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Before we can begin using the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) to decouple our applications from security concerns and enable claims-based identities we need to understand the Resources contained in the Service Namespace and what role they play in the authentication and authorization infrastructure. This brief blog entry is meant to provide you…

Before you begin your Windows Azure development experience in earnest, you should be aware that leaving development and test instances deployed and running in the cloud can be expensive. Be aware that you will be billed for deployed service instances, even if they are suspended, so it is important that you actually remove the instances…

You can find Part 1 here: http://blogs.msdn.com/devpara/archive/2010/03/16/jeffrey-richter-at-devweek-2010-part-1.aspx and Part 2 here: http://blogs.msdn.com/devpara/archive/2010/03/16/jeffrey-richter-at-devweek-2010-part-2.aspx

Idempotency is the mathematical term used to describe a system that produces the same result when a formula or procedure is applied numerous times against the same target. In software systems, this translates to an ability to perform an operation more than one time with knowledge that the resulting state of the system will be…