Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration电子书

Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

Table of Contents

Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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

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

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

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 for application scalability

Message durability

Queuing work from a Silverlight application

Handling poison messages

Summary

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 nodes

Summary

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

7. Relational Data with SQL Azure and Entity Framework

SQL Azure

SQL Azure versus Table storage

Underlying architecture

Sharding data with SQL Azure Federations

What Entity Framework is

Development options

Using SQL Azure in Silverlight

Configuring SQL Azure

Creating the Entity Framework model

Creating the WCF service

Creating the Silverlight application

Summary

8. RIA Services and SQL Azure

RIA Services

Architecture

Querying a domain service

Tracking changes

RIA Services toolkit

Using Silverlight with RIA Services, SQL Azure, and Entity Framework

Configuring SQL Azure

Entities

Domain service

Creating the first Silverlight screen

Using a Domain Data Source to access data

Paging, sorting, filtering, and child objects

Under the covers of RIA services

Summary

9. Exposing OData to Silverlight Applications

OData

Value for the enterprise

Accessing data

URI construction

OData versus RIA Services

Consuming OData services

Using Internet Explorer

OData Explorer

Using Silverlight

Consuming OData on other platforms

Sharing data by using OData

Creating your own OData services

RIA Services domain service with Entity Framework and SQL Azure

WCF Data Services with SQL Azure

Summary

10. Web-scale Considerations

Asynchronous processing and componentization

Naive website example

Asynchronous website example

CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation)

Additional resources

Implementing CQRS with Azure

Globalizing your applications

Summary

11. Application Authentication

Windows Identity Foundation and Azure Access Control Service

ASP.NET providers

Using the SQL Azure provider

Using the Azure Storage provider

Windows authentication

Summary

12. Using Azure AppFabric Caching to Improve Performance

Data caching

Caching lifecycle

Caching issues

Azure AppFabric caching

Caching raw data in AppFabric

Provisioning the AppFabric cache service

Creating the RIA Services application

Implementing caching

ASP.NET session caching

Summary

Index