Hoping someone else has already encountered this and has a solution... I'm trying to install the AppFabric Beta 1 caching service, on a virtual Windows Server 2008 (CacheServer1). My cache configuration information will be held in a SQL Server database on a separate server (SQLServer). As AppFabric only supports Integrated Security for ...
Microsoft released a beta of Windows Server AppFabric that "makes it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS". MS has also said that you can deploy AppFabric on your own servers, on a 3rd party host and on Windows Azure. So far we haven't done any Azure development mostly because the API diffe...
I had my first go at AppFabric - caching (aka Ms Velocity) today and checked out msdn virtual labs. https://cmg.vlabcenter.com/default.aspx?moduleid=4d352091-dd7d-4f6c-815c-db2eafe608c7 There is this code sample in it that I dont get. It creates a cache object and stores it in session state. The documentation just says: We need to...
I have a service based architecture where a web farm full of asp clients hit application server farm of WCF services. Obviously all the database access is done by the WCF services. Now I would like to cache my frequently used database retrieved objects using Velocity at the service tier level. I am considering to make each physical appli...
I understand that AppFabric has both caching capabilities along with hosting WCF/WF services. I have seen Windows Activation Service used interchangeably with AppFabric when talking about hosting services on IIS 7.0 Are both one and the same? ...
I get the following error message when I try to use svcutil to generate a client proxy for a xamlx file that is hosted by AppFabric beta 2: Two different contracts have the same ConfigurationName I understand the message, however, I cannot find its cause or how to fix it. I'm following the 'Introduction to Workflow Services' lab from t...
Trying to figure out the best way to easily connect a bunch of client machines running WCF service to a LAMP server on a wide area network.... Currently just set up set up each client with DynDNS, and port forwarding at the router... Absolutely not the best situation for deployment. Ideally would like to have a simple program they run ...
Hello, I am new to using AppFabric to host WF services. I am trying to write a workflow admin application that will allow users to create xaml workflow definitions using the hosted WF4 designer, and then somehow allow those workflow defitions to be automatically deployed and hosted in AppFabric with the click of a button. I have the de...
I'm producing an application with a few peculiar internal communication characteristics that make the usual suspects for data storage and transport (Qs and RDBMSs) ill-fitted. I'm wondering whether there is a product out there that matches the following characteristics: all data put into it is peristent all reads are delivered out of m...
We need to think big and our applications need to scale in order to work on the Windows Azure Platform. But how do I simulate a crash of one of the VMs running my application? I want to see (debug) how my application behaves in such environment. ...
Are there powershell commands to: Get a list of items in the cache Remove a particular item Remove all items Change the value for a particular key I haven't come across a nice blog or tutorial for beginners to get started with Appfabric caching administration. Thanks! ...
I am looking to use MS-Velocity a.k.a Appfabric Cache in a project that is starting by next month (so I am also assuming Q3 will have a go-live license). The project is a web application which will have at least 40K users in 6 months down. And we know for sure that cache server can be of only one node to start with and we will scale hori...
Hello, I have a WF4 workflow service deployed in AppFabric. Is there any built-in way to do a generic search across all currently active workflow instances? For example, "get me a list of all active instances that have variable x = 5"? If someone could point me in the right direction on this it would be much appreciated. ...
I've been playing around with AppFabric Beta 2's session state provider. It appears that each new session get its own region (named "Default_Region_XXXX" (where XXXX is an apparent random sequence of numbers). If I understand regions correctly, it appears that each region is tied to a single cluster host, leaving a single point of fail...
Hi, i have developed a wf-wcf services with a code activity and in it i want to retrive the current url of the service. If i disabling the persistence feature of appfabric i can retrive the url using HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.ToString() If the persistence feature is enabled the httpcontext is null. There is a different way to...
I want to use AppFabric (Velocity) as the Disk Caching Provider to work with ASP.NET 4.0's extensible output caching feature. But when I installed the AppFabric, I found it is incredibly hard to configure and I have no idea how can I make my ASP.NET app to work with it. So I was wondering is there a easy to understand tutorial for config...
I have a multi-threaded, continuously running application that connects with multiple devices via TCP/IP sockets and exposes a set of WCF API's for controlling, monitoring and reporting on these devices. I would like to host this on IIS for the usual reasons of not having to worry about re-starting the app in case of errors. So the i...
I'm trying to get AppFabric cache up and running on my local development environment. I have Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh installed, and the cache cluster and host configured and started running on Windows 7 64-bit. I'm running my MVC2 website in a local IIS website under a v4.0 app pool in integrated mode. HostName : CacheP...
Hello! Can Windows Server AppFabric Caching share one session between 2 or more different Web Applications? How can i do this? ...
It is possible to use appfabric for non web/asp.net caching ? say instead of ncache/memcached etc. ...