How to create regions on App Fabric via Powershell

Question

I think the title is clear, I'm surfing the web about an hour but every single page talks about creating regions dynamically using .net. I'm sure we have a command to execute on powershell. do you know it?

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

There's no Powershell commandlet out of the box for creating/managing regions.

The solution - write one!

As Daniel Richnak says in the comments, Powershell is .NET under the covers, and this means you can write extra Powershell commandlets to fill in the gaps.

A commandlet is a regular class that inherits from System.Management.Automation.Cmdlet, and it's decorated with the System.Management.Automation.Cmdlet attribute as well. Making it work is then a matter of overriding the ProcessRecord method. Command-line parameters are implemented as properties on the class, decorated with the System.Management.Automation.Parameter attribute. So a commandlet for creating regions would look something like:

using System.Management.Automation;
using Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching;

[Cmdlet(VerbsCommon.New, "CacheRegion")]
public class NewCacheRegion : Cmdlet
{
    [Parameter(Mandatory = true, Position = 1)]
    public string Cache { get; set; }
    [Parameter(Mandatory = true, Position = 2)]
    public string Region { get; set; }

    protected override void ProcessRecord()
    {
        base.ProcessRecord();

        DataCacheFactory factory = new DataCacheFactory();
        DataCache cache = factory.GetCache(Cache);

        try
        {
            cache.CreateRegion(Region);
        }
        catch (DataCacheException ex)
        {
            if (ex.ErrorCode == DataCacheErrorCode.RegionAlreadyExists)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(string.Format("There is already a region named {0} in the cache {1}.", Region, Cache));
            }
        }
    }
}