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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

Introduction


Windows Server AppFabric is an extension of the Application server role on the Microsoft Platform. Windows Server AppFabric offers in-memory, super-fast, scalable caching capabilities for web applications and services. For applications built using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Server AppFabric provides streamlined hosting and monitoring capabilities that support composition scenarios.

Windows Server AppFabric is built on top of an existing set of technologies on the Windows platform including, but not limited to Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows Process Activation Service (WAS), .NET Framework v 4.0, and Event Tracing for Windows (ETW).

In this chapter, we will look at how to set up Windows Server AppFabric using the different configuration options. We will also see how the configuration of Windows Server AppFabric can be changed after the installation. Lastly, at the end of the chapter, we will see how to troubleshoot some common problems with Windows Server AppFabric installations.