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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

What Entity Framework is


Traditionally, when creating applications that interact with a database, developers would be required to write a lot of underlying data access code. This is the code that is written for every project that retrieves the data, populates the data objects, accepts the updated commands, and so on.

The Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework (Entity Framework for short) is an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) Framework that saves developers from writing a lot of tedious boilerplate data access code. Entity Framework allows you to create data classes that represent your database tables, that is, the Entity Data Model (EDM) , and provides a simple way to query against your data store by using LINQ queries (Language Integrated Queries). These queries will automatically return the populated data objects which can be manipulated and persisted back to the database with a save command.

Under the covers, Entity Framework takes your LINQ queries, processes them through the EDM, and translates...