Transient Fault Handling

March 2014

Note

Important: Recent versions of SDKs for both Azure Storage and Azure Service Bus natively support retries. It is recommended to use these instead of the Transient Fault Handling Application Block

Summary

Transient Fault Handling provides the retry mechanisms to make your application more resilient to transient faults in both synchronous and asynchronous scenarios.

Download code	Available through NuGet
Hands-on labs	Hands-on Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 6
Transient Fault Handling Reference	Transient Fault Handling Application Block (Enterprise Library 6) (Retired) Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure (Retired) Transient Fault Handling (version 5)
Community site	http://topaz.codeplex.com/

Relevant articles

• Perseverance, Secret of All Triumphs: Using the Transient Fault Handling Application Block (Retired)
• Cloud Service Fundamentals Data Access Layer – Transient Fault Handling
• Dealing with Microsoft Azure Storage transient faults

Related titles

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• Microsoft Enterprise Library Home Page