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Azure AppFabric Caching development locally

OK,

My question is pretty simple, I am developing an application to deploy on Azure but I don't want to have to pay for any Azure services while developing. There is the local compute and storage emulators, can you use Windows Server AppFabric as a stand in for the actual Azure AppFabric?

I want to be able to flip a switch that changes a release from dev to production and updates the pointers in the config files to the Azure account versus the local dev account.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Brent

Solution

  • You'll need to use Windows Azure AppFabric cache. There's no local equivalent. You can use Windows Server AppFabric Cache, but it's not exactly the same thing.

    With an MSDN subscription, you'll have an included 128MB cache.