Summary

In this chapter, we saw that AppFabric offers some very interesting features. We also saw how to set up Service Bus queuing and how to send and receive messages to and from it. In addition, topics and subscriptions were explained, together with some code snippets.

We learned how we can add caching capabilities to our application quickly and how to fine-tune this. We demonstrated the configuration of Windows Azure caching and saw how to programmatically use caching features.

The next subject covered was the Windows Azure Connect feature. This is an interesting method to build hybrid cloud solutions that mix web and worker roles together with local, on-premise servers, virtual machines, or anything else that has an IP address.

We also covered the Access Control Service that is part of AppFabric and we saw how to build a claims-aware application and how to integrate our solution with an Identity Provider, such as Facebook.

Finally, we went through the Windows Azure Traffic Manager and...