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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 9. Exposing OData to Silverlight Applications

Enterprises typically have multiple silos of data held in systems across their entire network. Work has been done to get the service interoperability through SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). However, until recently, there has not been much work put into the data interoperability across applications. OData is an open standard that can be used to share data in an interoperable way.

This chapter will explore what OData is, and how it can be consumed and exposed in your applications. The following topics will be covered:

  • OData

  • Consuming OData services

  • Sharing data by using OData

OData

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a web protocol that enables the querying and updating of the data in a framework-agnostic manner. OData has been built by combining a number of existing web technologies together (HTTP, AtomPub and JSON), which allows any technology framework to consume or to produce OData services. As it is built on top of the existing web...