Service Bus

The Windows Azure Service Bus provides a hosted, secure, and widely available infrastructure for widespread communication, large-scale event distribution, naming, and service publishing. 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.

Getting started

To get started and use the features of Services Bus, you need to make sure you have the Windows Azure SDK installed.

Queues

Queues in the AppFabric feature (different from Table Storage queues) offer a FIFO message delivery capability. This can be an outcome for those applications that expect messages in a certain order. Just like with ordinary Azure Queues, Service Bus Queues enable the decoupling of your application components and...