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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

ASP.NET session caching


There may be scenarios where it is desirable to use the ASP.NET session state to store user data. But, by default, this data would be stored on each individual role instance, which can quickly cause inconsistencies in the data.

AppFabric caching can be utilized to resolve this issue by storing the session data in the shared AppFabric cache where each instance can access it. A project can be enabled to use AppFabric to store session state through a single configuration entry on the web.config file. Once the AppFabric<dataCacheClients> configuration section has been inserted into the web.config, then one additional entry needs to be added to<configSections>. Following is the code snippet that is provided by the management portal:

<configSections>
<!-- Append below entry to configSections. Do not overwrite the full section. -->
<section name="dataCacheClients" type="Microsoft.ApplicationServer. Caching.DataCacheClientsSection, Microsoft.ApplicationServer...