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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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David Burela David Burela
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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Windows Azure 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

Summary


This chapter looked at a variety of options for enabling user authentication within your application.

Using WIF and Azure ACS is the preferred solution, however, the limited support for Silverlight may be a hindrance to their adoption.

When WIF is not an option, the ASP.NET provider model allows a developer to easily configure where user credentials and other information is stored. SQL Azure and Azure Storage were both offered as different solutions, with SQL Azure as the preferred option, as it is the one supported by Microsoft through the use of the universal providers. It was also noted that while SQL Azure is able to hold the session state, that AppFabric caching may be a better solution and should be explored.

The final chapter will introduce the use of Azure AppFabric caching to improve the application's performance.

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