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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 (16 chapters)
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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook
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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook
Credits
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Credits
Foreword
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Foreword
About the Authors
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About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Installing Windows Server AppFabric
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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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Getting Started with AppFabric Caching
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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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Windows Server AppFabric Caching — Advanced Use Cases
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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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Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Fundamentals
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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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More Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Features
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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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Utilizing AppFabric Persistence
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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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Monitoring Windows Server AppFabric Deployment
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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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Scaling AppFabric Hosting, Monitoring, and Persistence
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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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Configuring Windows Server AppFabric Security
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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

Installing Cache Client Assemblies

For non-production/client environments, we do not need to install the complete Windows Server AppFabric. Instead, we can use Client Assemblies to connect to an instance of AppFabric. In this recipe, we will see how to set up a Client Machine that can connect to and communicate with Windows Server AppFabric. Once we have set up the Client Assemblies, then we can use Visual Studio, for example, to write applications that can use Windows Server AppFabric Caching capabilities.

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Cache Client, as the name implies, refers to the applications or services that can access and modify cached items by connecting to a configured or specified cache cluster.

Getting ready

To set up the Cache Client, you will need the following assemblies:

  • Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.Core.dll

  • Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.Client.dll

  • Microsoft.WindowsFabric.Common.dll

  • Microsoft.WindowsFabric.Data.Common.dll

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For the Windows Server AppFabric Caching Client to be able connect to the Windows Server AppFabric Caching Service, it is required that Client Binaries are of the same version number as that of the Cache Service.

How to do it...

Setting up the Client Caching environment is a very simple task; it is just a matter of copying the binaries highlighted at the start of the recipe to a particular location. These binaries can be obtained by installing Windows Server AppFabric on a workstation. You will need the Caching feature installation to get the required Caching binaries. The default location for these assemblies is .\Windows\System32\AppFabric:

  1. 1. On Windows 7, type C:\Windows\System32\AppFabric in the custom menu; you should be able to see a number of binaries and the configuration file:

  2. 2. Obtain the following assemblies from the Windows Server AppFabric Cache installation:

    • Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.Core.dll

    • Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.Client.dll

    • Microsoft.WindowsFabric.Common.dll

    • Microsoft.WindowsFabric.Data.Common.dll

  3. 3. Copy the assemblies mentioned in step 2 to a place where they are available under a known path to your Client application.

Note

To cache-enable an application server, you will need to install the Windows Server AppFabric Caching Assemblies on it. It is as simple as having an application/service installed on the server along with the AppFabric Caching assemblies. As long as your application installation copies the AppFabric Cache Assemblies and has a valid configuration in place, your application server is Cache enabled.

How it works...

The Windows Server AppFabric Caching Client application requires an API to talk to the Caching Service. This API (provided as a set of assemblies highlighted earlier in this recipe) must be available for the client to program against it. By copying these assemblies on the client machine, we ensure that the client does not need to do a complete installation of Windows Server AppFabric.

Once the Client Assemblies are available, we can write applications that can use AppFabric's Caching capabilities and connect to the AppFabric Caching cluster.

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