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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

Caching raw data in AppFabric


This exercise will demonstrate a method to quickly integrate Azure AppFabric caching with the cached raw data from an SQL Azure Database.

A Silverlight or RIA Services application will be built that interacts with the SQL Azure Database. To improve the performance of the application, the slowly changing data will be cached in an AppFabric cache. The exercise will use the same workplace that SQL Azure Database has used in the preceding exercises.

Provisioning the AppFabric cache service

In order to use Azure AppFabric Caching in your application, an AppFabric Caching Service first needs to be provisioned. Once the AppFabric cache has been created, the Azure Management Portal provides many configuration settings that need to be added to your application in order to interact with it, as follows:

  1. 1. Start by navigating to http://Azure.com and logging in to the Azure Management Portal.

  2. 2. From the sidebar menu, select Service Bus, Access Control & Caching. Then...