Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
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

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683128
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
David Burela David Burela
Author Profile Icon David Burela
David Burela
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

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

Summary


In this chapter, we looked at the considerations that should be used while deciding between Azure Table storage or SQL Azure. The type of software project you are working on dictates the choice of technology that is better for you. In general, most standard business applications may benefit from the speed of the implementation by using SQL Azure. Small niche implementations or systems on a massive scale may benefit from using Table storage.

Next, we explored how Table storage works under the covers, as well as how it uses partitions to scale the performance of the data retrieval.

Finally, a Silverlight application was created that demonstrated how to persist data back to Table storage, how the two entities of different shapes can be retrieved from the same table, as well as how to interact with it from a Silverlight client.

In the next chapter, we will look at how the relational data can be used in

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime