AppFabric Highlights
Meet the Windows Azure platform AppFabric Team at PDC 2009!
Coming to PDC 2009? Don't miss out the opportunity to meet with the Windows Azure platform AppFabric team!
.NET Services November 2009 CTP Now Available
The .NET Services team is excited to announce the .NET Services November 2009 CTP release. Please see this blog post for release details.
TechEd 2009 Sessions Recap
If you attended TechEd 2009 but missed the .NET Services sessions, you can see them online.
Windows Azure platform AppFabric
AppFabric Access Control
AppFabric Access Control Service takes the pain of authentication and authorization out of your web applications and services. A simple and familiar programming model keeps your code clean and allows you to transition to the declarative model of rules and claims. These rules can be easily configured to meet your applications’current and future access control needs. AppFabric Access Control is based on a claims-based authorization model, which alleviates the need to develop and support a variety of identity providers and architectures.
AppFabric Service Bus
AppFabric Service Bus alleviates the pain to expose application's or service’s functionality across a variety of network-related constraints. Once AppFabric Service Bus has established connectivity among applications, it provides flexibility on how applications can communicate with each other. Developers are enabled to build solutions with various communication patterns such as relayed, buffered, bidirectional, publish-subscribe, multicast, streaming and direct-connect. AppFabric Service Bus provides each service a stable Internet-accessible Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that can be accessed by any authorized client application. Powered by AppFabric Access Control, AppFabric Service Bus is able to control services accessibility with heterogeneous identity systems.
AppFabric CodePlex Sample
Azure Issue Tracker
This sample demonstrates a real-world SaaS architecture and scenario using the Azure Services Platform to perform federation and multi-tenancy. Technologies used include the Access Control service (part of Windows Azure platform AppFabric) and SQL Data Services (part of SQL Services).