About Creating stateful services in WCF

Question

I want to create a stateful service in WCF, from the guide http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh239704.aspx, I need to create basic AppFabric application first.

The question is:

In my Visual studio, I can't find the project template for AppFabric. When I want to download Windows Azure AppFabric SDK - June CTP, all the link to this(search from google) are forward to Windows Azure Service Bus EAI & EDI - April 2012 Release.

From the blog, it looks AppFabric was ended in April, there will be no update for this anymore.

Could any one can give me some advices on following questions:

1. How to implement stateful services in WCF? Without AppFabric, how could I do this?

2. What's the diferences between AppFabric and Service Bus EAI & EDI

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

Well AppFabric was renamed to Azure Application Platform. It is a confusing name change.

AppFabric has not been updated much. Version 1.1 is the most recent version.

The Service Bus EAI and EDI product no longer includes "AppFabric" in the name and its functionality is a little different as well. The Service Bus EAI and EDI product currently relates to the Azure Service Bus.

Also, I think your link refers to CompApp which is not really compatible with the Service Bus EAI & EDI package. I think CompApp is sort of hibernated right now.

Thanks,

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Answer 2

Hi ,

AppFabric Applications is not available as part of this CTP . We are herein providing Integration Capabilities (EAI & EDI) on Azure . You can read more about it here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh689864 .

Thanks ,

Harish Kumar Agarwal