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 -- 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 -- 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.