Details: Microsoft .NET Services 5th Coding Milestone Reached!
As of 31th March, the 5th coding milestone of .NET Services, a component under Windows Azure.
Specifically, .NET Services M5 includes improved support for web standards such as REST, ATOM, SOAP, and HTTP. Moreover, the .NET Service Bus now includes discoverable and durable queues and routers, which support both SOAP and HTTP. Developers can download the .NET Services SDK today via http://www.azure.com.
.NET Services make developing loosely-coupled on-premises and cloud-based applications easier. .NET Services include a hosted service bus for connecting applications and services across network boundaries, access control for securing applications, and message orchestration. These hosted services allow customers to easily create federated applications that span from on-premises to the cloud.
Key Benefits
- .NET Services connect on-premises, hosted and cloud-based applications to the cloud, and connect disparate groups across network and organizational boundaries by federating data, messages, and workflows.
- .NET Services make it easy for web applications to federate with a variety of identity providers, using a cloud-based service for access control.
- By supporting web standards, web developers, using any programming language, can use .NET Services to connect, collaborate, and create federated applications.
- NET Services support a wide range of Web standards: REST, ATOM, SOAP, and HTTP.
Specific enhancements include:
Access Control Service – Feature Additions:
All new management service, which now supports REST and ATOM for managing rules.
Service Bus – Feature Additions:
- Discoverable and durable queues, which support both SOAP and HTTP, provide reliable pull message delivery with the capability of peek lock and simple destructive reads
- Discoverable and durable routers, which support SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2 and HTTP, provide message storage, control and delivery in unidirectional publish and subscription solutions.
- Supported Push delivery to HTTP endpoints and Solicit/Push delivery to Service Bus listeners with NetOnewayRelayBinding.
Workflow – Feature Additions:
- CloudServiceBusReceive activity enables workflow to receive Service Bus messages. Combining CloudServiceBusReceive with CloudServiceBusSend, the already existing activity, Workflow Service now offers improved integration with Service Bus. Message-based activation allows the creation of new instances on-demand and direct communication with these instances. Finally, there are Workflow REST-Client enhancements with the addition of PUT, DELETE, custom verbs as well as parameters and header support to the HttpSend activity.
Developers can download the .NET Services SDK today. The latest .NET Services CTP, is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/sdk.mspx - “Microsoft .NET Services SDK”.