MS-TechEd 2011 Key Take-aways

Below are the list of key take-aways in the recently concluded MS-TechEd 2011

·         Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure

o   Most of the sessions were centered around Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure. Check by previous post for the more details.

http://vijaytechupdates.blogspot.com/2011/04/microsoft-cloud-infrastructure-in.html

·         Windows Server AppFabric - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee677312.aspx

o   Fulfills the Application Server Role in Windows Server

o   Provides following Services

1.       Caching Services – Distributed Caching (Previously CodeNamed “Velocity”)

2.       Hosting Services

1.       Workflow Persistence

2.       Monitoring Service

1.       Health Monitoring

2.       Uses High Performant ETW for tracing

3.       Using Administrative console we could control the level of the Trace Information.

4.       We can also add the custom trace information programatically

·         SQL Server 2008 R2 – StreamInsight -   http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/r2-complex-event.aspx

o   Microsoft’s platform to build applications for streaming data

o   A comprehensive development platform for building event-driven applications.

o   Helps us to Query data on the fly data from different event sources using LINQ Queries.

o   Can be used in source data from Devices, Sensors etc and get time series data.

o   OSI Soft PI Historian has released Adapters for StreamInsight. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/streaminsight/archive/2011/03/21/osisoft-pi-adapter-release-candidate.aspx

·         IE9

o   Support to HTML5

o   Makes use of GPU

o   Microsoft Claims and demoed with a HTML5 page that IE9 is performing better than Google Chrome.

o   Not supported in Windows XP

o   They have created as many as 90+ demos to demonstrate the capabilities for IE9. http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

·         Web Farm Framework 2.0 http://www.iis.net/download/WebFarmFramework

o   Microsoft product that enables you to easily provision and mange a farm of web servers.

o   Using Application Request Routing there was a demo on Load balancing with Servers deployed in WFF 2.0.

·         Windows 7 Sensor Platform http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee658252.aspx

o   Using this Platform the was a demo on how to control the application using Light Sensors with managed code.

·         Infragistics DataVisualization controls

o   Infragistics showed the demo on DataVisualization controls that were included from release on 10.3 onwards

o   High performance controls that are less memory intensive.

o   These set of controls are available for WPF and Silverlight only

·         Windows Products for Integration

o   Biztalk2010 for Enterprise application integration.

o   Enables organizations to use BizTalk capabilities from both Windows Server AppFabric and Windows Azure AppFabric (http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/appfabricconnect.aspx)