Chapter 3. Hosting Silverlight Applications in Azure
It can be difficult to combine multiple different frameworks into the same solution while working with new technologies. This chapter will focus on how to combine Silverlight 4, Windows Azure, and a WCF 4.0 (Windows Communication Foundation) service together.
In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:
Combining Silverlight and Windows Azure projects
Consuming an Azure-hosted WCF service within a Silverlight application
Configuring the number of web roles
Combining Silverlight and Windows Azure projects
Standard Silverlight applications require that they be hosted on HTML pages, so that they can be loaded in a browser. Developers who work with the .Net framework will usually host this page within an ASP.Net website.
The easiest way to host a Silverlight application on Azure is to create a single web role that contains an ASP.Net application to host the Silverlight application. Hosting the Silverlight application in this way enables...