New Release: patterns & practices WCF Security Guide

New Release: patterns & practices WCF Security Guide Using end-to-end application scenarios, this guide shows you how to design and implement authentication and authorization in WCF. You'll learn how to improve the security of your WCF services through prescriptive guidance including guidelines, a Q&A, practices at a glance, and step-by-step how to articles.

Microsoft Cloud Computing Tools

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual StudioWindows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the creation, building, debugging, running, and packaging of scalable services on Windows Azure.
How Do I: Get Started Developing on Windows Azure?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/azure/dd327648(en-us).aspx

Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - February 2009

The Composite Client Application Guidance is designed to help you more easily build modularWindows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications.
These types of applications typically feature multiple screens, rich, flexible user interaction and data visualization, and role-determined behavior. - MSDN

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fa07e1ce-ca3f-4b9b-a21b-e3fa10d013dd&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Silverlight (this is required only if you are creating Silverlight applications)
Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (this is required only if you are creating Silverlight applications)

Microsoft Virtual Earth on Windows Azure

Microsoft Virtual Earth on Windows Azure - http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2009/02/18/microsoft-virtual-earth-on-windows-azure.aspx by Chris.

Deep Earth

DeepEarth is a mapping control powered by the combination of Microsoft’s Silverlight 2.0 platform and the DeepZoom (MuliScaleImage) control. If you want a interactive, native Silverlight 2.0, map in your application, go ahead with this control. Really a nice one! This provides Microsoft Virtual Earth in a Silverlight UX allowing for nice UI and scalable map.
Features include:
1. Fully implemented map control with property and event model
2. Fully templated set of map navigation controls
3. Layers for inclusion of Points, LineStrings and Polygons (Modeled after OGC)
4. Conversion library for geography to screen coordinate systems.
5. Geocoding (find an address)
6. Reverse Geocoding (getting an address from a point on the map)
7. Routing (Directions)
8. Marque zoom selection (default Ctrl-click and drag or from menu toggle)
9. Map rotation
Get Started
Download the latest release
Visit our online sample site
High Resolution Video
How to setup the solution
Useful Resources

CAT.NET Community Technology Preview and Anti-XSS 3.0 Beta

Download CAT.NET Community Technology Preview and Anti-XSS 3.0 Beta - Check these two great free tools - Download Anti-XSS 3.0 Beta here http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11083374&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 - Download CAT.NET CTP here http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11083375&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474
CAT.NET - Community Technology PreviewCAT.NET is a managed code static analysis tool for finding security vulnerabilities. It's the same tool we use internally to scan all of our line of business applications; it runs as a Visual Studio plug-in or stand-alone application. You can download the current CTP build from MSDN here and submit bugs and feedback to our Connect site here.

Anti-XSS 3.0 - BetaCross Site Scripting (XSS) continues to plague websites and among others things has become a common attack vector for Phishing attacks to distribute payloads to unsuspecting users. With this release, we have taken a fresh look at how to provide protection to ASP.NET applications. You can download the current beta binaries from MSDN here and source code from CodePlex here and You can submit bugs and feedback directly to our CodePlex site here. http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11083376&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11083377&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11083378&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Project Silk Road

Project Silk Road - “Project Silk Road” which is a collection of services, including a new version of the Live Search APIs for developer community – basically Search API 2.0 Beta + Search Ads pilot.

The Live Search API 2.0 Beta enables you to embed as a custom component a flexible and powerful search engine on your sites and applications. With the addition of XML (POX) and JSON formats, as well as the previously supported SOAP API, the Live Search API 2.0 Beta allows you to integrate the power of search using the code and formatting you choose.

Live Search API 2.0 exposes the power of the Live Search engine through an easy-to-use HTTP accessible endpoint, an RSS feed, or a SOAP API.

Check here: http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2008/11/13/the-next-step-in-search.aspx