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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

Developing an Instance Query provider


We have already seen Windows Server AppFabric's API for a default SqlInstanceQuery in the first recipe of this chapter. In this recipe, we will learn about implementing a custom Instance Query provider.

Windows Server AppFabric provides an API based on a provider model that allows implementation of a custom Instance Query provider. The process is similar to how we created a custom Instance Store provider in the preceding recipe.

Getting ready

Start Visual Studio 2010 with administrative privileges and create a new class library project using C#.

How to do it...

We will add new class called CustomInstanceStoreProvider, which will implement an abstract base class called InstanceStoreProvider. We will then add the implementation details accordingly.

  1. 1. Rename the default class to CustomInstanceControlProvider.

  2. 2. Add the following assembly references to your project:

    • System.Data.dll

    • System.Configuration.dll

    • Microsoft.ApplicationServer.StoreManagement.dll...