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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

Consuming OData services


There are lists of applications and frameworks that can consume OData services on the OData website. An example of these existing applications can be found at the following URL:

http://odata.org/consumers

Developers who wish to download SDKs that will allow them to consume OData natively from within their applications can find the links on the following page:

http://odata.org/developers/odata-sdk

The following is a short list of platforms and applications that support the consumption of OData services:

  • Web browsers

  • Ajax or JavaScript or jQuery

  • Silverlight

  • Windows Phone 7

  • iPhone

  • Android

  • Excel

  • LINQPad

  • PHP

  • Java

  • Any platform that allows the creation of an HTTP request

Using Internet Explorer

The easiest way to get started with OData is to query an existing service manually with a web browser. There are a number of existing OData services listed at http://odata.org/producers that can be browsed. The OData service for http://Netflix.com will be used in this exercise to demonstrate...