Azure Service Bus QueueClient RetryPolicy vs Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.WindowsAzure.TransientFaultHandling.RetryPolicy

Question

I would like to know the current best practice for writing a resilient Producer / Consumer using the Service Bus QueueClient.

I'm a little confused over the purpose of the Azure Service Bus QueueClient.RetryPolicy http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.servicebus.retrypolicy.aspx

and when i should use the Topaz Retry Policy instead http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.practices.transientfaulthandling.retrypolicy.aspx

Does the QueueClient have built in Transient Fault handling and not require the use the Topaz library?

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

When you read closer exactly the link you provided for TOPAZ you will see:

Retired Content This content and the technology described is outdated and is no longer being maintained. For more information, see Transient Fault Handling.

then there a link to the section of Microsoft Enterprise Library section for Transient Fault Handling, which clears it further:

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

So, use the Service Bus SDK built in retry policy.