The Basics

• Endpoint
• ServiceBus
• Consumers
• Messages
• Containers (IoC)
• Host (Now Topshelf)

Intermediate

• Correlation
• Sagas
• Conversations
• Control Bus
• Dead Letters
• Poison Letters
• Competing Consumer

Features

Standard Services

Serialization Formats Supported

• .Net Binary
• .Net XML
• JSON via JSON.Net
• Looking at Google's Protocol Buffers

Transports Supported

• loopback (local)
• MSMQ
• Beta
  • ActiveMQ
  • WCF
  • SQS
  • TIBCO (You must have the TIBCO.EMS.dll, TIBCO.EMS.ADMIN.dll assemblies)

Samples

Starbucks - This sample attempts to be a complete sample of a message based solution as well as a concrete example of Gregor Hophe's article "Starbucks doesn't use two phase commit.

HeavyLoad - This sample attempts to push the limits of the infrastructure, and can be run as a gauge on your hardware's capacity to perform.

OpenAllNight - This sample attempts to be a long term test of the infrastructure, and can be set to run for a set number of time. It works with the prebuilt services as well, to both quickly test and to put through their paces over time.

Audit

Mandelbrot 

Publish/Subscribe

WebRequestReply

WebServiceBridge

WinFormSample