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Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development

You're reading from   Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development Straight talking advice on how to design and build enterprise applications for the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680981
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing FREE CHAPTER 2. The Nickel Tour of Azure 3. Setting Up for Development 4. Designing our Sample Application 5. Introduction to SQL Azure 6. Azure Blob Storage 7. Azure Table Storage 8. Queue Storage 9. Web Role 10. Web Services and Azure 11. Worker Roles 12. Local Application for Updates 13. Azure AppFabric 14. Azure Monitoring and Diagnostics 15. Deploying to Windows Azure Index

Working with queues


The client class for working with queues via .NET code is Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.CloudQueue. The methods listed here are methods of this class, unless specified otherwise. The documentation for this library can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.windowsazure.storageclient.cloudqueue.aspx.

Documentation for the REST library for Queue Storage can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179363.aspx. The base URI for accessing queues via the REST API is http://<account>.queue.core.windows.net. To perform an operation on a specific queue, the URI is http://<account>.queue.core.windows.net/<queue> and the different HTTP verbs (PUT, GET, DELETE) are used to determine the action.

When using the REST API, every operation has an optional timeout parameter that sets the processing timeout of the operation. If the operation does not complete by the timeout, it will fail. The default value is 30 seconds, which...

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