James Milne

Understanding AppFabric is critical to creating a platform that will perform quickly and efficiently. Lucky enough Microsoft has released an AppFabric Training Kit.

You can download heaps of great content from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7956

Overview

Windows Server AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS. Windows Server AppFabric targets applications built using ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). This training kit will take you through all the parts of AppFabric and how to develop applications using the capabilities AppFabric provides. The training is broken up into two classes as follows:

• AppFabric Hosting Services
  This 2 day class contains recorded lectures, demos and hands-on-labs targeted at the .NET developer who wants to learn about building services and using the capabilities in AppFabric to host and manage both code based services built using Windows Communications Foundation and Workflow Services using Windows Workflow Foundation. A significant proportion of the class deals with building long running workflow services and dealing with state, correlation, and the management of these services. This class contains 11 modules.
• AppFabric Caching Services
  This 2 day class contains recorded lectures, demos and hands-on-labs targeted at the .NET developer who wants to understand the AppFabric distributed cache, how to program against the cache and how the cache works so that they can use the cache to build more scalable and better performing applications.