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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 the AppFabric cache management tool


Windows Server AppFabric's PowerShell commandlets offer an extremely powerful tool to configure and manage AppFabric's caching features. There is a PowerShell commandlet for setting each and every option and configuration option available in Windows Server AppFabric cache.

However, the user experience lacks the interactivity of a modern UI-based management console. This is something that most end users have come to expect from a technology like Windows Server AppFabric.

IIS is Microsoft's dashboard and management console for Windows Server AppFabric, but it does not offer any of the cache management tasks.

This has left room for a developer community to:

  • Ask Microsoft for a better experience for managing Windows Server AppFabric caching features

  • Develop their own management console

In this recipe, we will see one developer community effort that has resulted in a very useful tool that helps in managing Windows Server AppFabric's Caching via the streamlined...