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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

Using the SQL Azure provider


The original ASP.NET SQL providers were built only to work with standard SQL Server and SQL Server Express. Some of the required capabilities of SQL Server that the ASP.NET SQL providers rely on are not available in SQL Azure. Some of the features that will not work are session state and the creation of the required tables through the ASPNET_REGSQL tool. There are some workarounds that can be found online, such as the updated SQL scripts for table creation at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2006191. However, there is a better way to get this working.

Microsoft released a new provider called the ASP.NET Universal Providers, which resolves these issues. The universal providers will work with SQL compact, SQL Server Express, SQL Server, and SQL Azure. This makes development easier as the same provider will work against a local SQL Server on the machine of a developer, and can then work with the SQL Azure database with just a connection string modification. The...