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aborted transactions, Transactions, None transaction mode

absolute addresses, The Metadata Exchange Endpoint

ACID properties, Transaction Properties

ACS (Access Control Service), The Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus, Service Bus Authentication, Message security and credentials

Address structure, Composite Data Contracts

addresses, Addresses, Addresses, Addresses, Addresses, TCP Addresses, HTTP Addresses, IPC Addresses, MSMQ Addresses, Service Bus Addresses, Endpoints

elements of, Addresses

endpoints and, Endpoints

examples, Addresses

format, Addresses

HTTP addresses, HTTP Addresses

IPC or named pipes addresses, IPC Addresses

MSMQ addresses, MSMQ Addresses

Service Bus addresses, Service Bus Addresses

TCP addresses, TCP Addresses

transport schemes, Addresses

AddressesContainer<T> class, Description

administrative configuration, Programmatic Versus Administrative Configuration

AffinitySynchronizer class, Thread Affinity, Description

aliasing, Operation Overloading, Data Contract Attributes, Enumerations

EnumMember attribute, Enumerations

operation overloading, Operation Overloading

Serializable attribute and, Data Contract Attributes

ambient transactions, The Ambient Transaction, Setting the Ambient Transaction

defined, The Ambient Transaction

setting, Setting the Ambient Transaction

AnnouncementClient class, Announcing Endpoints

AnnouncementService class, Receiving Announcements

AnnouncementSink<T> class, The announcements sink, Description

anonymous calls, Anonymous calls, Streamlining Transfer Security

App.config file, Self-Hosting

AppFabric, Windows Server AppFabric, The Service Bus

Server, Windows Server AppFabric

Service Bus, The Service Bus

ArrayExtensions class, Description

ASMX web services, The Common Bindings

AspNetSqlProviderService class, Description

AsyncCallbackException, The IAsyncResult interface

asynchronous calls, Asynchronous Calls–Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Calls, Asynchronous Calls, Requirements for an Asynchronous Mechanism, Proxy-Based Asynchronous Calls, Asynchronous Invocation, Polling or Waiting for Completion–Polling or Waiting for Completion, Polling or Waiting for Completion–Polling or Waiting for Completion, Completion Callbacks–Completion callback synchronization context, One-Way Asynchronous Operations, One-Way Asynchronous Operations, Asynchronous Error Handling, Asynchronous Calls and Transactions, Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Calls, Buffers Versus Queues

completion callbacks, Completion Callbacks–Completion callback synchronization context

concurrency management, Asynchronous Calls–Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Calls

defined, Asynchronous Calls

error handling, Asynchronous Error Handling

invoking, Asynchronous Invocation

one-way operations, One-Way Asynchronous Operations, One-Way Asynchronous Operations, Buffers Versus Queues

polling, Polling or Waiting for Completion–Polling or Waiting for Completion

proxy-based, Proxy-Based Asynchronous Calls

requirements, Requirements for an Asynchronous Mechanism

synchronous calls and, Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Calls

transactions and, Asynchronous Calls and Transactions

waiting for completion, Polling or Waiting for Completion–Polling or Waiting for Completion

asynchronous operation invocation, Asynchronous Calls

AsyncOneWayClientBase<T> class, One-Way Asynchronous Operations, Description

AsyncResult interface, Polling or Waiting for Completion, Cleaning up after End<Operation>()

AsyncWaitHandle property, Polling or Waiting for Completion, Cleaning up after End<Operation>()

auditing, security, Security Auditing–Declarative Security Auditing

authentication, Authentication, Authentication, Transfer Security, Authentication, Service Bus Authentication–Client-side metadata processing

definition, Authentication

intranet, Authentication

mutual, Transfer Security

security and, Authentication

service bus, Service Bus Authentication–Client-side metadata processing

authorization, Authorization, Authorization–Programmatic role-based security

auto-start services, Windows Server AppFabric

automatic synchronization, Concurrency Management

Azure AppFabric Service Bus, The Service Bus (see service bus)