Category Archives: Service Bus

Presentation on Windows Azure Brokered Messaging

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Neil Mackenzie

I did a presentation on Windows Azure Brokered Messaging at the San Francisco Bay Area Azure Developers group – which meets monthly in Microsoft San Francisco. The presentation was based on a post I did on Brokered Messaging. The deck … Continue reading →

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On Not Using owner With the Azure AppFabric Service Bus

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Neil Mackenzie

The Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus team has been good about providing sample code for the various features it develops. There are also a fair number of blog posts (and books) showing how to use these features. Pretty much all … Continue reading →

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Handling Transient Connection Failures in SQL Azure

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Neil Mackenzie

This post is one of the recipes in my book Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook. The recipe describes how to use the Transient Fault Handling Framework to handle transient connection failures when using SQL Azure. The Windows Azure Customer Advisory … Continue reading →

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Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Neil Mackenzie

At Build 2011, Microsoft released the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging feature which has been previewed in the AppFabric Labs environment over the last few months. Service Bus Brokered Messaging provides a sophisticated publish/subscribe mechanism supporting disconnected communication … Continue reading →

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Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Queues and Topics

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Neil Mackenzie

UPDATE 9/21/2011 – This post described the preview of Service Bus Queues and Topics. This feature has now been released into production with a modified API. I have written another post on Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging to … Continue reading →

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Comparing Azure Queues With Azure AppFabric Labs Durable Message Buffers

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Neil Mackenzie

UPDATE 6/9/2011 Durable Message Buffers have been replaced by Service Bus Queues and Topics as described here. This post is now out of date. The Azure AppFabric team made a number of important announcements at PDC 10 including the long-waited … Continue reading →

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