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Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

By : David Burela
Book Image

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

Azure AppFabric caching


Azure AppFabric caching is a distributed in-memory caching service, which is provided as a provisionable service that can be consumed. What it means by "in-memory" is that the servers that are hosting the AppFabric caching service hold all the cached values in the memory. This allows the caching servers to return the cached results rapidly, rather than retrieving the values from the disk. The distributed part of the name refers to the fact that the cache is distributed over a number of AppFabric servers to ensure the durability of the data.

A typical scenario for using the caching service is to cache data that is retrieved from an SQL Azure Database, or an Azure Table storage. This can reduce the load on the data stores, and also improve the response time by quickly retrieving the cached values. The following diagram shows an example of this scenario. Each of the Azure web or worker role instances retrieve their values from the AppFabric cache. As explained in the...