Service Bus for Windows Server: A Primer, Part II

November 27, 2013
In my last post on Service Bus for Windows, we covered the overview, installation and configuration of SBWS. Now it’s time to dive into the API and see it in action. The code snippets in this post will focus on Service Bus queues. Beyond queues, Service Bus also supports topics and subscriptions mode to allow independent retrieval with filtered view of the published message stream.

Project References

To set up the development environment, right-click References in Solution Explorer, then click Add Library Package Reference. Search with the “ServiceBus.v” keyword, as there are many service bus related Nuget packages. As of this writing, the latest version is 1.1. Please make sure to download the version consistent with your Service Bus installation.

System.Runtime.Serialization dll is also needed for the code snippets below. Read More…

Service Bus for Windows Server: A Primer

November 6, 2013
An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a shared messaging layer that gives you a consistent, scalable and flexible means of coordinating across disparate, loosely-connected services to execute business processes. Over the years, Microsoft has developed several service bus technologies:

BizTalk: A messaging and workflow orchestration platform to build ESB behaviors and capabilities. The BizTalk ESB toolkit provides a set of guidelines, patterns and tools.

Windows Azure Service Bus (ASB): This provides the messaging infrastructure for applications that live in the cloud, in your data center, and crosses all devices and PCs.

Service Bus for Windows Server (SBWS):  SBWS is based on ASB and shares many of the same capabilities, such as queue, topic and subscription support.  A distinct design goal is to ensure symmetry between SBWS and ASB and allow for a single set of code to be leveraged across both deployment environments.

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