Anith Gopal

Although I didn’t include it in the release candidate announcement, the online documentation collection for WCF has also been updated. While you can navigate between the different framework versions for the reference documentation, some people seem to be having more trouble finding the conceptual documentation and samples, which are not as tightly linked together. Here are the starting pages for those document collections as well as a direct link to download all of the sample source code.

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The November 2009 CTP release of the Access Control Service includes support for a new community protocol and token format. Their names are Web Resource Authorization Protocol (WRAP) and Simple Web Tokens (SWT)

The .NET Services and the account provisioning portal for SQL Data Services and .NET Services will be undergoing planned maintenance on January 30th, 2009, starting at 1PM PDT, and ending at 2PM PDT. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience!   The .NET Services Team

We are currently experiencing an outage that is affecting the Workflow Service, Access Control Service, Management Portal, and Service Bus.