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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 11. Application Authentication

This chapter will look at the different ways an application can be secured to allow access only to the authorized users.

There are two main ways in which an application can be secured: Windows Identity Foundation and ASP.NET providers.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Windows Identity Foundation and Azure Access Control service

  • ASP.NET providers

  • Using the SQL Azure provider

  • Using the Azure Storage provider

  • Windows authentication

Windows Identity Foundation and Azure Access Control Service

Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) is a new framework from Microsoft that assists in creating applications that use Federated Authentication. It is a new technique that is gaining popularity for creating the enterprise applications that are hosted outside the corporate firewall. While hosting an application in the cloud, it is difficult to have the user log on with their active directory credentials as the Azure roles are not joined to the domain.

By using Windows...