What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting on the IBus, introduces NServiceBus and shows you how to start using the framework. You will learn how to download the framework and send your first message with it.

Chapter 2, Messaging Patterns, discusses the asynchronous messaging theory and introduces the concept of Publish/Subscribe, showing how we can achieve decoupling by publishing events.

Chapter 3, Preparing for Failure, covers concepts such as automatic retry to give you the ability to build a system that can deal with failures.

Chapter 4, Hosting, shows how to run and configure NServiceBus to run both within its own host process (as a console application or Windows service), and when hosted in a larger application such as a web project.

Chapter 5, Advanced Messaging, delves into advanced topics that will allow you to make the most out of the framework's messaging capabilities.

Chapter 6, Sagas, introduces the long-running business process known as a saga and explains how they are built and tested.

Chapter 7, Advanced Configuration, explains how NServiceBus extends and modifies itself to fit any situation or need.

Chapter 8, The Service Platform, introduces the extra tools that help you to build, debug, and manage a distributed system from development and into production.

Chapter 9, Administration, shows you how to deploy, monitor, and scale a successful NServiceBus system in a production environment.

Chapter 10, Where to Go from Here?, summarizes what you have learned in this book and lists additional sources of information.