Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

Overview of this book

Windows Server AppFabric provides a set of integrated capabilities that extend IIS and the Windows Server platform making it easier to build, scale and manage composite applications today. Windows Server AppFabric delivers the first wave of innovation within an exciting new middleware paradigm which brings performance, scalability and enhanced management capabilities to the platform for applications built on the .NET Framework using Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation.'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' shows you how to get the most from WCF and WF services using Windows Server AppFabric leveraging the capabilities for building composite solutions on the .NET platform. Packed with over 60 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, 'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' starts by showing you how to set up your development environment to start using Windows Server AppFabric quickly. The book then moves on to provide comprehensive coverage of the most important capabilities provided by Windows Server AppFabric, diving right in to hands-on topics such as deploying WCF and WF applications to Windows Server AppFabric and leveraging the distributed caching, scalable hosting, persistence, monitoring and management capabilities that Windows Server AppFabric has to offer, with recipes covering a full spectrum of complexity from simple to intermediate and advanced.

Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Installing Windows Server AppFabric

Introduction

Installing Windows Server AppFabric

Configuring Windows Server AppFabric (hosting and monitoring)

Configuring Windows Server AppFabric (caching)

Installing Cache Client Assemblies

Changing the Windows Server AppFabric configuration after installation

Starting a Caching service

Troubleshooting Windows Server AppFabric — configuration errors

Troubleshooting Windows Server AppFabric — auto restart issues

Getting Started with AppFabric Caching

Introduction

Initializing Cache Client using code

Initializing Cache Client using configuration

Programming AppFabric Cache Client

Using AppFabric Cache via the ASP.NET provider model

Using AppFabric local cache

Using the AppFabric cache management tool

Building a custom provider model

Handling common Windows Server AppFabric caching errors

Windows Server AppFabric Caching — Advanced Use Cases

Introduction

Using regions in cache

Using tags in cache

Using optimistic concurrency

Using pessimistic concurrency

Setting up expiration

Setting up eviction

Setting up notifications

Using performance counters

Troubleshooting throttling

Troubleshooting eviction

Setting up read through — write behind

Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Fundamentals

Introduction

Installing the Web Deployment tool (Web Deploy)

Packaging services for deployment with Web Deploy

Hosting WCF services

Hosting WCF REST services

Hosting basic workflow services

More Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Features

Introduction

Hosting long-running workflow services

Taking advantage of WAS and Auto-Start

Hosting Windows Azure Relay services

Using common Server AppFabric hosting commandlets

Utilizing AppFabric Persistence

Introduction

Using Windows Server AppFabric workflow persistence

Programmatically querying persisted workflow instances

Programmatically controlling persisted workflow instances

Developing an Instance Store provider

Developing an Instance Query provider

Developing an Instance Control provider

Registering and configuring custom store, query, and control providers

Monitoring Windows Server AppFabric Deployment

Introduction

Collecting events from WCF and WF services

Viewing and classifying events in the AppFabric Dashboard

Enabling tracing and evaluating trace logs with WCF

Creating a customized tracking profile for WF services

Accessing the Monitoring DB

Building a custom dashboard

Using monitoring database cmdlets

Monitoring cache cluster health

Scaling AppFabric Hosting, Monitoring, and Persistence

Introduction

Creating an initial base configuration

Adding and removing servers from the farm

Application deployment on the farm

Configuration and management on the farm

Automating deployment with scripts

Configuring Windows Server AppFabric Security

Introduction

Running caching services using Domain accounts

Setting up security for persistence stores

Securing Windows Server AppFabric's monitoring store

Securing the Event Collection service

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Building a custom provider model

In this recipe we will implement an abstraction on top of Windows Server AppFabric Cache. The idea is to support:

Multiple implementations of a Cache provider
Ability to switch providers via configuration

As Windows Server AppFabric Cache is an external subsystem, it makes sense to have an abstraction around it and have the capability to plug in a suitable implementation at runtime.

Note

Consider a scenario for an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) where their application is built using Windows Server AppFabric Cache. One of their customers does not have Windows Server 2008 so they cannot install Windows Server AppFabric Cache. If ISV was able to implement a provider model such that they could switch Cache implementations via a configuration switch (for example, replacing Windows Server AppFabric Cache with ASP.NET's HttpCache) they would still be able to sell their product to this customer.

Of course, there is a feature cost associated with this type of generalization...

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