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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

Summary


In this chapter, Azure Blob storage was explored in depth, including the underlying mechanisms of how files are stored within the Blob service. We then created an Azure web role that generated files and stored each one of them in the Blob storage. A Silverlight application was then created to retrieve each of the generated text files from the Blob storage, and display them on the screen.

We then moved on to creating a Silverlight application that could access the REST API directly, enabling the Silverlight application to upload the images, and then list the images that are held in a Blob container.

The Silverlight restrictions around the cross-domain policies were explained. The concept of a client access policy XML file was introduced as a way to grant permissions to Silverlight applications to access services on different domains.

Finally, Content Delivery Network (CDN) was explained, as well as its use in improving the end-user performance of your applications.

The next chapter will...