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Windows Azure programming patterns for Start-ups

By : Riccardo Becker
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Windows Azure programming patterns for Start-ups

By: Riccardo Becker

Overview of this book

Leverage different Windows Azure components together with your existing Microsoft .NET skills to fully take advantage of the power of Windows Azure. Use this book to start small and end big by creating and using storage, cloud services, sql databases, networking, caching and other innovative technology to realize your first top-class Windows Azure service! "Windows Azure for Start-ups" is an incremental guide that will take you from the essentials of the Windows Azure platform up to the realization of your own cloud services running on the platform. You will learn how to apply different technologies of the Windows Azure platform with the help of examples all focusing on one single fictitious start-up scenario. This book is centred around a fictitious company called Geotopia that wants to build a brand new social network by using the Windows Azure platform. It will take the reader from the theory and rationale behind Windows Azure right to building services and coding C#. The books starts by outlining the concepts of Windows Azure. It then demonstrates how to set up a development environment and how to build your application by using different storage mechanisms, applying different features from the Windows Azure platform and ending with the newest features explained from the latest release. Windows Azure for Startups will help you take full advantage of the Windows Azure platform and bring your new service online as quickly as possible.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Windows Azure Programming Patterns for Start-ups
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you saw how the Security Development Lifecycle is applicable for Windows Azure projects. It describes what activities need to be deployed and what additional efforts need to be put in your project to ensure you think of all possible security and privacy breaches. It describes typical activities in all the phases of projects—requirements, design, implementation, verification, and release. Also privacy regulations and industry standards that Microsoft complies with were described along with some measures that were taken to mitigate risks in general. Finally, it also showed some typical security features around SQL Database.

Besides the SDL story, the chapter also showed you some general best practices on security topics in the Windows Azure world. This chapter does not tell you anything new but merely points out some slight but important differences from traditional development.

The next chapter provides an overview of the new features released on June 7, 2012. Microsoft...