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Distributed .NET with Microsoft Orleans

You're reading from   Distributed .NET with Microsoft Orleans Build robust and highly scalable distributed applications without worrying about complex programming patterns

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818971
Length 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bhupesh Guptha Muthiyalu Bhupesh Guptha Muthiyalu
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Suneel Kumar Kunani Suneel Kumar Kunani
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Preface 1. Section 1 - Distributed Applications Architecture
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Distributed Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Cloud Architecture and Patterns for Distributed Applications 4. Section 2 - Working with Microsoft Orleans
5. Chapter 3: Introduction to Microsoft Orleans 6. Chapter 4: Understanding Grains and Silos 7. Chapter 5: Persistence in Grains 8. Chapter 6: Scheduling and Notifying in Orleans 9. Chapter 7: Engineering Fundamentals in Orleans 10. Section 3 - Building Patterns in Orleans
11. Chapter 8: Advanced Concepts in Orleans 12. Chapter 9: Design Patterns in Orleans 13. Section 4 - Hosting and Deploying Orleans Applications to Azure
14. Chapter 10: Deploying an Orleans Application in Azure Kubernetes 15. Chapter 11: Deploying an Orleans Application to Azure App Service 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating your first Orleans application

It is time for us to create our first Orleans application. In this section, we are going to build a simple hotel grain, which will greet a guest. A typical Orleans solution structure contains a host application (it could be a console application, a web application, or a native application) that has the Orleans runtime and hosts grain activations, grain interfaces, and grain implementations.

Let's follow these steps to create our first Orleans solution:

Step 1: Create solution:

  1. Create a new solution using the template Blank Solution in Visual Studio and name it Distel.

Step 2: Define grain interfaces: Grain interfaces define the different types of grains involved and their behavior:

  1. Add a new project to this solution using the project template Class Library, name it Distel.Grains.Interfaces, and select the target framework .NET6.
  2. To this project, add the following NuGet references:
    Microsoft.Orleans.CodeGenerator...
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