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Learning Microsoft Azure

Learning Microsoft Azure

By : Geoff Webber Cross
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Learning Microsoft Azure

Learning Microsoft Azure

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By: Geoff Webber Cross
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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.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure
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1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure
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An overview of cloud computing
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Microsoft Azure overview
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Selecting a Microsoft Azure solution
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Administration of Microsoft Azure systems
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Choosing a subscription
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Creating a Microsoft Azure account
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Adding a subscription
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Exploring the portal
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Examining Microsoft Azure Services
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Summary
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2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure
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2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure
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Designing scalable and resilient systems
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Systems architecture
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A case study of a small business system
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A case study of an enterprise system – Azure Bakery
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Designing platform environments
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Summary
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3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure
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3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure
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Preparing our development environment
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Checking for Visual Studio updates
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Creating a website
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Configuring a website in the portal
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Creating a Visual Studio Online project
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Setting up continuous deployment
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Setting up alerts
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Summary
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4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database
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4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database
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Creating a database using the Azure management portal
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Building a database using Entity Framework (EF) Code First Migrations
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Managing SQL Azure Servers and databases
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Backing up and restoring databases
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Summary
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5. Building Azure MVC Websites
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5. Building Azure MVC Websites
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Implementing OAuth authentication
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Completing the customer sales website
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Adding a custom domain name to a website
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Implementing an SSL certificate
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Adding Azure AD single sign-on to a website
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Implementing Azure AD group authorization
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Completing the admin sales website
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6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging
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6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging
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Enabling diagnostics
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Application logging
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Site diagnostics
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Kudu
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Remote debugging
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7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration
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7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration
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Introducing Azure Service Bus and topics
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Dead-letter queues
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Creating a Service Bus topic
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Connecting a website to the Service Bus topic
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The messaging simulator
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Exploring the topic workspace
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8. Building Worker Roles
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8. Building Worker Roles
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Introducing cloud services
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Exploring worker roles
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Running locally
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Publishing a worker role
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Building the production order processor
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Creating a scheduled work activity
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Completing the worker role
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Testing the production order processor
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Deleting idle cloud services
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9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration
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9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration
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Configuring diagnostics
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Remote debugging
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Debugging with IntelliTrace
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Remote desktop connection
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Detecting configuration changes in code
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Start-up tasks
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10. Web API and Client Integration
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10. Web API and Client Integration
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Introducing a Web API
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Introducing SignalR
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Building a Web API service
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Creating a SignalR hub
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Publishing a Web API
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Modifying the Web API AD manifest
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Adding a client application to AD
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Building a client application
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11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services
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11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services
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Introducing Azure mobile services
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Creating the customer Azure mobile service
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Exploring the mobile service sample project
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Creating a Windows Phone application
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Updating the order processor
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Updating the admin website
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Creating the supply mobile service
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Creating the supply Windows Store application
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12. Preparing an Azure System for Production
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12. Preparing an Azure System for Production
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Project configurations for multiple environments
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Building website deployment packages
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Building cloud service deployment packages
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Deploying web packages to Azure
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Deploying cloud packages to Azure
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Creating database scripts from Entity Framework Code First Migrations
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The go-live checklist
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Monitoring live services
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Azure daily service checks
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Azure periodic service activities
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Azure tool list
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Index

Questions

  1. What benefits do Azure mobile services offer over other type of offer services?
  2. What is special about the administrative authorization level?
  3. Why might a TableController cause us problems with an existing database schema and what options do we have to help us?
  4. What base class should scheduled jobs implement and how are they called?
  5. How can we relate an OAuth provider authenticated user from a mobile service to a user created by an MVC website?
  6. What does the Enable unauthenticated push notifications under the windows phone notifications settings (mpns) setting in the mobile service's PUSH tab do?
  7. Which object contains the user credentials after a successful login from a MobileServiceClient instance?
  8. In the DataServiceBase class, why is the MobileServiceClient variable marked static?
  9. In a Windows Phone app, which capability needs enabling and where is it configured?
  10. When we call the NotificationHub.RegisterNativeAsync method, what does the tagExpression parameter do?
  11. Which NuGet package...
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