Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

A step-by-step guide to creating and running scalable Silverlight Enterprise Applications on the Windows Azure platform with this book and ebook

Key Features

• 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

Book Description

What you will learn

• 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

Who this book is 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.