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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

Viewing and classifying events in the AppFabric Dashboard


Windows Server AppFabric significantly enhances the management experience of WCF and WF services by providing fundamental monitoring capabilities out of the box, as well as providing tools for extending the monitoring metrics that are presented in the Windows Server AppFabric Dashboard.

In this recipe, we will walk through the Windows Server AppFabric Dashboard to provide an interactive orientation of the metrics captured for WCF and WF services.

Note

If you would like to learn how to enable monitoring for WCF and/or WF services, please refer to the recipes referenced at the end of this recipe in the section titled See also.

Getting ready

We will use the Reservation Service sample WF application that is available for download as part of the resources available for this book.

Note

As the name of the application suggests, the Reservation Service simulates a restaurant reservation workflow service wherein a patron requests a reservation...