Microsoft .NET Services is part of the Azure Services Platform. Microsoft .NET Services includes two services: the Access Control Service and the Service Bus.
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Overview
This SDK includes API libraries and samples for building connected applications with the .NET platform. It spans the entire spectrum of today’s Internet applications – from rich connected applications with advanced connectivity requirements to Web-style applications that use simple protocols such as HTTP to communicate with the broadest possible range of clients.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP
Account Requirements
Before running the samples in the SDK, you must have a Microsoft .NET Services project and one or more service namespaces. To create a .NET Services project and service namespace, please click here.
Runtime Requirements
The Microsoft .NET Services SDK samples are available as Visual Studio 2008 solutions (C# and VB) and require Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or higher to run. The SDK is supported on Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP operating systems. Some Access Control Service samples require IIS 7.0.
You can double-click the MSI and use the wizard to install the SDK, or you can use the command line. If the latter,
To install with all the defaults, run: msiexec /I NetServicesSDK.msi /qn
To install in a custom folder run the following command line: msiexec /I NetServicesSDK.msi APPLICATIONFOLDER=C:\CustomFolder /qn, where C:\CustomFolder is the drive and path where you want the application to install
To install everything but the samples: msiexec /I NetServicesSDK.msi INSTALL_SAMPLES=0 /qn
To repair the current install, run: msiexec /I NetServicesSDK.msi REINSTALL=ALL /qn. Note that even if REINSTALL is set to ALL, only those features that were already installed previously are reinstalled
To uninstall from command line you just run: msiexec /X NetServicesSDK.msi /qn
To remove samples, use: msiexec /I NetServicesSDK.msi REMOVE=Feature_Samples /qn
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