Overview

The purpose of this page is to provide a centralized listing of all technical content pertaining to Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus.

Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus provides a hosted, secure, and widely available infrastructure for widespread communication, large-scale event distribution, naming, and service publishing. AppFabric Service Bus provides connectivity options for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and other service endpoints – including REST endpoints -- that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to reach. Endpoints can be located behind network address translation (NAT) boundaries, or bound to frequently-changing, dynamically-assigned IP addresses, or both.

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Index

Topics

Get Started

What is it?

These resources will help you gain a basic understanding of what Service Bus is.

• What are the Access Control and Service Bus? (video)
• An Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Topics (video)
• An Introduction to Service Bus Topics (blog)
• An Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Queues (video)
• An Introduction to Service Bus Queues (blog)
• An Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Relay (video)
• Cloud Cover Episode 47 - Queues and Topics in the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus (video)
• Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus: New Capabilities (video)

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Develop an Application That Uses Service Bus

How can I use it?  

These resources will help you use Service Bus.

• Windows Azure AppFabric Samples
• Service Bus Samples
• AppFabric Service Bus Tutorial
• REST Tutorial for AppFabric Service Bus 
• Windows Azure AppFabric: Using the Service Bus Relay (video)
• Using the Service Bus via REST / HTTP
• AppFabric Service Bus on NuGet and CodePlex
• Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus - 0.5.0.0
• Service Bus Samples CodePlex Site
• A Developer's Guide to Service Bus in Windows Azure AppFabric

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What are the specific tasks that I can do?

These resources provide how-to information to help you accomplish specific tasks. 

• Designing a WCF Contract for the Service Bus
• Configuring a WCF Service to Register with the Service Bus
• Securing and Authenticating an AppFabric Service Bus Connection
• Building a Service for the AppFabric Service Bus
• Building an AppFabric Service Bus Client Application
• Discovering and Exposing an AppFabric Service Bus Service
• Working with an AppFabric Service Bus Message Buffer

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Fix Problems

What are some common issues I might encounter, and how do I resolve them?

These resources provide troubleshooting information.  

• Troubleshooting the AppFabric Service Bus
• Hosting Behind a Firewall with the AppFabric Service Bus
• Sorting out AppFabric Service Bus, Silverlight, and Clientaccesspolicy.xml issue -- hidden gem in Azure AppFabric SDK CTP 2.0 
• Problem adding azure appfabric service bus to communicate between a wcf service and a client
• Understanding the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus [QuotaExceededException] (Updated) 

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