Azure App Fabric 2011 Starter videos & samples

Azure App Fabric [ 2011 ]

Summary

Benefits:

• Ease of deployment
• Greater developer productivity
• Effortless scale
• Centralized managed and monitoring

CTP includes

• AppFabric Developer Tools
• AppFabric Application Manager
• Composition Model
• Support for running Custom Code, WCF and WF

What you need

Windows Azure AppFabric CTP SDK and Windows Azure AppFabric Tools for Visual Studio

Resources:

Before you start, I recommend watching the following videos:

• Channel 9 announcement video 
• Alan Smith’s webcast
• TechEd 2011 North America video

I also suggest you take a look at the Tutorials and Samples.

The Samples that are available include introductory apps like a StockQuote app that has a Web Front end and then consumes a back end service  to a Contoso Pizza application that includes a Web Front End that consumes a back end service which leverages some WF workflow.

AppFabric.tv - Announcing the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP

from  channel 9

Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric Composite Applications

from  Channel 9http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/COS311