[This article was contributed by the AppFabric team.]

Last week at the TechEd North America conference we made some exciting announcements regarding the Windows Azure AppFabric May CTP and the upcoming June CTP.

Following are several resource that can help you learn more about these announcements and the related technologies.

Press coverage:

• SDTimes: TechEd: All about clouds and devices
• Redmond Magazine:  Windows Azure Cloud and Devices In the Spotlight at Tech-Ed
• Computerworld:  Microsoft to update AppFabric Tool Set
• Computer Weekly: Microsoft attempts to cement Azure values at TechEd Atlanta
• ZDNet: AppFabric, tailoring the Cloud

You can watch all the TechEd sessions on-demand on Channel 9.

To get a good overview of the announcements you can watch Norm Judah’s foundational session:
From Servers to Services: On-Premise and in the Cloud – AppFabric announcements and cool demos start at minute 25.

To get a high level overview of our middleware strategy and roadmap you can watch Seetharaman Harikrishnan’s session:
An Overview of the Microsoft Middleware Strategy .

Here are the other sessions covering our technologies:

• A Lap around Windows Azure AppFabric
• Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric Composite Applications
• Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus: New Capabilities
• Design Patterns,Practices and Techniques with the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus
• AppFabric Caching: How It Works and When You Should Use It
• Workflow in Windows Azure AppFabric
• Building Highly Scalable and Available WCF Services with Windows Azure AppFabric
• Services Made Easy with WCF 4, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Server AppFabric
• Building State Machine Workflows with Windows Workflow Foundation
• Windows Server AppFabric Cache: A Methodology for Capacity Planning and Analyzing Performance Data
• Windows Communication Foundation Futures
• Windows Communication Foundation RIA: Ready for Business
• Make Yourself Comfortable and REST with Microsoft .NET
• Best Practices for Testing,Deploying and Managing WCF Solutions
• Configuring Microsoft BizTalk Server for Performance

Don’t forget we are also frequently updating our Windows Azure AppFabric Learning Series available on CodePlex which provide an easy way to learn and get started with Windows Azure AppFabric.

We hope you enjoy these sessions. Feel free to leave us feedback on the comments section below!

The AppFabric Team.