Monthly Archives: February 2012

Setting up the host.exe in a future proof way

I’m about to do some screen casts on NServiceBus and while getting familiar with Camtasia I recorded this short video explaining a better way to setup the NServiceBus.Host.exe within Visual Studio. Hope you like it!  

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Talk – Putting your events on a diet

Last night I did a talk on event design in service oriented architectures with the abstract. A common problem when designing service oriented architectures is that events going across services tend to be very large in terms of properties they carry. This has the negative effect of making development tougher, testing harder and deployment a [...]

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Builtin profiles in NServiceBus

Profiles where introduced in NServiceBus 2.X so this is nothing that is new in 3.0. I’ve blogged about them a while ago but in short they are ways for you to alter the behavior of your endpoint without recompiling your code. This will help you tailor your endpoints for different environments but also controlling things [...]

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Advanced pipeline management using message mutators

The message pipeline in NServiceBus 2.X pretty much consisted of what we called message modules. They served their purpose but didn’t quite give you the full control over the message pipeline needed to do more advanced things. Another major shortcoming was that there was no way to hook into the pipeline at the sending/client side [...]

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