup tool that integrates the best features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM with Microsoft SharePoint. CRM users can feed client contact information and upload client documents directly to SharePoint sites from within Microsoft Dynamics CRM while SharePoint users can view these documents and general information about the CRM accounts, opportunities and cases they relate to. To learn more go to http://stratus.statera.com.
Microsoft SQL Azure Development Best Practices
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 300 - Advanced
This session covers best practices for using the SQL Azure cloud relational database. We walk through the creation of a departmental application from scratch. We see firsthand how easy it is to provision a SQL Azure Database and start developing against it. We also look at importing and exporting data, and reporting. Time is also spent looking at strategies for migrating your existing applications to the cloud so that you are provided with high availability, fault tolerance and visibility to these often unseen data repositories. Finally we see how the reach of the cloud provides you with opportunities to create a new, differentiated class of applications.
The Economics of Cloud Computing
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 300 - Advanced
When architecting and developing cloud applications, you now have the ability to directly impact the cost for running your application. In this session, learn about the Windows Azure Platform pricing model, the service level agreements for the platform, and the top cost considerations you should make when architecting your application.
Tips and Tricks for Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 to Build Applications That Run on Windows Azure
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 300 - Advanced
A platform is only as powerful as the tools that let you build applications for it. This session focuses on using demos, not slides, to show the best way to use Visual Studio 2010 to develop Windows Azure applications. Learn tips, tricks and solutions to common problems when creating or moving an existing application to run on Windows Azure. Come see how Visual Studio 2010 supports all parts of the development cycle as we show how to take an ASP.NET application running on IIS and make it a scalable cloud application running on Windows Azure.
What’s New in Microsoft SQL Azure
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 300 - Advanced
SQL Azure provides a highly available and scalable relational database engine in the cloud. In this demo-intensive and interactive session, learn how to quickly build Web applications with SQL Azure Databases and familiar Web technologies. We demonstrate several new enhancements we have added to SQL Azure based on the feedback we’ve received from the community. Finally, we go over our feature roadmap moving forward including Project Codename "Dallas", a new service allowing developers and information workers to easily discover, purchase, and manage premium data subscriptions.
Windows Azure Present and Future
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 300 - Advanced
Windows Azure is Microsoft's entry into the cloud computing marketplace. We look at getting an application up and running with Windows Azure, data storage, exposing Web services, and finally an overview of a running application.
Windows Azure Storage Deep Dive
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Cloud Computing & Online Services
- Level: 300 - Advanced
Learn about the storage capabilities provided by Windows Azure including storing and manipulating blobs, structured non-relational entities, and using queues. Learn tips, tricks, and performance guidance for building new applications or migrating an existing project.
Unlock Your Data; Open Data Protocol in Action
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks
- Level: 400 - Expert
There is no shortage of valuable data being generated across applications, tools, Web sites, etc. in a given enterprise, unfortunately this leaves many customers frustrated by “data lock in”. To break down data silos and increase the shared value of data and associated business logic through the Web, Microsoft has recently announced the Open Data Protocol (see opendata.org). Join this session to understand what the Open Data Protocol (OData) is and how it adds user and developer value to many of Microsoft’s leading products and services (such as SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Codename “Dallas”, Windows Azure, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel, Visual Studio, .NET, Silverlight, AJAX, etc. )
Discover Windows Embedded Standard 7 as Your Next Application Platform
- Session Type: Breakout Session
- Track: Windows Embedded
- Level: 200 - Intermediate
"Did you ever dream of building highly interactive and robust next generation applications on a platform that can be tailored exactly to your needs? If so, this session is just for you! Discover how Windows Embedded Standard 7 combines the power of Windows 7 with the ease, flexibility and dedicated functionality of the Embedded branch of the Windows family (predecessors: NT 4.0 embedded, XP embedded, WES 2009). Join us for a wild ride across a lot of technologies such as Silverlight 4.0, Sensor & Location PLatform, Enhanced / File Based Write Filter, Windows Azure, Gadgets, Powershell, Dialog Filter, the new managed DPWS stack, to name just a few. The time to design the next wave of smart connect devices is now!"
I’ll add details on the presenter and location, as well as newly added sessions, as TechEd 2010 draws closer.
TechEd 2010 is back to New Orleans (Hooray!) on 6/7 through 6/10/2010.
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