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Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

By : David Burela
Book Image

Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

By: David Burela

Overview of this book

Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop. Microsoft Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Silverlight allows you to integrate with Windows Azure and create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on Windows Azure This book shows you how to create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on Windows Azure. Integrating Silverlight and Windows Azure can be difficult without guidance. This book will take you through all the steps to create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on the Windows Azure platform. The book starts by providing the steps required to set up the development environment, providing an overview of Azure. The book then dives deep into topics such as hosting Silverlight applications in Azure, using Azure Queues in Silverlight, storing data in Azure table storage from Silverlight, accessing Azure blob storage from Silverlight, relational data with SQL Azure and RIA, and manipulating data with RIA services amongst others.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

ASP.NET providers


If Azure ACS does not cover your needs, then the traditional ASP.NET methods are still available for use. ASP.NET membership providers have offered developers an easy way to integrate the user stores into an application. Other capabilities such as session state, roles, and so on are all core to the ASP.NET provider model.

When a user clicks on the Login button in a silverlight RIA Services application, it is actually using the built-in ASP.NET membership providers under the covers. This allows Silverlight the same flexibility that ASP.NET has in selecting a provider, based on the desired backing stores.

The providers grant features to an application such as membership (username and passwords), session state, roles, and so on.

Note

Session state

While session state can be stored in SQL Azure or Azure Storage, be aware that it can also be stored in AppFabric caching. Depending on the load your application experiences, you may find a benefit in using one over the other. Refer...