Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this Book
Author Online
About the Authors
About the Cover Illustration
1. Welcome to the cloud
Chapter 1. Getting to know Windows Azure
1.1. What’s the Windows Azure platform?
1.1.1. Windows is in the title, so it must be an operating system
1.1.2. Hosting and running applications the Azure way
1.2. Building your first Windows Azure web application
1.2.1. Setting up your environment
1.2.2. Creating a new project
1.2.3. Modifying the web page
1.2.4. Running the web page
1.3. Putting all the Azure pieces together
1.3.1. How the load balancer works
1.3.2. Creating worker roles
1.3.3. How the fabric and the Fabric Controller work
1.4. Storing data in the cloud with Azure
1.4.1. Understanding Azure’s shared storage mechanism
1.4.2. Storing and accessing BLOB data
1.4.3. Messaging via queues
1.4.4. Storing data in tables
1.5. Why run in the cloud?
1.5.1. Treating computing power as a utility service
1.5.2. Simplified data-center management
1.6. Inside the Windows Azure platform
1.6.1. SQL Server capability in the cloud
1.6.2. Enterprise services in the cloud
1.7. Summary
Chapter 2. Your first steps with a web role
2.1. Getting around the Azure SDK
2.1.1. Exploring the SDK folders
2.1.2. Using the Cloud Service project templates
2.1.3. Running the cloud locally
2.1.4. How the local and cloud environments differ
2.2. Taking Hello World to the next level
2.2.1. Creating the project