Windows Azure Software Development Kit (July 2009 CTP)

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Microsoft .NET Services SDK (July 2009 CTP)

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Windows Azure Platform .Net Services

http://www.microsoft.com/azure/netservices.mspx

Microsoft® .NET Services are web-based developer services that improve your business focus and market agility by making it simpler for Windows Azure apps & services and SQL Azure databases to connect and interoperate with your existing applications and databases. These services run on the Windows Azure platform, providing a Service Bus and an Access Control Service for you and your business partners to bridge assets across cloud, on-premises, or hosted deployment locations, and to interoperate across languages, platforms, and standards.

While more services are in the works, .NET Services currently includes two core components: the Access Control Service and the Service Bus. The Service Bus enables secure, loosely-coupled connectivity between services and applications to navigate firewalls or network boundaries, using a variety of communication patterns. The Access Control service provides an enterprise-class mechanism for federated authorization across organizations and protocols.

In the same way that Microsoft® .NET Framework provides higher-level libraries to make developers more productive, .NET Services help developers focus on their application logic rather than deploying and managing their own cloud-based infrastructure.”

Overview

Access ControlThe Microsoft .NET Access Control Service provides an easy way to control web applications and services while integrating with standards-based identity providers, including enterprise directories and web identity systems such as Windows Live ID. Authorization decisions can be pulled out of the application and into a set of declarative rules that can transform incoming security claims into claims that applications understand.

Service Bus

The Microsoft .NET Service Bus makes it easy to connect applications together over the Internet. Services that register on the Bus can easily be discovered and accessed, across any network topology. The Service Bus provides the familiar Enterprise Service Bus application pattern, while helping to solve some of the hard issues that arise when implementing this pattern across network, security, and organizational boundaries, at Internet-scale.