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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

By : Hammad Rajjoub
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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

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By: Hammad Rajjoub
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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 (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Installing Windows Server AppFabric
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1. Installing Windows Server AppFabric
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Introduction
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Installing Windows Server AppFabric
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Configuring Windows Server AppFabric (hosting and monitoring)
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Configuring Windows Server AppFabric (caching)
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Installing Cache Client Assemblies
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Changing the Windows Server AppFabric configuration after installation
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Starting a Caching service
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Troubleshooting Windows Server AppFabric — configuration errors
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Troubleshooting Windows Server AppFabric — auto restart issues
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2. Getting Started with AppFabric Caching
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2. Getting Started with AppFabric Caching
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Introduction
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Initializing Cache Client using code
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Initializing Cache Client using configuration
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Programming AppFabric Cache Client
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Using AppFabric Cache via the ASP.NET provider model
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Using AppFabric local cache
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Using the AppFabric cache management tool
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Building a custom provider model
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Handling common Windows Server AppFabric caching errors
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3. Windows Server AppFabric Caching — Advanced Use Cases
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3. Windows Server AppFabric Caching — Advanced Use Cases
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Introduction
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Using regions in cache
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Using tags in cache
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Using optimistic concurrency
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Using pessimistic concurrency
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Setting up expiration
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Setting up eviction
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Setting up notifications
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Using performance counters
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Troubleshooting throttling
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Troubleshooting eviction
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Setting up read through — write behind
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4. Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Fundamentals
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4. Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Fundamentals
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Introduction
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Installing the Web Deployment tool (Web Deploy)
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Packaging services for deployment with Web Deploy
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Hosting WCF services
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Hosting WCF REST services
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Hosting basic workflow services
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5. More Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Features
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5. More Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Features
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Introduction
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Hosting long-running workflow services
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Taking advantage of WAS and Auto-Start
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Hosting Windows Azure Relay services
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Using common Server AppFabric hosting commandlets
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6. Utilizing AppFabric Persistence
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6. Utilizing AppFabric Persistence
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Introduction
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Using Windows Server AppFabric workflow persistence
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Programmatically querying persisted workflow instances
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Programmatically controlling persisted workflow instances
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Developing an Instance Store provider
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Developing an Instance Query provider
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Developing an Instance Control provider
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Registering and configuring custom store, query, and control providers
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7. Monitoring Windows Server AppFabric Deployment
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7. Monitoring Windows Server AppFabric Deployment
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Introduction
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Collecting events from WCF and WF services
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Viewing and classifying events in the AppFabric Dashboard
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Enabling tracing and evaluating trace logs with WCF
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Creating a customized tracking profile for WF services
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Accessing the Monitoring DB
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Building a custom dashboard
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Using monitoring database cmdlets
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Monitoring cache cluster health
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8. Scaling AppFabric Hosting, Monitoring, and Persistence
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8. Scaling AppFabric Hosting, Monitoring, and Persistence
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Introduction
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Creating an initial base configuration
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Adding and removing servers from the farm
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Application deployment on the farm
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Configuration and management on the farm
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Automating deployment with scripts
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9. Configuring Windows Server AppFabric Security
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Introduction
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Running caching services using Domain accounts
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Setting up security for persistence stores
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Securing Windows Server AppFabric's monitoring store
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Securing the Event Collection service
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Installing Windows Server AppFabric

Windows Server AppFabric is an extension of the Application Server role on the Windows platform. At the time of this writing there are two ways to install Windows Server AppFabric. One is the standard direct install and the other is using Microsoft's new and exciting Web Platform Installer (WPI).

In this recipe, we will go through the step-by-step instructions to install Windows Server AppFabric using WPI. Needless to say, if you already have Windows Server AppFabric installed on your machine, then you can skip this recipe.

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WPI is the preferred approach because it streamlines the installation process by smartly identifying and installing the prerequisite software.

Getting ready

Windows Server AppFabric can be installed on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 SP 2, Windows Vista R2, and Windows Server 2008 R2 (it supports both 32 and 64 bit architectures). You will also need Microsoft .NET Framework v4, IIS7, and Windows PowerShell 2.0. In terms of hardware, officially, any 1GHz+ CPU (900MHz+ for Dual Core and 700MHz+ for Quad Core) with 2 GB of RAM will be sufficient to get up and running with Windows Server AppFabric. However, it is recommended that you have at least 4 GB of RAM to run Windows Server AppFabric.

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If you want to try Windows Server AppFabric before actually installing it on your host machine, it makes sense to use a virtual machine that has Windows Server AppFabric installed on it so that you can play with it. The good news is that Microsoft has made a preconfigured Windows Server AppFabric VM available on MSDN that can be downloaded and used with Microsoft's Virtual PC. This download is available as a part of Microsoft's training kit for Windows Server AppFabric. The download is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=7956.

How to do it...

WPI offers a highly streamlined package/software download installation mechanism. You can get WPI from Microsoft's website at: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx. After downloading and installing WPI, you can use the following steps to launch Windows Server AppFabric Installer:

  1. Under the Start menu, go to All Programs. If you are using Windows 7, type Web Platform Installer in the custom menu item, find the WPI as shown in the following screenshot, and launch it:
    How to do it...
  2. Accept the User Account Control (UAC) warning. This will allow WPI to make changes to your computer.
  3. Click on Next at the bottom of the screen to get started with the WPI.
  4. Type AppFabric in the search box (in the top right-hand corner of the screen) and press the Enter key:
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  5. This will reveal a search result showing Windows Server AppFabric. Click on Add and then on Install to continue:
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  6. Now, WPI will ask to review the download and install of all the required software components to run Windows Server AppFabric. Select I Accept to continue.
    How to do it...

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    The list of components, third-party application software, and Microsoft products will vary from machine to machine. WPI will determine the missing software and will list it on this screen.

  7. Once you select I Accept, WPI will download and install all the required software components one by one. Sometimes this may result in multiple reboots for the host machine.
  8. Once all the required software components are installed, the Windows Server AppFabric installation will be complete. Click on Finish:
    How to do it...

How it works...

The Windows Server AppFabric installation adds three new Windows services: AppFabric Caching Service, AppFabric Event Collection Service, and AppFabric Workflow Management Service, for caching, monitoring, and hosting scenarios respectively. These services can be seen when the Services Snap-in is launched from the Control Panel (or by typing Services.msc in the search box under the Windows Start menu).

How it works...

As we can see in the preceding screenshot, only AppFabric Event Collection Service and AppFabric Workflow Management Service have Status as Started and have Startup Type defined as Automatic. By default, Windows Server AppFabric Caching Service is not available for use after a machine reboot.

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AppFabric Event Collection Service, AppFabric Workflow Management Service, and Windows Server AppFabric Caching Service form the heart of Windows Server AppFabric. These services work in the background and perform tasks such as collecting events, managing the workflow's life cycle, connecting to the cache cluster, and serving cache related requests.

Once Windows Server AppFabric is installed, the next step is to configure it using the Windows Server AppFabric Configuration wizard.

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