Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook电子书

Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook

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Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook

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About the Author

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 for this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Controlling Access in the Windows Azure Platform

Introduction

Managing Windows Azure Storage Service access keys

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Connecting to the Windows Azure Storage Service

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using SetConfigurationSettingPublisher()

How to do it...

How it works...

Connecting to the storage emulator

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Managing access control for containers and blobs

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating a Shared Access Signature for a container or blob

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using a container-level access policy

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Authenticating against the Windows Azure Service Management REST API

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Authenticating with the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Service

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

2. Handling Blobs in Windows Azure

Introduction

Setting properties and metadata for a blob

How to do it...

How it works...

Using blob directories

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating and using a blob snapshot

How to do it...

How it works...

CloudDrive.Snapshot()

Creating and using the root container for blobs

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Uploading blocks to a block blob

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Uploading a VHD into a page blob

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Downloading a blob asynchronously

How to do it...

How it works...

Optimizing blob uploads and downloads

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using retry policies with blob operations

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Transient Fault Handling Framework

Copying a blob with the Windows Azure Storage Service REST API

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using the REST API with the Queue service and Table service

See also

Leasing a blob using the Protocol classes in the Windows Azure Storage Client Library

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using a blob lease as a singleton ticket

See also

Using the Windows Azure Content-Delivery Network (CDN)

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

3. Going NoSQL with Windows Azure Tables

Introduction

Creating a table

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a data model and context for an entity

How to do it...

How it works...

TableServiceEntity class

See also

Using entity group transactions

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Diagnosing problems when using the Table service

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Handling concurrency with the Table service

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Choosing a PartitionKey and RowKey for a table

How to do it...

How it works...

Using continuation tokens and server-side paging

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Performing asynchronous queries

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Performing queries in parallel

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Handling the WritingEntity and ReadingEntity events

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

4. Disconnecting with Windows Azure Queues

Introduction

Managing Windows Azure queues

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding messages to a queue

How to do it...

How it works...

Retrieving messages from a queue

How to do it...

How it works...

Storing large amounts of data for a message

How to do it...

How it works...

Implementing a backoff when polling a queue

How to do it...

How it works...

Identifying and handling poison messages

How to do it...

How it works...

5. Developing Hosted Services for Windows Azure

Introduction

Choosing the service model for a hosted service

How to do it...

How it works...

Choosing which Windows Azure storage type to use

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring the service model for a hosted service

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Handling upgrades and configuration changes

Storing Configuration in Azure storage

Hosting multiple websites in a web role

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Providing a custom domain name for a hosted service

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using the hosts file to map domains

Implementing HTTPS in a web role

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using makecert to create a test certificate

Sharing session state with the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Service

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using local storage in an instance

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using startup tasks in a Windows Azure Role

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Developing startup tasks

Managing upgrades and changes to a hosted service

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using PowerShell cmdlets to upgrade a hosted service

Changing the number of endpoints in a hosted service

Version issue when performing in-place upgrades

Limitations on in-place upgrades

Handling changes to the configuration and topology of a hosted service

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using an Azure Drive in a hosted service

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using the Azure Drive simulation in thedevelopment environment

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using a VM Role

How to do it...

How it works...

Differencing disks

See also

Using Windows Azure Connect

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus

Moving connection to another WindowsAzure subscription

Consuming data from the Windows Azure MarketPlace DataMarket

How to do it...

How it works...

Using Web Deploy with Windows Azure

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

6. Digging into Windows Azure Diagnostics

Introduction

Initializing the configuration of Windows Azure Diagnostics

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Configuring the Event Log data buffer

Configuring the performance counter data buffer

Using a configuration file with Windows Azure Diagnostics

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using the Windows Azure Diagnostics trace listener

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Performing an on-demand transfer

How to do it...

How it works...

Implementing custom logging

How to do it...

How it works...

Accessing data persisted to Windows Azure Storage

How to do it...

How it works...

Using the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell cmdlets to configure Windows Azure Diagnostics

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Azure Management cmdlets

Using IntelliTrace to diagnose problems with a hosted service

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

7. Managing Hosted Services with the Service Management API

Introduction

Creating a Windows Azure hosted service

Getting ready

How it works...

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Locations and affinity groups

Deploying an application into a hosted service

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Upgrading an application deployed to a hosted service

How to do it...

How it works...

Retrieving the properties of a hosted service

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Autoscaling with the Windows Azure Service Management REST API

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell cmdlets

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Azure Management cmdlets

8. Using SQL Azure

Introduction

Provisioning a SQL Azure Server

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a SQL Azure database

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Copying a database

Increasing the size of a database

Migrating a database to SQL Azure

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Measuring SQL Azure usage

How to do it...

How it works...

Connecting to SQL Azure with ADO.NET

How to do it...

How it works...

Handling connection failures to SQL Azure

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Scaling out SQL Azure into the Windows Azure Blob Service

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

9. Looking at the Windows Azure AppFabric

Introduction

Creating a namespace for the Windows Azure AppFabric

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using the Service Bus as a relay service

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using Service Bus events

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using a Service Bus message buffer

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using a configuration file to configure the Caching service

Session-state provider and output-cache provider

Index