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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 shared access signatures to upload from Silverlight


This section is a little unique as Silverlight will be accessing the Azure storage account directly rather than allowing the web role to handle the interactions for us. This will require the use of shared access signatures.

Shared access signatures can temporarily grant permissions to work with an Azure container without disclosing the shared access key to end users.

In this section, we will generate and use shared access signatures to enable the Silverlight application to make calls to the Azure Storage REST API. With access to the REST API, the Silverlight client will be able to upload images to the container and also list the contents of the same. These two techniques will be used together to create a Silverlight application that allows the user to upload the images, and then have the images displayed back to them.

Note

This exercise shows how to use the shared access signature to upload the files, but the same technique can be...