Nuno Filipe Godinho

Just today in the WPC 2009 Microsoft announced the Commercial Availability and Business Model that will be used in Windows Azure and Windows Azure Service Platform, and so a brief info about the amounts involved.

.NET Services July 2009 CTP Release

I was viewing this ArCast.TV chapter about Windows Azure by David Chappell and I found that it would be interesting for me and for other people to get some notes about this, and so this post was created due to it.

Just a while ago I was talking about Data Services and suddenly a confusion between ADO.NET Data Services and SQL Data Services took place, because we were talking about different Data Services, and so in order to try to clarify the differences I remembered to write this post.

The SQL Data Services that are part of the Windows Azure Service Platform just recently, and due to customer feedback, changed the way of working from a ACE (Authority, Container, Entity) model to a TDS (Tabular Data Stream) model.

The long wait has finished as the WPF Charting was made available on the last WPF Toolkit release of June 2009 and now we can use all those great charts that were available for Silverlight, now also in WPF.

.NET RIA Services are here to make our life easier and they were introduced as part of the Silverlight 3.0 but are not only for Silverlight.

Entity Framework has suffered great changes and in order to know more about them I recommend the following reading: