With the introduction of Windows Azure I was looking for something I could write where I could kick the tires and see what’s involved with this new technology. For a quick overview what I came up with, please see the video video I created for my Mix09 “Show Off” entry hosted on SoapBox. My first (of hopefully many) Azure applications I created is online at http://www.tweetmyrun.net. The user experience needs a little tweaking but it seems to be working great!
This application uses the following technologies:
- Windows Live Authentication
- Windows Azure Hosting Services
- Windows Azure Table Storage
- Silverlight 2.0 “talking” to Azure via WCF
Here’s are some high-level bullet points you need to get started:
- Download the Windows Azure SDK
- Download the Windows Visual Studio Tools for Azure
- Apply to participate in the beta.
- Create a library project to contain your DAL, I found this post as a great starting point.
- Start your development storage from the start menu after configuring the your table storage settings with the following settings:
- AccountName = devstoreaccount1
- Shared Key = Eby8vdM02xNOcqFlqUwJPLlmEtlCDXJ1OUzFT50uSRZ6IFsuFq2UVErCz4I6tq/K1SZFPTOtr/KBHBeksoGMGw==
- Storage Endpoint = 127.0.0.1:<StoragePort>
- Create BAT file to extract the settings from your DAL assembly to create tables to simulate you Azure Table Storage with something similar to:
"Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.0\bin\DevtableGen.exe" /forceCreate "/server:localhost\SQLExpress" "/database:MyDatabase" obj\Debug\MyDAL.dll
pause - For more information on configuring IIS 7.0 click here.
- Although you can certainly test your application on the local development fabric, as long as you create your site as a web role, you can test most of the features as just a standard IIS web site.
- When working with Live Authentication redirection back to your server, I found creating an entry in your HOSTS file works good.
If you have any questions, please free to message me on Twitter via @bytemaster
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