Anith Gopal

Oxford Computer Group (OCG to their friends) are running a free seminar on “Business Ready Security for Education, including Identity & Access Management”, at our campus in Reading on Thursday 6th May 2010. OCG are a long-standing Microsoft partner who do a lot of work with universities on managing digital identity across a campus network connected to web services.

Well, Microsoft made the big announcement on Monday and the dust has settled! I’ve briefed several of my customers and they all love the direction we are taking with the O/S, UI and the integrated experiences (XBOX Live, etc). Next week, I’m switching gears a little to discuss some of the great things Windows phone 6.5 brings to the table <today> and some of the cool devices that are on the horizon

The talk Bob and I gave at the p&p Redmond summit in October is now available for online viewing. In it we discuss and demo (use time breakpoints  to fast forward to a specific topic): the overall theme of the release – simplicity & improved user experience (00:00) data accessors (06:25) higher performing logging (18:00) fluent configuration interface (20:32) config tool facelift and making it easier to plug in custom extensions to the config tool (30:18) – honouring validation attributes between VAB and System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations (41:08) tackling external and internal complexity with architectural refactoring and resulting testability improvements  (42:16) container independence (43:34) Enjoy! If you like what you see and want to play with EntLib5.0, download the most recent bits from entlib.codeplex.com and provide your feedback. Enterprise Library v5 preview at the p&p Summit 2009 Related videos: Unity, Prism 2

Here is part 2 of answering the question "I want to get across as much of Mobility & Windows Mobile as I can this year, what are the sessions I should attend, and how do they fit together?" Along with the break-out sessions at TechEd, there are also Hands-on-Labs(HOLs) being run, plus on the Showcase floor there will be some smaller/shorter sessions in the Interactive  Theatres. Here’s a listing of the sessions in the Interactive Theatre, so you know which Mobility ones to look out for.

Overnight it looks like there are a whole load more sessions which have appeared on the PDC site, including a number of sessions for Windows Azure. In particular, these ones caught my attention Storing and Manipulating Blobs and Files with Windows Azure Storage Patterns for Building Scalable and Reliable Applications with Windows Azure Developing Advanced Applications with Windows Azure Windows Azure Monitoring, Logging, and Management APIs   You can see more details about them here .