Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration (Paperback)

A step-by-step book and eBook guide to creating and running scalable Silverlight 4 Enterprise Applications on the Windows Azure platform

• This book and e-book details how enterprise Silverlight applications can be written to take advantage of the key features of Windows Azure to create scalable applications
• Provides an overview of the Windows Azure platform and how the different technologies can be integrated within your enterprise application
• Examines ways that distributed asynchronous systems can be created to allow scalable processing
• Learn from a distinguished author with tips, tricks, and hands on experience to create scalable enterprise Silverlight applications that run on the Windows Azure platform

In Detail

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.

What you will learn from this book

• Understand federated authentication and how it can be used with your enterprise's on premise Active Directory, or integrated to allow logins through Google, Yahoo, LiveId, or Facebook
• Learn the components that make up the Azure platform and know which components to use in each of your applications
• Understand how to partition your relational database into shards to improve scalability and performance
• Discover how to use frameworks such as WCF RIA Services to speed up the development of your line of business applications
• Learn how to configure your development environment quickly by using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer
• Deploy your enterprise applications onto Windows Azure servers
• Use AppFabric caching to improve the performance of your applications
• Understand what Azure Storage is, how it compares to SQL Azure, and when to choose one over the other
• Expose your data via OData to allow Silverlight, javascript, and other web enabled technologies to access and query your data

Approach

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.

Who this book is written for

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 is for you. You should have a working knowledge of Silverlight and Expression Blend. However, knowledge of Azure is not required since the book covers how to integrate the two technologies in detail.

這本書和電子書提供了一個逐步指南，教你如何在Windows Azure平台上創建和運行可擴展的Silverlight 4企業應用程序。

這本書和電子書詳細介紹了如何編寫企業Silverlight應用程序，以利用Windows Azure的關鍵功能來創建可擴展的應用程序。

它概述了Windows Azure平台以及如何在企業應用程序中集成不同的技術。

它探討了創建分佈式異步系統的方法，以實現可擴展的處理。

從一位傑出的作者那裡學習，他將提供創建在Windows Azure平台上運行的可擴展企業Silverlight應用程序的技巧、訣竅和實踐經驗。

詳細內容：

Microsoft Silverlight是一個強大的開發平台，用於創建豐富的媒體應用程序和線上業務應用程序，可用於Web和桌面。

Microsoft Windows Azure是一個雲服務操作系統，用於開發、服務托管和服務管理Windows Azure平台。

Silverlight允許你與Windows Azure集成，並在Windows Azure上創建和運行Silverlight企業應用程序。

本書將向你展示如何在Windows Azure上創建和運行Silverlight企業應用程序。

在沒有指導的情況下，集成Silverlight和Windows Azure可能會很困難。本書將帶領你完成在Windows Azure平台上創建和運行Silverlight企業應用程序的所有步驟。本書首先介紹了設置開發環境所需的步驟，並概述了Azure。然後，本書深入探討了在Azure中托管Silverlight應用程序、在Silverlight中使用Azure隊列、從Silverlight將數據存儲在Azure表存儲中、從Silverlight訪問Azure Blob存儲、使用SQL Azure和RIA進行關聯數據以及使用RIA服務操作數據等主題。

從本書中你將學到：

- 了解聯合身份驗證以及如何與企業的本地Active Directory集成，或者通過Google、Yahoo、LiveId或Facebook進行登錄
- 了解構成Azure平台的組件，並知道在每個應用程序中使用哪些組件
- 了解如何將關聯數據庫分區為分片，以提高可擴展性和性能
- 發現如何使用WCF RIA服務等框架加快線上業務應用程序的開發速度
- 通過使用Microsoft Web Platform Installer快速配置開發環境
- 將企業應用程序部署到Windows Azure服務器
- 使用AppFabric緩存來提高應用程序的性能
- 了解Azure存儲是什麼，它與SQL Azure相比如何，以及在何時選擇其中之一
- 通過OData公開你的數據，以允許Silverlight、JavaScript和其他Web技術訪問和查詢你的數據

這本書是一本逐步教程，向你展示如何獲取必要的工具集，在Azure上創建和運行Silverlight企業應用程序。本書還涵蓋了Silverlight與Azure互動的技巧、實用提示、技巧和技巧。每個主題都以易於閱讀的方式撰寫，詳細解釋，然後提供實際的逐步練習，強調實際世界的相關性。

本書適合應用程序開發人員，他們希望使用Azure存儲、WCF服務和ASP提供程序來構建和運行Silverlight企業應用程序。你應該具備Silverlight和Expression Blend的工作知識。然而，不需要對Azure有所了解，因為本書會逐步引導你。