In this blog post we are going to explore some of the new functoids that are available in the Azure Service Bus Mapper. At first glance, the Mapper looks pretty similar to the BizTalk 2010 Mapper. Sure there are some different icons, perhaps some lipstick applied but conceptually we are dealing with the same thing right? Wrong! It isn’t until we take a look at … Continue reading Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI December 2011 CTP – New Mapper
I have recently been informed that my session abstract has been accepted and I will be speaking at Prairie Dev Con West in March. My session will focus on Microsoft’s Cloud based Middleware platform: Azure AppFabric. In my session I will be discussing topics such as Service Bus, AppFabric Queues/Subscriptions and bridging on-premise Line of Business systems with cloud based integration. You can read more … Continue reading Speaking at Prairie Dev Con West–March 2012
I must have missed it in the release notes but when you have access to the AppFabric Apps CTP, you are only allowed on SQL Azure instance within this Labs environment. When you first log into the Portal you will see a SQL Azure DB that has a name of LabsSqlDatabase. The problem is that you can’t actually create another one here and if you … Continue reading AppFabric Apps (June 2011 CTP)–Only 1 SQL Azure Instance at a time
I recently watched an episode of AppFabric TV where they were discussing the REST API for Azure AppFabric. I thought the ability to access the AppFabric Service Bus, and therefore other Azure AppFabric services like Queues, Topics and Subscriptions via REST was a pretty compelling scenario. For example, if we take a look at the “Power Outage” scenario that I have been using to demonstrate … Continue reading AppFabric Apps (June 2011 CTP) Accessing AppFabric Queue via REST
(…Continued from Part 1, if you have not read it please do so to understand the context of this post) Solution We want customers to be able to submit power outages to our fictitious power company located in the Redmond, Washington area. What is different this time around(from our Queue scenario) is that due to the growth in the Kirkland, Washington area we have subcontracted … Continue reading AppFabric Apps (June 2011 CTP) Simple Service Bus Topics–Part 2
In my last post we discussed using Azure AppFabric Queues as part of Azure AppFabric Applications. In this post, we will discuss a couple of related Queue technologies called Topics and Subscriptions. The purpose of this post will be to describe the conceptual behavior of Topics and Subscriptions and then in a follow up post actually dive into a detailed example of how we can … Continue reading AppFabric Apps (June 2011 CTP) Simple Service Bus Topics–Part 1
In this post we are going to be discussing a simple app and how this app can communicate with a Service Bus Queue. Service Bus Queues and Topics(will save this for a future post) were introduced in the May 2011 Service Bus CTP. While Queuing is far from a new topic, the idea of providing a durable Queue in the cloud is a relatively new … Continue reading AppFabric Apps (June 2011 CTP) Simple Service Bus Queue App
In my last post we walked through deploying a simple Azure AppFabric Application that consisted of an ASP.Net Web application and a Workflow Service. In this post we are going to walk through some of the features that are available within Application Manager that is available in the Azure AppFabric June 2011 CTP. Application Manager is not something that is included in the Local Dev … Continue reading Monitoring and Managing a Simple Azure AppFabric Application
In this post we are going expand upon an earlier post that dealt with building a Simple Workflow App. In this post we are going to deploy the Simple Workflow app and discover how the Application Manager works in the Azure AppFabric Labs environment. To deploy our application from Visual Studio we are going to right mouse click on our AppFabric Application and select Publish. … Continue reading AppFabric Apps (June 2011 CTP) – Deploying Simple Workflow App
In this post, I am going to walk you through creating a very simple AppFabric Application that includes invoking a Workflow. Since I still don’t have access to the Labs environment(*hint Microsoft hint*) this demo will run in the local dev fabric. The first step is to create a new project in Visual Studio 2010 and select AppFabric Application. The User Interface for our application … Continue reading AppFabric Apps (June 2011 CTP) – Simple Workflow App
Middleware In The Cloud 