Summary
In this chapter, we created a new Silverlight application that was hosted with an Azure project. We then created a WCF service that was also hosted within the Azure project, and consumed it from the Silverlight application. The WCF service was then scaled to 4 instances to demonstrate how WCF requests can be load balanced across multiple instances. A technique was also shown to allow a WCF service to be consumed through a relative path, allowing the website to be hosted anywhere without the service address needing to be changed for each deployment.
In the next chapter, we begin the introduction of the Azure Storage by looking at the Azure Queue Service.