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Server Core Videos

Deploying IIS 7.5 + FASTCGI + PHP on Server Core

Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core introduces support for subsets of the 2.0/3.0/3.5 .NET Framework in addition to a number of other new optional features and roles.   These additions extend the role of Server Core system deployments to not only enterprise network service hosting but also to application hosting.   The Framework additions make it possible to host The Web Platform including ASP.NET web applications.   Windows PowerShell is available along with the integrated IIS Provider.   Application Developers should ensure their new and existing Enterprise Solutions integrate well with the Server Core deployment environment.

FastCGI is a language-independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance. The FastCGI extension is available in IIS 7.5 and enables application frameworks such as PHP to achieve improved performance and stability on Internet Information Services.
 
This demo illustrates FastCGI configuration on a Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Core deployment target.  

Learn more at the IIS Extensions portal.

Take a video tour of Server Core application development scenarios via MSDN Channel9 and find detailed samples on MSDN Code Gallery.  See live Server Core demos at the Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Tour.


How To Debug ASP.NET Applications on Server Core

Leverage Windows Server 2008 R2 "Server Core" as an Application Server!

ASP.NET is now an optional feature on Server Core.  Learn how to configure a remote debug session.  Watch this demo and read more detailed information at the following MSDN Code Gallery project page:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/R2CoreASPNET

See additional W2K8 R2 Server Core postings at http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/R2CORE.


PowerShell Videos

Windows PowerShell V2 IIS Provider
This video demonstration provides and introduction to the new Windows PowerShell provider for IIS available new with Windows Server 2008 R2.

See additional information via MSDN Code Gallery.

Windows PowerShell V2 Remote Sessions
This video demonstrates using Windows PowerShell V2 remote sessions.   This is a new feature with V2 and available natively within Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

See more info about Windows PowerShell V2 at MSDN Code Gallery.


NUMA videos

The C++ Concurrency Runtime - Asynchronous Agents Library
The Asynchronous Agents Library (or just Agents Library) provides a programming model that enables you to increase the robustness of concurrency-enabled application development. The Agents Library is a C++ template library that promotes an actor-based programming model and in-process message passing for fine-grained dataflow and pipelining tasks. The Agents Library builds upon the scheduling and resource management components of the Concurrency Runtime.

The agent class itself is intended for course grained parallelism/components that handle larger computationally intensive tasks or collections of smaller tasks. Fundamentally, agents are tasks that have an observable lifecycle and communicate with other agents by using message passing.  Agents are NOT intended to be used for fine-grained parallelism; for that, the patterns and constructs in the Parallel Patterns Library are better suited.

You'll want to subscribe to the Native Concurrency blog, find more resource and download example code from Code Gallery. 



The C++ Concurrency Runtime - Parallel Patterns Library

The C++ Concurrency Runtime is new with Visual Studio 2010 and currently in beta. The runtime encapsulates and extends many new operating system features including NUMA resource locality and User-Mode-Scheduling. 

The Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) provides an imperative programming model that promotes scalability and ease-of-use for developing concurrent applications.  The PPL raises the level of abstraction between your application code and the underlying thread/task scheduling mechanisms by providing generic, type-safe algorithms and containers that act on data in parallel.  The PPL also enables you to develop applications that scale by providing alternatives to shared state.

The PPL provides the following features:

  • Task Parallelism: a mechanism to execute several work items (tasks) in parallel.

  • Parallel algorithms: generic algorithms that act on collections of data in parallel.

  • Parallel containers and objects: generic container types that provide safe concurrent access to their elements.

By using PPL, you can introduce fine-grained parallelism without even having to manage a scheduler.   You would use the Asynchronous Agents Library instead to express coarse-grained parallelism.

You'll want to subscribe to the Native Concurrency blog, find more resource and download example code from Code Gallery. 
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