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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 4. Using Azure Queues with Silverlight

The Windows Azure storage service is focused on the durable storage of persistent data and comprises three distinct services: blob, queue, and table.

We will begin this chapter by covering the fundamentals of Windows Azure storage, and then diving into the specifics of Azure Queue services.

Most introductions to Azure storage services begin with Azure Blob storage and continue from there. However, out of the three services (blob, queue, and table), Blob storage contains the most new concepts that need to be introduced simultaneously. There are enough fundamentals being introduced while using the Azure storage service with Silverlight for the additional Blob storage specific functions to complicate things. For this reason, we will first cover the Azure Queue service which has a simpler interaction model. Later chapters will then focus on Blob storage and finally Table storage.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Fundamentals of...