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Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

By : David Burela
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Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

By: David Burela

Overview of this book

Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop. Microsoft Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Silverlight allows you to integrate with Windows Azure and create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on Windows Azure This book shows you how to create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on Windows Azure. Integrating Silverlight and Windows Azure can be difficult without guidance. This book will take you through all the steps to create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on the Windows Azure platform. The book starts by providing the steps required to set up the development environment, providing an overview of Azure. The book then dives deep into topics such as hosting Silverlight applications in Azure, using Azure Queues in Silverlight, storing data in Azure table storage from Silverlight, accessing Azure blob storage from Silverlight, relational data with SQL Azure and RIA, and manipulating data with RIA services amongst others.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Globalizing your applications


In Chapter 6, Storing Data in Azure Table Storage from Silverlight, it was shown that files could be pushed out through a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to be geographically closer to the end users. The computing resources can also be pushed out to be geographically closer to your global customers in Europe, Asia, and America.

Windows Azure has a product called Windows Azure Traffic Manager that can help you to distribute the computing power across a number of datacenters globally. Windows Azure Traffic Manager allows you to deploy your application onto the multiple datacenters around the world (Europe, Asia, and so on), and then create a single Domain Name Server (DNS) entry, for example,<suffix>.trafficmgr.com). When clients try to access the DNS entry, Windows Azure Traffic Manager will detect the deployment that is closest to the client in location, and redirect them to use it.

This is one way to easily push your application to be closer to your users...