Built on top of IIS7 and Windows Process Activation Services (WAS), Windows Server AppFabric provides a premier hosting environment for WCF 4 and WF 4 services. As an extension of IIS 7, Windows Server AppFabric provides key hosting capabilities that are useful to developers who create these services and IT Pros who are tasked with hosting them.
By leveraging a familiar management model while reducing the amount of XML and complex configuration that developers and IT Pros often contend with, Windows Server AppFabric makes deploying and configuring WCF and WF services much simpler than with IIS alone.
By using Windows Server AppFabric, you will immediately benefit from a consistent deployment, hosting, and management experience provided by a graphical administrative user interface that is immediately familiar to developers and IT Pros that are accustomed to working within MMC style tools.
In this chapter, we will explore how to get your WCF and WF services up and running quickly...