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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

Developing applications locally


Microsoft has made it easy for the developers to develop Windows Azure applications on their local machines. When the Windows Azure SDK and tools are installed, a basic simulation of the Azure compute and storage services is included. This gives the developers the ability to run and debug Azure applications locally.

The compute service is simulated by spawning multiple instances of the role, rather than provisioning multiple virtual machines. The system is still limited by the resources of the development machine. So, creating 20 instances of a role would result in a degraded performance.

Storage services are simulated by creating REST endpoints on the local development machine. While developing applications, the endpoint URL just needs to be set to the local endpoint. These endpoints are only accessible from the local machine and are not exposed on the network.

SQL Azure is not directly simulated, but can be done by connecting it to a local Microsoft SQL Server...