Recently Microsoft released a new App Fabric SDK 2.0 CTP including some great new features, You can grab all the bits and pieces from here and/or read the release notes . Some of the highlights include: Publish/Subscribe which are called Topics Message Queues Visual Studio Tools AppFabric Application Manager Support for running WCF & WF The part that interested me the most is the Queues feature and that is what I’m going to be exploring in this post. Overview of Queues Message Queues are not a new concept allow for more reliable and scalable communication between distributed systems than pure request/response. Solutions like MSMQ, NServiceBus already exist to solve this problem for locally connected systems. What the Queues API provides is that it provides similar features but the messages are being transported across the internet and persisted in the cloud. There is currently a Message Buffer available in Azure b...