Azure Issue Tracker Sample Application (Standard Edition) Released On CodePlex

Filed under: Cloud Computing | Open Source | Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) | Software+Services | Windows Azure

22 Jan 2009

The Azure Issue Tracker application is a sample application that allows users to capture and track various types of issues. This sample demonstrates a real-world SaaS architecture and scenario using the Azure Services Platform to perform federation and multi-tenancy. Technologies used include the Access Control service (part of .NET Services) as well as SQL Data Services (part of SQL Services).

This sample is being released in two versions: Standard and Enterprise. The Standard version allows ad-hoc users to use LiveID federation with the .NET Access Control Service and authorize other LiveID users. The Enterprise version of IssueTracker wile use the same claims-based authorization capabilities as the standard version, but allow greater control by customers over claims and authorization decisions.

To learn more about this great sample application and download the source code, head over to the Azure Issue Tracker CodePlex project website.

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Tags: cloud computing, open source, service oriented architecture (soa), software+services, windows azure

Microsoft Web Platform Beta

Filed under: ASP.NET | IIS 7 | Microsoft Web Platform | Open Source

22 Oct 2008

Last week, we officially launched the beta release of the Microsoft Web Platform, which includes the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WebPI), and the Microsoft Web Application Installer (WebAI).

The "Web Platform Installer" is a download manager that drastrically simplifies the download process and installation of the Microsoft Web Platform.
The "Web Application Installer" enables the installation of several popular Open Source applications to run on top of Windows.

The installers are available for download from www.microsoft.com/web.

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Web Platform Installer Beta

Web Application Installer Beta

Provides a single destination where developers can learn about the collection of tools, servers and technologies that make up the Microsoft Web Platform.

Aggregates top articles from popular media resources, events, web specific video tutorials and links to products that make up the Microsoft Web Platform. Provides a destination for web professionals to learn about the web with content tailored to their profession.

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta (Web PI) simplifies the setup and acquisition of the products that make up the Microsoft Web Platform. A single install gets you the software you need to build and run a complete web solution on the Microsoft stack.

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including IIS7, SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer.

To help you stay up-to-date with product releases, the Web Platform Installer Beta always contains the most current versions and new additions to the Microsoft Web Platform.

The Microsoft Web Application Installer Beta (Web AI) provides easy access to popular community PHP and .NET web applications for Windows Server. Supported applications include: DotNetNuke, Drupal, Gallery, Graffiti, osCommerce, PHPBB, and WordPress.

The Microsoft Web Application Installer Beta downloads, installs and configures top ASP.NET and PHP community Web applications to run on your Windows Server.

The Microsoft Web Application Installer Beta handles all the detail work for you, including configuring IIS 7, ensuring your computer has the required prerequisites, and managing where to download the application

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Tags: asp.net, microsoft web platform, open source