Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure enterprise integration / David Burela.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burela, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

SQL server.

Windows Azure.

Cloud computing.

Enterprise application integration (Computer systems).

Database management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a step-by-step tutorial that shows you how to obtain the necessary toolset to create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on Azure. The book also covers techniques, practical tips, hints, and tricks for Silverlight interactions with Azure. Each topic is written in an easy-to-read style, with a detailed explanation given and then practical step-by-step exercises with a strong emphasis on real-world relevance. If you are an application developer who wants to build and run Silverlight Enterprise applications using Azure storage, WCF Services, and ASP providers, then this book

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgement; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started; Installation; Visual Studio 2010; Web platform installer; Useful tools; Official Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio; Azure Storage Explorer; Expression Blend; Silverlight Toolkit; Telerik Silverlight controls; Silverlight Spy; LINQPad; Creating a Windows Azure account; Deploying to Windows Azure from Visual Studio 2010; Creating the hosting service; Creating the storage account; Deploying applications onto Azure servers

Creating certificates to authenticate deployment Summary; Chapter 2: Introduction to Windows Azure; Windows Azure; Main components of Windows Azure; Windows Azure compute services; Role types; Example usage of roles; Compute fabric; Things to be aware of when working with role instances; Compute instance sizes; Windows Azure storage services; SQL Azure; Windows Azure AppFabric; Developing applications locally; Summary; Chapter 3: Hosting Silverlight Applications in Azure; Combining Silverlight and Windows Azure projects; Creating a Silverlight or Azure solution

Running an Azure application on the Azure compute emulator Consuming an Azure-hosted WCF service within a Silverlight application; Configuring the number of web roles; Summary; Chapter 4: Using Azure Queues with Silverlight; Fundamentals of Azure storage services; Accessing storage services through REST APIs; Accessing storage services with storage client library; Using shared keys to access storage services; Collocation of storage and computer services; Local storage emulator; Azure Storage Queue service; Queue service operations; Using queues or application scalability; Message durability

Queuing work from a Silverlight application Handling poison messages; Summary; Chapter 5: Accessing Azure Blob Storage from Silverlight; Azure Blob storage; Available commands; Behind the scenes; Creating, listing, and displaying files with Silverlight; Generating files with a web role and displaying in Silverlight; Retrieving and displaying the files from Azure Blob storage in Silverlight; Using the shared access signatures to upload from Silverlight; The Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN); Benefits of using CDN with Silverlight; Enabling the CDN on an Azure storage account

Location of CDN edge nodesSummary; Chapter 6: Storing Data in Azure Table Storage from Silverlight; Azure Table storage; Accessing Azure Table storage; Querying Azure Table storage; Under the covers; Partitions; Flexible schema; Concurrency and transactions; Azure Table storage versus SQL Azure; Scalability; So which one should you choose; Using Azure Table storage from Silverlight; Interacting with Table storage and creating a WCF service; Creating the Silverlight application; Summary; Chapter 7: Relational Data with SQL Azure and Entity Framework; SQL Azure; SQL Azure versus Table storage

Underlying architecture

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613523204

9781280118913

1280118911

9781849683135

1849683131

OCLC:

786268990