Microsoft Dublin ( Microsoft WCF/WF Application Host )

WOW, I was expecting this in a few weeks but Microsoft have just announced that .NET 4.0 will include new versions of WCF and WF , with new stateful and conversational services and significantly improved designers.

The new version of WF includes a 10 times performance increase , new flow control models including a large number of built in activities ( including but not limited to power shell , db and messaging ) , compos able rules and the ability to debug XAML

WCF  includes transports for UDP, MQ , in process :). Unified XAML model with WF allowing.

Microsoft is also introducing a set of enhanced Windows Server capabilities codenamed “Dublin” that provides greater scalability and easier manageability, and will extend Internet Information Services (IIS) to provide a standard host for applications that need a standard host for WCF and WF**.**

Dublin offers message based correlation and forwarding.  Dublin has an easy to uses interface which allows setup of scale out , management and monitoring and support from the Oslo modelling platform

I expect that a CTP will be available soon and it looks like there will be support for .NET 3.5. Dublin will be made available to download and included in later versions of windows server

To clarify a point, Dublin is the first of the products that were originally mentioned as a part of the OSLO wave platform, as the Oslo Application Host.

The official Microsoft information is HERE

in this short post I have not done justice to Dublin , I will post more over the following weeks

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