Azure Services Platform

Pradeep SPushpendra SinghConsultants, Neudesic Technologies, Hyderabad, India

• Windows Azure• Components• Compute Services• Storage Services• Fabric• Demo

Agenda

Windows Azure

Components

Compute Services

• Blobs Stored in containers Metadata & object contents Store large objects in binary format (<= 50GB)

• Tables NOT relational(traditional), NO schema Entities with properties Access using ADO.NET data services or LINQ

•Queues

Reliable persistent messaging Communication b/w web & worker role

Storage Services

Accessing Data

Over HTTP in a RESTful way

http://<StorageAccount>.blob.core.windows.net/<Container>/<BlobName> http://<StorageAccount>.table.core.windows.net/<TableName>?$filter=<Query>http://<StorageAccount>.queue.core.windows.net/<QueueName>

Tables

The Fabric

Scenario

Prerequisites

• Windows vista/Windows server 2008• IIS 7.0 with ASP.NET/WCF Http Activation• Visual Web Developer Express/Visual Studio

2008• .NET 3.5 SP1• SQL Server 2005/2008 Express

Tools

• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio• Windows Azure SDK

Environment

Demo

Q & A

http://www.microsoft.com/azure http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd727504.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd727502.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd569759.aspx

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