It provides out-of-the-box capabilities for you to easily build and manage composite applications, including:
- Enhanced design and development tools in Visual Studio to build rich composite applications
- Management and monitoring of services and workflows via integration with IIS Manager and Windows PowerShell
- Distributed in-memory application cache to improve application performance
Windows Server AppFabric allows developers to build their next-generation composite applications, and for administrators to host and manage them. It integrates technologies previewed as code name “Dublin” and code name “Velocity”.
One of the great truths of building software is this: Application developers shouldn’t spend their time creating infrastructure. Even though every application needs some supporting services, the people who write those applications ought to focus solely on creating value for their users. Whatever infrastructure is required should be provided by the platform they’re building on.
Given this, one way to improve a platform is to provide better application infrastructure. This is exactly the goal of Windows Server AppFabric. By providing a set of extensions to Windows Server, Microsoft aims at making it easier for Windows developers to create faster, more scalable, and more manageable applications.
The first release of Windows Server AppFabric has two parts:
AppFabric Caching Services, which can speed up access to frequently accessed information such as session data used by an ASP.NET application.
AppFabric Hosting Services, making it easier to run and manage services created with Windows Communication Foundation, especially those built using Windows Workflow Foundation.
Windows Server AppFabric is provided as extensions to the Application Server role of Windows Server, and an application is free to use its parts separately or together.
This training kit contains a complete set of materials that will enable you to learn the core capabilities in Windows Server AppFabric. The kit has two main sections, one for the AppFabric Hosting capabilities and the other for the AppFabric Caching capabilities. There is also an option below to download a Virtual Machine that is ready for you to use with the training kit.
Get Windows Server AppFabric Training Kit
Get Windows Server AppFabric for Windows Server 2008/7/Vista
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