Azure Service Fabric is Microsoft’s premier platform for building, deploying and managing robust, scalable microservice systems. Central to Azure Service Fabric’s development experience is its microservice-oriented programming model. This model represents a significant departure from the way .NET developers structure their code and their applications today.

In this technical walkthrough, Service Fabric expert Michael ‘Monty’ Montgomery will show you the basics of programming a Service Fabric stateless Remoting service, including installing the 1 Box Setup, creating the appropriate projects, defining a conforming interface, selecting the appropriate listener and implementing the service operations. Along the way, you will learn the basic system structure of a Service Fabric ‘application’ and how that structure relates to defining, configuring, hosting, deploying and ultimately consuming the services associated with it.

Monty will also reveal Windows.SF, a novel, publicly available framework he created that emulates the Service Fabric’s Remoting programming models in .NET on Windows. Windows.SF allows you to write in the style of the Service Fabric, while still deploying to your current environments. Many of Monty’s clients are using Windows.SF right now to prepare their existing .NET codebases for a smooth transition to the Azure Service Fabric.