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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

Sharing data by using OData


Consuming OData services is only half the story. However, having the ability to expose your data as an OData service is another topic that needs to be covered.

Microsoft is implementing OData services across their products as a standard way of exposing and sharing data. The following is a short list of Microsoft products that expose their data with OData, with more Microsoft products expected to follow in the near future:

  • SharePoint

  • Azure Tables

  • SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services)

  • MS CRM (Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management)

  • TFS (Team Foundation Server) with OData plugin

There are numerous online websites that expose their data, allowing anyone to query them. As an example, it is possible to get a list of all photos that Microsoft has uploaded to the Twitpic at the following address:

http://odata.twitpic.com/Users('Microsoft')/Images

The following is a short list of sites that support the protocol: