Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition

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Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition

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Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition

Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition

Credits

About the Authors

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

Free Chapter

Developing Cloud Services for Microsoft Azure

Developing Cloud Services for Microsoft Azure

Setting up solutions and projects to work with Cloud Services

Debugging a Cloud Service locally with either Emulator or Emulator Express

Publishing a Cloud Service with options from Visual Studio

Debugging a Cloud Service remotely with Visual Studio

Configuring the service model for a Cloud Service

Providing a custom domain name for a Cloud Service

Implementing HTTPS in a web role

Using local storage in an instance

Hosting multiple websites in a web role

Using startup tasks in a Microsoft Azure role

Handling changes to the configuration and topology of a Cloud Service

Managing upgrades and changes to a Cloud Service

Configuring diagnostics in Cloud Services

Deploying Quickly with Azure Websites

Deploying Quickly with Azure Websites

Deploying a Website

Administering and monitoring a Website

Source versioning and continuous integration with Git and TFS

Logging abstraction from .NET and PHP

Deploying Java with Azure Websites

Getting Storage with Blobs in Azure

Getting Storage with Blobs in Azure

Managing the Azure Storage service

Connecting to the Azure Storage service

Connecting to the storage emulator

Managing access control for containers and blobs

Creating a shared access signature for a container or blob

Using a container-level access policy

Setting properties and metadata for a blob

Using blob directories

Creating and using a blob snapshot

Creating and using the root container for blobs

Uploading blocks to a block blob

Uploading a VHD into a page blob

Downloading a blob asynchronously

Using retry policies with blob operations

Leasing a blob and implementing distributed locks

Using the Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Going Relational with the Azure SQL Database

Going Relational with the Azure SQL Database

Creating a SQL Database server and database

Managing SQL Database logins and firewall rules

Developing a SQL Database with Visual Studio

Connecting to a SQL Database with ADO.NET

Connecting to a SQL Database with Entity Framework

Connecting to a SQL Database from PHP and Java

Migrating a database to a SQL Database

Leveraging backup solutions with SQL Database

Monitoring SQL Database with the dynamic management views

Handling connection failures to a SQL Database

Going NoSQL with Azure Tables

Going NoSQL with Azure Tables

Creating a table

Inserting, updating, deleting, and querying data against the Table service

Using entity group transactions

Using continuation tokens and server-side paging

Going inside continuation tokens and segmented queries

Handling entity serialization events

Facilitating NoSQL with client-side projection

Messaging and Queues with the Storage and Service Bus

Messaging and Queues with the Storage and Service Bus

Managing Azure Storage queues

Managing Azure Service Bus queues

Adding messages to a Storage queue

Adding messages to a Service Bus queue

Receiving messages with Storage queues

Receiving messages with Service Bus queues

Implementing publish/subscribe with Service Bus topics

Implementing relayed messaging with the Service Bus

Communication between .NET and Java with the Service Bus and AMQP

Managing Azure Resources with the Azure Management Libraries

Managing Azure Resources with the Azure Management Libraries

Setting up the management client

Managing the Storage service

Deploying Cloud Services

Inspecting and managing Cloud Services

Managing and using the Azure Scheduler

Monitoring and automating infrastructure operations

Automating SQL Database operations

Using Azure PowerShell

Going In-memory with Azure Cache

Going In-memory with Azure Cache

Building a simple cache for applications

Using local cache and notifications

Diagnosing cache and optimizing performance

Using advanced caching features

Using Redis Cache in Azure

Index

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Migrating a database to a SQL Database

The SQL Database supports many but not all the features of Microsoft SQL Server. For example, all SQL Database tables must have a clustered index, as the SQL Database does not support heap tables. Consequently, although it is not difficult to migrate a Microsoft SQL Server database to the SQL Database, some attention must be paid when doing so. This involves identifying the features that are not supported and modifying the Transact SQL script so that it can run correctly in Azure SQL Database.

The SQL Database Migration Wizard (http://sqlazuremw.codeplex.com/) is a CodePlex project that can be used to analyze a Microsoft SQL Server database to identify the features not supported in the SQL Database. It generates a Transact SQL script that can recreate the database and modifies to a valid form any statement not supported by Azure. The SQL Database Migration Wizard can then migrate the database by applying the script to a SQL Database and using bcp, a...