Introduction to Windows Azure: An Introduction to Cloud Computing Using Microsoft Windows Azure

✍ Scribed by Henry Li (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Windows Azure is Microsoft's next-generation cloud-computing operating system and is designed to provide companies with new business opportunities as they migrate toward hosted services.

Introducing Microsoft Azure provides all the information developers need to get started with this technology and apply it across a range of situations. Presented in a clear, concise manner, this book provides a carefully measured learning curve for surmounting the architectural and coding challenges that need to be faced when building a well-balanced Windows Azure service.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Create Cloud Table Storage....Pages 1-23
Access Cloud Table Storage....Pages 25-65
Working with Cloud Queue and Blob Storage....Pages 67-111
Windows Azure Application Integration Using WCF....Pages 113-128
Azure .NET Services—Access Control....Pages 129-170
Azure .NET Services—Service Bus....Pages 171-209
Azure .NET Services—Workflows....Pages 211-242
SQL Azure....Pages 243-296
Deploy Applications and Production Maintenance....Pages 297-311
Back Matter....Pages 313-324

✦ Subjects

Programming Techniques