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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

Chapter 3. Create Your Solution

"In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is."

—Jeff Atwood, writer of the blog, Coding Horror

This chapter focuses on the structure of a typical Windows Azure solution in Visual Studio, and specifically on the proposed solution structure of our fictional company, Geotopia. It not only helps you to organize your own solution structure inside the IDE, but also demonstrates how to use the online version of Team Foundation Server in conjunction with the development environment.

Since Geotopia also relies on Bing Maps, this chapter also describes how to use Bing Maps in combination with Windows Azure.

The last part of the chapter demonstrates the second prototype of Geotopia. At the end of this chapter, we will have a fully operational solution that can be deployed on Windows Azure, has Silverlight parts in it, and has...