Microsoft .NET Services Whitepapers by Pluralsight

Keith Brown, Matt Milner, and I recently wrote a series of whitepapers for Microsoft on their new .NET Services offering, which is part of the Azure Services Platform. The series consists of the following four whitepapers:

• An Introduction to Microsoft .NET Services for Developers (Aaron Skonnard)
  This overview paper introduces Microsoft® .NET Services, each of its building block services, and how they fit together.
• A Developer’s Guide to the Microsoft® .NET Access Control Service (Keith Brown)
  This whitepaper shows developers how to use a claims-based identity model and the Microsoft® .NET Access Control Service to implement single sign-on, federated identity, and role based access control in Web applications and services.
• A Developer’s Guide to the Microsoft® .NET Service Bus (Aaron Skonnard)
  This whitepaper shows developers how to use the .NET Service Bus to provide a secure, standards-based messaging fabric to connect applications across the Internet.
• A Developer’s Guide to the Microsoft® .NET Workflow Service (Matt Milner)
  This whitepaper provides details about the Microsoft® .NET Workflow Service and what developers need to know to begin building workflows for the cloud. It not only explains the current tools and capabilities but also outlines the vision for future releases.

You can download the entire set of whitepapers here.