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Unity is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container with support for instance and type interception. Microsoft Unity 2.0 Download

Windows Azure AppFabric provides a comprehensive cloud middleware platform for developing, deploying and managing applications on the Windows Azure Platform. It delivers additional developer productivity adding in higher-level Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities on top of the familiar Windows Azure application model. Windows Azure is the underlying operating system for running your cloud services on the Windows Azure AppFabric Platform. The three core services of Windows Azure in brief are as follows:  Compute: The compute or hosting service offers scalable hosting of services on 64-bit Windows Server platform with Hyper-V support. Storage: There are three types of storage supported in Windows Azure: Table Services, Blob Services, and Queue Services. Management : The management service supports automated infrastructure and service management capabilities to Windows Azure cloud services.

Windows Server AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS. Windows Server AppFabric targets applications built using ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Out-of-the-box capabilities to easily build and manage composite applications, including: Enhanced design and development tools in Visual Studio to build rich composite applications Management and monitoring of services and workflows via integration with IIS Manager and Windows PowerShell Distributed in-memory application cache to improve application performance Windows Server AppFabric allows developers to build their next-generation composite applications, and for administrators to host and manage them. It integrates technologies previewed as code name "Dublin" and code name "Velocity". AppFabric components: Runtime Features: Hosting Services : AppFabric ...

Microsoft Touch Mouse for Windows 7

The Microsoft .NET compilers are going to give access to the internals of the compilation pipeline, with handy IDE integration too! Language research on .NET will become easier than ever, permitting new kinds of refactoring and compiler/runtime research. Read more....