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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

Chapter 5. More Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Features

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Hosting long-running workflow services

  • Taking advantage of WAS and Auto-Start

  • Hosting Windows Azure Relay services

  • Using common Server AppFabric hosting commandlets

Introduction

This chapter picks up where the last chapter left off as we move beyond the basic hosting capabilities of Windows Server AppFabric.

Recipes for configuring persistence for supporting long-running workflows, how to configure your WCF and WF services to start without waiting for a message to arrive, and step-by-step guidance for enabling Azure Service Bus Relay bindings for supporting hybrid composite scenarios will enable you to reach beyond the basics and get the most of what Windows Server AppFabric's hosting capabilities have to offer.

While much of this book is focused on the graphical user experience that is one of the extension's key benefits for simplifying hosting and management, this chapter concludes with a recipe that will...