Welcome to the Service Bus Samples site!

The Service Bus provides secure messaging and connectivity capabilities that enable building distributed and disconnected applications in the cloud, as well hybrid application across both on-premise and the cloud. It enables using various communication and messaging protocols and patterns, and saves the need for the developer to worry about delivery assurance, reliable messaging and scale.

Service Bus is publicly available in Production for paying customers at http://windows.azure.com. You can also try out some of our latest and greatest features in our Free Labs Environment at http://portal.appfabriclabs.com.

You can use the following resources to learn more about this release and provide feedback:

• Windows Azure AppFabric Overview
• AppFabric Service Bus Documentation on MSDN
• Windows Azure AppFabric CTP Feedback Forum
• Windows Azure AppFabric Team Blog
• AppFabric Service Bus NuGet Package

Service Bus on CodePlex

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