Anith Gopal

We have another HPC Pack 2008 family release now live! The MPI Cluster Debugger (with C/C++ project templates) is now available via the Microsoft Download Center. Search for ‘hpc debugger’ or go directly to http://bit.ly/1Fe7Zb . This package integrates the ‘F5’ experience of launching the Visual Studio 2008 MPI Cluster Debugger and your Windows HPC Server 2008 environment, for a better and more integrated debugging experience

The WCFProxyGenerator tool on CodePlex has been updated, which is a community contributed tool that generates proxy classes that help manage the lifetimes of the proxy objects. As you might guess from the name the primary way that the proxy class helps manage object lifetimes is to deal with factories and proxies that have encountered a communication exception. You can also get two videos that go along with the tool and help explain proxy management: Managing Proxy Lifetime Exception Handling WCF Proxy It looks like this is still a work in progress so the code has changed somewhat since the videos were made.

Microsoft’s® Demo Showcase Suite is a collection of demonstration resources that includes the new Demo Showcase application for creating your own click-through demos as well as this community site to manage your demos, search for demos, distribute demos you’ve created and stitch different demos together to make your own. Sign in with Windows Live ID and take a look through this site and download the Demo Showcase application to get started creating your own demos that you can share through Silverlight or download as standalone executables http://demoshowcasesuite.com/public/Find.aspx Phil Newman