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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

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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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Handling common Windows Server AppFabric caching errors


Windows Server AppFabric Cache raises exceptions whenever it encounters errors while executing commands issued by its calling clients. Windows Server AppFabric Cache Exceptions also provide additional details (such as error code, and so on) as part of its exception message. These exception details and error codes are used by calling clients to decide their execution path.

Note

A system should continue to work even if it encounters problems with its caching subsystem. Apart from getting data directly from the source, caching clients should also be able to handle caching related exceptions gracefully.

Windows Server AppFabric Cache uses DataCacheException to raise exceptions. DataCacheException exposes ErrorCode and SubStatus properties that provide additional information about the error.

The DataCacheException class looks as follows:

[Serializable]
public class DataCacheException : Exception, ISerializable
{
private int _errorCode = -1...