Learning Microsoft Azure -- Table of Contents -- Learning Microsoft Azure -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Instant updates on new Packt books -- 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 with Microsoft Azure -- An overview of cloud computing -- Microsoft Azure overview -- Selecting a Microsoft Azure solution -- Infrastructure capabilities -- Platform capabilities -- Cost -- Decision flow diagrams -- Administration of Microsoft Azure systems -- Choosing a subscription -- Creating a Microsoft Azure account -- Adding a subscription -- Exploring the portal -- The top toolbar -- The side toolbar -- The bottom toolbar -- Examining Microsoft Azure Services -- Compute services -- Websites -- Virtual machines -- Mobile services -- Cloud services -- Data services -- SQL Server Database -- Storages -- HDInsight -- Cache -- Recovery services -- App services -- Media services -- Service Bus -- Visual Studio Online -- BizTalk Services -- Scheduler -- Active Directory (AD) -- Network services -- Virtual Network -- Traffic Manager -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- 2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure -- Designing scalable and resilient systems -- Systems architecture -- A case study of a small business system -- System requirements -- Identifying subsystems -- Customer website design -- Administration system design -- System integration -- Identifying critical systems -- Selecting services -- Conclusion of the small business case study -- A case study of an enterprise system - Azure Bakery -- System requirements.

Sales requirements -- Production requirements -- Supply requirements -- Identifying subsystems -- Sales subsystems -- Production subsystems -- Supply subsystems -- System design -- System design - the sales customer phone app -- System design - sales order processor -- Sales system integration -- Identifying critical services -- Selecting Microsoft Azure Services -- Selecting common services -- Messaging services -- Authentication -- Selecting sales services -- Selecting production services -- Selecting supply services -- Conclusion of an enterprise system case study - Azure Bakery -- Designing platform environments -- Common environment roles -- Example environment sets -- Using website deployment slots -- Using cloud service staging environments -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- 3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure -- Preparing our development environment -- Setting up software -- Mobile development -- The Microsoft Azure SDK -- Checking for Visual Studio updates -- Creating a website -- Configuring a website in the portal -- Creating a Visual Studio Online project -- Creating a Visual Studio Online account -- Creating a Visual Studio Online project -- Setting up continuous deployment -- Adding a solution to source control -- Configuring continuous deployment -- Examining the build definition -- Setting up alerts -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- 4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database -- Creating a database using the Azure management portal -- Building a database using Entity Framework (EF) Code First Migrations -- Creating the data model -- Configuring a database context -- Linking an authenticated user to the model -- Configuring the connection string -- Enabling migrations and updating the database -- Publishing with migrations -- Managing SQL Azure Servers and databases.

Managing a database through the portal -- Features of the management portal -- Managing a database using SSMS -- Managing a database through Visual Studio -- Using the table designer -- Using Azure PowerShell -- Choosing a management tool -- Backing up and restoring databases -- Automated exports -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- 5. Building Azure MVC Websites -- Implementing OAuth authentication -- Creating a Twitter application -- Modifying the external login -- Testing the Twitter login -- Completing the customer sales website -- Modifying the user account panel -- Temporary PayConfirm action -- Final activities -- Adding a custom domain name to a website -- Implementing an SSL certificate -- Creating CER files -- Using OpenSSL to create a PFX certificate -- Uploading the certificate -- Redirecting all HTTP traffic to HTTPS -- Adding Azure AD single sign-on to a website -- Configuring AD -- Configuring an MVC website for AD single sign-on -- Publishing the website with AD single sign-on -- Implementing Azure AD group authorization -- Creating an AD group -- Modifying the application service principal -- Implementing AzureAdAuthorizeAttribute -- Completing the admin sales website -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- 6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging -- Enabling diagnostics -- Working with logfiles -- Viewing logfiles in Visual Studio -- Streaming logs -- Filtering stream logs -- Downloading logs -- Accessing files using FTP -- Application logging -- Implementing tracing in the application -- Application logging to table storage -- Querying table data -- Application logging to blob storage -- Diagnosing a real bug -- Setting up the website -- Producing an error -- Site diagnostics -- Extra filesystem settings -- Site diagnostics using blob storage -- Kudu -- Remote debugging -- When to use remote debugging -- Summary -- Questions.

Answers -- 7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration -- Introducing Azure Service Bus and topics -- Dead-letter queues -- Creating a Service Bus topic -- Connecting a website to the Service Bus topic -- Preparing the website -- Creating messaging logic -- Sending a message from the controller -- The messaging simulator -- Setting up the project -- Creating a data service -- Creating a messaging service -- Completing the simulator -- Running the simulator -- Exploring the topic workspace -- The MONITOR tab -- The CONFIGURE tab -- The SUBSCRIPTIONS tab -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- 8. Building Worker Roles -- Introducing cloud services -- Exploring worker roles -- Creating a worker role -- Examining the worker role -- Examining the cloud service -- Running locally -- The compute emulator UI -- The storage emulator UI -- Publishing a worker role -- Building the production order processor -- Adding an entity model -- Preparing the Service Bus topic -- Adding an order processor task -- Creating TopicProcessorBase -- Implementing TopicProcessorBase -- Using OrderTopicProcessor in the worker role -- Creating a scheduled work activity -- Creating a scheduled job and queue -- Configuring a connection string -- Adding batch processor tasks -- Creating a storage queue processor base -- Implementing StorageQueueProcessorBase -- Completing the worker role -- Testing the production order processor -- Testing a single instance -- Testing multiple instances -- Deleting idle cloud services -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- 9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration -- Configuring diagnostics -- Adding local diagnostics -- Configuring Azure storage diagnostics -- Remote debugging -- Stopping the debugger -- Examining how remote debugging works -- Debugging with IntelliTrace -- Remote desktop connection.

Downloading a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) file -- Establishing an RDP connection -- Firewall issues -- Detecting configuration changes in code -- Start-up tasks -- Creating a batch script -- Adding the task -- Environmental variables -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- 10. Web API and Client Integration -- Introducing a Web API -- Introducing SignalR -- Building a Web API service -- Creating a Web API project -- Creating API controllers -- Creating a SignalR hub -- Publishing a Web API -- Modifying the Web API AD manifest -- Adding a client application to AD -- Building a client application -- Preparing the WPF project -- Creating an authentication base class -- Creating a data service -- Creating a SignalR service -- Completing the application -- Testing the application -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- 11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services -- Introducing Azure mobile services -- Creating the customer Azure mobile service -- Creating a mobile services project -- Exploring the mobile service sample project -- The sample table controller -- The sample data entity -- A sample scheduled job -- Mobile service DbContext -- WebApiConfig -- Cleaning up the project -- Integrating with the sales database -- Configuring development app settings -- Integrating authentication with the sales website -- Adding a channel registration API controller -- Adding an order controller -- Publishing the mobile service -- Creating a Windows Phone application -- Adding data services -- The DataServiceBase class -- The DataService class -- Setting up push notifications -- Modifying the manifest -- Adding a channel helper -- Notifications debug -- Completing the app -- Updating the order processor -- Updating the admin website -- Creating the supply mobile service -- Configuring a mobile service for Azure AD auth -- Creating the barcode controller.

Creating the order controller.