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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

Using the Azure Storage provider


The majority of applications, SQL Azure will be the preferred option for storing ASP.NET membership, session state, and so on. If the architecture of your application does not require SQL Azure, then falling back to using Azure Storage is a possibility.

Microsoft has released a code sample that contains the code required to enable the ASP.NET Azure Storage provider. This provider will store the user details (e-mail, username, password hash, and so on) in Table storage and store the customizable profile details (friendly name) in Blob storage in a text file per user.

Enabling the Azure Storage provider requires a few more manual steps than the universal provider did in the preceding exercise. This is because the NuGet package automatically configures many parts of the web.config file for us:

  1. 1. Go to the Microsoft code sample site for Windows Azure and download the Windows Azure ASP.NET Providers Sample. The direct link to the sample is http://code.msdn.microsoft...