.Net Services November 2009 CTP

The .Net Services team has made a November 2009 CTP release of the SDK for their portion of the Azure Services Platform. As mentioned over the summer, .Net Services has pared down their work on routers, queues, and relays to focus on delivering the access control service and service bus. These two services are also what the team will be focusing on at PDC.

The service bus is an infrastructure piece for connecting together different components in a distributed application. The access control service, now more oriented around REST, allows integration of those connected components with identity providers. Both services have changed quite a bit as described by the breaking changes list from the previous CTP.

The announcement for the CTP also covers how the transition from a beta product to a production service will take place.