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Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

By : David Burela
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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

Windows authentication


Earlier while discussing WIF, it was stated that it is difficult for Azure roles to communicate with the active directory, as the roles are not connected to the domain.

If it is a requirement that you use standard windows authentication within the application, then it may be possible to use Azure Connect. Azure Connect allows a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection between Windows Azure and your corporate environment. It will also allow you to connect the roles to your domain. There is not much guidance to support this scenario, but a good place to start researching is on the Azure Connect team blog at the following address:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows_azure_connect_team_blog/

However, it is highly recommended that you research using Azure ACS first, as the Azure Connect solution has limitations, such as it also requires the users to be within the corporate network or connected to the VPN.