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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


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...