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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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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

Azure Table storage


Azure Tables are cheaper ways of storing large volumes of structured data. When used correctly, Azure Tables are extremely scalable and faster ways of storing and retrieving the data. The data stored in the Table storage does not have a fixed schema (like a table in a standard database). Instead, the entities are schema-less and flexible. Each of the columns can be better thought of as a name or a value pair. It is possible to store multiple entities in the same table that uses different properties.

Accessing Azure Table storage

Azure Table storage can be accessed in the same way as explained in Chapter 4, Using Azure Queues in Silverlight. The Table service is exposed through a REST API, and can be accessed directly or with the Windows Azure storage client library.

The URL to access Table storage can be broken down into the following components:

http://<StorageAccount>.table.core.windows.net/<TableName>?$filter=<Query>
  • Storage account: It is the name...

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