Microsoft Offers a Quick Look at Service Bus Samples for Windows 8

Windows 8 is set to become commercially available only sometime in fall, but Microsoft is already making sure that its platform will be able to provide users with new, appealing applications built in line with the new Metro interface.

Thus, the company released as part of its Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 a sample library for developers interested in accessing Service Bus from Windows 8 metro style applications, along with a sample application that offers info on what basic Service Bus functionality is all about. Through this sample application – Service Bus Sample Browser for Windows 8 – developers can learn more on the functionality of the service bus, while also offering info on the code. The application comes with three simple samples packed inside, namely Service Bus Queues (First In, First Out message queues), Simple Topics (with support for a publish/subscribe communication model), and Peek Lock Sample (a new way to receive messages).

In a recent post on the Windows Azure blog, Microsoft offers details on how the Sample Service Bus Library for Windows 8 works, and also links to details on Service Bus Queues and Service Bus Topics for those who are new to the Service Bus. “Service bus operations fall into one of two classes: Management or Runtime. Management operations are used to Create, Enumerate, Get and Delete service bus entities like Queues, Topics and Subscriptions; Runtime operations are used to Send and Receive messages,” Microsoft explains. The post also goes deep into the manner in which the Sample Service Bus Library for Windows 8 was designed to implement Management Operations, and it also offered specific details on how Runtime Operations are implemented.

Those developers interested in getting started with the Service Bus for Windows 8 should head over to the quick look that Microsoft offers on the Sample Service Bus Library for Windows 8, where they will also find links to other useful resources on the software giant’s website.

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