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Learning Microsoft Azure

By : Geoff Webber Cross

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Learning Microsoft Azure

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By: Geoff Webber Cross

Overview of this book

If you are a developer interested in building systems for Microsoft Azure, with an understanding of efficient cloud-based application development, then this is the book for you.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure

1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure

An overview of cloud computing

Microsoft Azure overview

Selecting a Microsoft Azure solution

Administration of Microsoft Azure systems

Choosing a subscription

Creating a Microsoft Azure account

Adding a subscription

Exploring the portal

Examining Microsoft Azure Services

Summary

Questions

Answers

2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure

2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure

Designing scalable and resilient systems

Systems architecture

A case study of a small business system

A case study of an enterprise system – Azure Bakery

Designing platform environments

Summary

Questions

Answers

3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure

3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure

Preparing our development environment

Checking for Visual Studio updates

Creating a website

Configuring a website in the portal

Creating a Visual Studio Online project

Setting up continuous deployment

Setting up alerts

Summary

Questions

Answers

4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database

4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database

Creating a database using the Azure management portal

Building a database using Entity Framework (EF) Code First Migrations

Managing SQL Azure Servers and databases

Backing up and restoring databases

Summary

Questions

Answers

5. Building Azure MVC Websites

5. Building Azure MVC Websites

Implementing OAuth authentication

Completing the customer sales website

Adding a custom domain name to a website

Implementing an SSL certificate

Adding Azure AD single sign-on to a website

Implementing Azure AD group authorization

Completing the admin sales website

Summary

Questions

Answers

6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging

6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging

Enabling diagnostics

Application logging

Site diagnostics

Kudu

Remote debugging

Summary

Questions

Answers

7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration

7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration

Introducing Azure Service Bus and topics

Dead-letter queues

Creating a Service Bus topic

Connecting a website to the Service Bus topic

The messaging simulator

Exploring the topic workspace

Summary

Questions

Answers

8. Building Worker Roles

8. Building Worker Roles

Introducing cloud services

Exploring worker roles

Running locally

Publishing a worker role

Building the production order processor

Creating a scheduled work activity

Completing the worker role

Testing the production order processor

Deleting idle cloud services

Summary

Questions

Answers

9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration

9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration

Configuring diagnostics

Remote debugging

Debugging with IntelliTrace

Remote desktop connection

Detecting configuration changes in code

Start-up tasks

Summary

Questions

Answers

10. Web API and Client Integration

10. Web API and Client Integration

Introducing a Web API

Introducing SignalR

Building a Web API service

Creating a SignalR hub

Publishing a Web API

Modifying the Web API AD manifest

Adding a client application to AD

Building a client application

Summary

Questions

Answers

11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services

11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services

Introducing Azure mobile services

Creating the customer Azure mobile service

Exploring the mobile service sample project

Creating a Windows Phone application

Updating the order processor

Updating the admin website

Creating the supply mobile service

Creating the supply Windows Store application

Summary

Questions

Answers

12. Preparing an Azure System for Production

12. Preparing an Azure System for Production

Project configurations for multiple environments

Building website deployment packages

Building cloud service deployment packages

Deploying web packages to Azure

Deploying cloud packages to Azure

Creating database scripts from Entity Framework Code First Migrations

The go-live checklist

Monitoring live services

Azure daily service checks

Azure periodic service activities

Azure tool list

Summary

Questions

Answers

Index

Index

Creating a SignalR hub

We'll implement a SignalR hub to allow clients to update order and batch statuses as they are changed by a user, and we'll receive updates from other clients in the system as they are updated by other users. Create the hub in the following procedure:

Enter the following command into the NuGet Package Manager Console to install the Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR package:
```
Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR
```
Enter the following command into the NuGet Package Manager Console to install the Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.ServiceBus package:
```
Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.ServiceBus
```
Finally, enter the following command to install the windowsazure.servicebus package (do this at last because the Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR command installs its own version, which might not be compatible with partitioned brokered messages):
```
install-package windowsazure.servicebus
```
Modify the Microsoft.ServiceBus.ConnectionString app setting, which was added by the Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.ServiceBus...

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