The next NServiceBus weekly is still coming even though it’s really, really late from the usual every-Wednesday schedule. But I’m on a sick leave, trying to get rid of long-lasting flu. The next release will contain all the news and articles from the last couple weeks.

Welcome! This is the tenth edition of NServiceBus Weekly. Hope you all had a good week.

News

• NServiceBus Updates – Udi Dahan has posted a new blog post where he outlines the latest developments going on in the NServiceBus. The highlighter features include WebSphere MQ and Azure support and the NServiceBus-Contrib gets mentioned too.
• Project Changes - Current revision: 1421. Great amount of commits since the last time. Much of the work done is related to the Azure support but there’s of course more. Browse to the SVN repository to find all the details.

Tutorials and Articles

• Getting Started with NServiceBus Part 8: Message Versioning – Adam Fyles has continued his excellent introduction series. This time he discusses message versioning and topic like backward compatibility.
• Azure Queue Storage support for NServiceBus – Goeleven Yves’ post is the place to go for the NServiceBus’ Azure-support related information. His post goes through the configuration and all the details required to get things running.
• Understanding the transactional behavior of an Azure Message Queue- Another good post by from Goeleven Yves related to the NServiceBus’ Azure-support.  This one contains much of the required background information about the remote queuing s
• Getting the NServiceBus-Contrib project up to speed! – This post highlights the details behind the NServiceBus-Contrib project.
• nServiceBus in n easy steps (really!) – protocollie has posted a long introduction to the NServiceBus. It starts from the theory behind the ESB solutions and then a working sample application is built in small steps.

Community

• NServiceBus-Contrib discussion group – NServiceBus-Contrib’s discussion group is the best place to go if you want to find more information about the Contrib-project.
• NServiceBus-Contrib – NServiceBus-Contrib project at the GitHub has gotten quite much new code since last time. Make sure to check it out.
• NServiceBus: specifying message order – keepitstupid’s question about specifying the message handler order has received many excellent answer, each containing a different approach for the problem.

Thanks for reading and see you again next week.

Got an interesting NServiceBus related link? Did I miss something? Link not working? Please, send mail or contact @MikaelKoskinen.

Welcome to this week’s NServiceBus Weekly. This time we have a nice amount of quality articles and posts so read on to find more details.

News

• CQRS, race conditions, and sagas – oh my! – Skills Matter and Udi Dahan are hosting a free event in London in November 1st. The topics touch NServiceBus from different angles.
• Project Changes - Current revision: 1399. Over ten new revisions last week. Highlights include: Many Azure related changes (for example 1396) and some changes related to the new header management (1397).

Tutorials and Articles

• NServiceBus: ASP.NET Permissions for MSMQ – If you encounter permissions problems when trying to run NServiceBus in an ASP.NET application, make sure to check out this post by Jonathan Oliver.
• Deploying NServiceBus in a Windows Failover Cluster – Excellent and throughout introduction on how to deploy NServiceBus in a Windows Failover Cluster written by David Boike. In his tutorial David shows how to configure NServiceBus distributor, two worker nodes and MSMQ in cluster.
• Manual NServiceBus Configuration – Johnllao continues to explore the NServiceBus, this time he takes a peek at configuring the bus manually.

Community

• NServiceBus callback failure – Scooletz has encountered a likely bug in NServiceBus callback features. Read on for more details.
• Integrating through FTP – Some good discussion on the question presented by Jimmy Bogard.
• How does NServiceBus handle transactions? – Read on to find more info on what NServiceBus will do if the delivery of message fails.
• Problem with .NET 4.0 version of nSB – Chris Nicola would like to share the same message assemblies between the .NET 2.0 and .NET 4.0 clients. Hop in to read the interesting discussion.

Thanks again for those who have contributed to the NServiceBus Weekly by sending  me links or writing these great articles and posts. See you again next week.

Got an interesting NServiceBus related link? Did I miss something? Link not working? Please, send mail or contact @MikaelKoskinen.

New NServiceBus related articles and tutorials were on short supply last week but the project is still actively moving forward.

News

• Project Changes - Current revision: 1386. The revision number is rising quite rapidly. This week the NServiceBus configuration got new options among other things.

Tutorials and Articles

• Getting Started with NServiceBus Part 7: Custom Performance Counters- Adam Fyles once again delights us with an excellent NServiceBus tutorial. This time he goes to more advanced scenarios with performance counters.

Community

• Installing nServiceBus from NuPack?- Installing NServiceBus through the NuPack is not yet supported but maybe some day?
• NServicebus fails on method declarations in message interfaces- Sergei Almazov reported about a problem with method declarations in message interfaces. Fast forward couple days and Andreas Öhlund confirms that this has been fixed in the trunk. If you’ve encountered the bug, you can find  the fix inrevision 1382.

Happy coding!

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Sorry for the rather large delay in this week’s NServiceBus Weekly. Things have been rather hectic lately (see here, here and here) but I’m trying to get back to the normal schedule in the next episode.

News

• Project Changes - Current revision: 1379.  It seems that NServiceBus will get a new configuration model at some point, as pointed out by the revision 1370. Overall, we saw ten new revisions last week so the NServiceBus team isn’t sitting idle.

Tutorials and Articles

• Support for child containers in NServiceBus – Andreas Öhlund reports about a new feature present in the NServiceBus trunk: Support for child containers. Check out Andreas’ post for details and usage tips. Thanks goes to Jonathan Oliver for supplying the feature.
• Getting Started with NServiceBus Part 6: MVC Music Store Saga(Workflow) – Another great post by Adam Fyles, this time concentrating on the saga-support in NServiceBus.
• NServiceBus, WCF and WebService – Frank Mao sheds some light on how to expose NServiceBus as a WCF service.

Community

• Are NServiceBus handler’s members safe for storing message related (and not related) data? – Interesting question asked by Rationalle. From David’s answer we learn that by default, every call on a message handler will happen against a new instance.
• Testing Bus.Send in an application using NServiceBus – Mgamer likes to know how to test methods which call Bus.Send. Check out the answers by arootbeer and Adam Fyles for answers.
• The CQRS Kitchen – Here’s an interesting open source project from Codeplex: The CQRS Kitchen. The project is an example application which demonstrates how one can implement CQRS. NServiceBus is one of the techniques used to implement the app.
• Configure.WithWeb and Spark view engine problems – Dkode8880 is reporting that the Spark view engine for ASP.NET applications doesn’t mix in well with the NServiceBus.
•  How to handle errors and ensure delivery of messages – Read on to find out more information on how NServiceBus and MSMQ try to ensure the delivery of messages.
• Specify a handler to run last – Udi pops in to answer the question presented by jontycurtis. From this thread one can learn why there isn’t support for specifying the last message handler.

See you again in few days.

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