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Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

You're reading from   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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683128
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration
Credits
About the Author
1. Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
2. www.PacktPub.com
3. Preface
1. Getting Started 2. Introduction to Windows Azure FREE CHAPTER 3. Hosting Silverlight Applications in Azure 4. Using Azure Queues with Silverlight 5. Accessing Azure Blob Storage from Silverlight 6. Storing Data in Azure Table Storage from Silverlight 7. Relational Data with SQL Azure and Entity Framework 8. RIA Services and SQL Azure 9. Exposing OData to Silverlight Applications 10. Web-scale Considerations 11. Application Authentication 12. Using Azure AppFabric Caching to Improve Performance

Chapter 7. Relational Data with SQL Azure and Entity Framework

Many enterprise applications require a relational database to persist business data. Microsoft offers a cloud-scale, relational database named SQL Azure. SQL Azure allows developers to begin with the building of cloud solutions quickly. This chapter will use Entity Framework to simplify the data access.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • SQL Azure

  • What Entity Framework is

  • Using SQL Azure in Silverlight

SQL Azure

SQL Azure offers a relational data store as part of the Windows Azure platform. It is highly available and requires less maintenance than a traditional on-premises SQL Server installation. SQL Azure is built on top of SQL Server technologies, which keeps the compatibility high with the existing technology stacks. This allows developers to jump quickly into a familiar environment and get started.

SQL Azure is a managed service. Microsoft handles all the basic maintenance and administration issues for you...

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