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Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

By : David Burela
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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

Summary


The Windows Azure platform can help enterprises to be more agile by enabling them to quickly deploy new applications or scale as the demand changes. There are many components offered by the Windows Azure and it is important to be aware of the role that each plays.

Splitting a large complex application into discrete roles can help to lower the complexity of an application and allow each piece to be scaled independently. However, also remember that scaling a single role over multiple instances brings new development challenges while trying to share the state between machines.

In the next chapter, we will explore how Windows Azure and Silverlight can be used together within the same application. We will also see techniques for scaling WCF services over multiple Azure instances.