Top 7 Ways to Light Up Your Apps on Windows Server 2008

Whether you are building Web applications or writing core server-based system services, the following top 7 ways provide the basis for leveraging the new and enhanced features of Windows Server® 2008. The listed features are explored in the Windows Server 2008 Developer Story.

1. Build More Flexible Web Applications

   • Internet Information Server 7.0 (IIS7)

   • IIS Manager

2. Build Connected Systems

   • Windows Communication Foundation

   • Windows Workflow Foundation

   • Windows Process Activation Service

   • Microsoft Message Queue 4.0

3. Develop Federation-Aware Applications

   • Active Directory Federation Services

   • Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services

   • Windows Authorization Manager

4. Design Highly Manageable Applications

   • Microsoft Management Console 3.0

   • Windows PowerShell™

   • Windows Task Scheduler 2.0

   • Windows Eventing 6.0

   • Windows Installer 4.0, ClickOnce

5. Develop More Reliable Applications

   • Application Recovery and Restart

   • Restart Manager

   • Transactional NTFS, Transactional Registry, and Kernel Transaction Manager

6. Build Scalable Applications

   • Thread Pool

   • Thread Ordering Service

   • Wait Chain Traversal

7. Leverage Virtualization

   • Hyper-V

Welcome to the Windows Server 2008 Developer Story

Windows Server 2008