Hands-On Azure for Developers

Creating an actor's client

To create a client, we will use the most traditional Console Application. Once more, click on File | New project and search for it or just right-click on the solution and click on Add | New project. You will have to add two more things before we write some code:

• Add a reference to our .Interfaces project as we have to know which methods we would like to call
• Install the Microsoft.ServiceFabric.Actors package

We will write a simple application that calls our actor, fetches the current count value, and updates it. The following shows my example code:

using System;using System.Threading;using System.Threading.Tasks;using Microsoft.ServiceFabric.Actors;using Microsoft.ServiceFabric.Actors.Client;using ReliableActor.Interfaces; ...