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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

Chapter 2. Introduction to Windows Azure

The Windows Azure platform comprises a number of services that can be used independently or combined together to create cloud-enabled applications. In order to create scalable solutions, it is important to understand how all the pieces of a platform relate to each other.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Windows Azure

  • Developing applications locally

  • Resourcing issues within the enterprises

Windows Azure

Windows Azure is a set of services that enables the enterprises to create scalable, fault-tolerant web applications that are hosted within the owned datacenters and operated by Microsoft. Microsoft abstracts the infrastructure for hosting the applications, so that you can focus on your application and features. The Windows Azure platform provides on-demand compute, storage, and middleware services that can be used to host, scale, and manage web applications.

The web applications hosted by Azure can be public-facing websites, secured...