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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

Using Windows Server AppFabric workflow persistence


Once the Windows Server AppFabric is installed successfully on the host machine, workflow services can start leveraging the underlying hosting, monitoring, and persistence features.

In this recipe, we will learn how persistence is enabled for workflow instances running on IIS/WAS. We will specifically focus on the following three related tasks:

  • Workflow persistence configuration using AppFabric Dashboard

  • Invoking a workflow service using WCF Test Client

  • Viewing workflow instances using AppFabric Dashboard

Note

Services built with WCF Service Application, WCF Workflow Application, and WCF Service-Based Website project templates in Visual Studio are managed by Window Server AppFabric by default.

For the sake of simplicity, we will use a sample workflow service available for download at MSDN via Windows Server AppFabric Samples (at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=19603).

Note

We are using an existing sample so that we...