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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

Using Silverlight with RIA Services, SQL Azure, and Entity Framework


This exercise will demonstrate how simple it can be to build enterprise Silverlight applications that are built on top of RIA Services. The data will come from an SQL Azure database that was created in the previous chapter. Different features of RIA Services will be demonstrated in this exercise, such as the ease of sending data to the Silverlight client, filtering, paging, and data validation.

Configuring SQL Azure

This chapter assumes that your SQL Azure instance has been set up already from the previous chapter. The SQL Azure server, database, and firewall rules should all be configured already. It also assumes that PacktDemoDB has been created, and contains two tables: Division and Employee.

If this has not been done, please follow the instructions in Chapter 7, Relational Data with SQL Azure and Entity Framework. Follow the steps to configure the SQL Azure Server, create the Entity Framework model, generate the SQL...