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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

Enabling tracing and evaluating trace logs with WCF


When something goes wrong with a WCF or WF service, it can be very difficult to determine what the problem is.

While the AppFabric Dashboard and Tracked Events viewer are a great first place to turn, sometimes, the only way to really understand what is going on is to probe more deeply into the messaging runtime.

For example, security and serialization exceptions often happen before a message even reaches your code, so relying on exception management inside your code does not always help. Infrastructure related issues such as security and transactions, or transport level issues related to reliable messaging are really out of the reach of what the AppFabric Dashboard is intended to provide.

In addition, sometimes you need to examine a message itself to really get an understanding of what is being sent on the wire.

Both WCF and WF services provide deep insights into what is really happening under the hood with support for diagnostic tracing via...