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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

Summary


This chapter explained the fundamentals of the Windows Azure storage service. Concepts such as shared keys, accessing the service through the REST API, using the storage client library, and the importance of the collocation of services were all covered to give a good grounding knowledge of the service.

The Queue service was introduced as a way to allow asynchronous communication between the components of your application, and to allow your work to be buffered. The exercise in this chapter demonstrated how to submit your work from a Silverlight application into a queue, so that the work is buffered and queued up, allowing the worker roles to process messages asynchronously as they got to them.

In the next chapter, we will look at how the Azure Blob storage can be used to save files and documents in a durable persistent store, and how sending files to the users can be made faster by using Content Distribution Networks (CDN).