Chapter 12. Local Application for Updates

With our web service and worker roles in place, it's time to develop the application our drivers will use in order to confirm that the customer has accepted his/her vehicle. What we're about to do can be accomplished by any technology capable of calling a web service, but we'll use a simple Windows application to build on our strengths in .NET development. Our aim here is to cover some basics of Windows forms development, and one way to connect Windows Forms to Azure. However, there are entire books dedicated to Windows Forms Development, so we'll cover only a few things, including building a simple form to consume our web service in our web role, taking the returned data, and updating list boxes and a label.