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You Will Learn How To
- Build scalable, fault-tolerant and secure cloud-based applications using the Windows Azure Platform
- Leverage existing knowledge of Visual Studio and .NET to develop applications for the cloud
- Create, deploy, configure and monitor ASP.NET applications that run in the Azure cloud
- Host Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services using Azure
- Leverage Azure compute services for asynchronous processing
- Create and access SQL Azure databases for cloud-based storage
Course Benefits The Windows Azure Platform is the Microsoft solution for cloud computing. The Azure Platform provides operating system, database and application services that simplify administration, streamline maintenance and reduce costs. This course provides the knowledge to build and deploy applications that utilize the Windows Azure Platform using Visual Studio and .NET.
Who Should Attend Programmers, architects and application designers who would like to take advantage of Microsoft Azure services to create scalable, secure and affordable cloud-based applications. .NET programming experience is assumed.
Hands-On Training Exercises provide practical experience building and deploying Azure applications using Visual Studio and .NET. Exercises include:
- Creating a Windows Azure account
- Testing Azure applications with the development fabric
- Uploading an ASP.NET application to the cloud
- Storing data in blobs and tables
- Enabling Web Forms authentication, sessions and profiles for Azure applications
- Hosting a WCF service within the cloud
- Utilizing Azure queues for asynchronous processing
- Saving relational data in the cloud with SQL Azure
Course 2602 Content Introduction to Azure Features and Services
- Scalablity
- Fault tolerance
- Security
- Affordability
- Cloud-based storage
- AppFabric
- SQL Azure
Developing Azure Applications with Visual Studio
Creating a Windows Azure program
- Registering a Windows Azure account
- Building Azure projects in Visual Studio
- Adding Web and Worker roles
- Programming ASP.NET applications for Azure
Uploading and testing Azure applications
- Testing applications using the development fabric
- Publishing an Azure application
- Configuring Azure applications
Saving data with Azure blob storage
- Configuring blob storage locally and for the cloud
- Adding blob containers
- Saving, listing, accessing and deleting blobs
Storing structured data using Azure tables
- Configuring table storage
- Creating entities
- Controlling concurrency and transactions
Migrating ASP.NET Applications to Azure
Deploying Azure applications to production
- Monitoring and debugging cloud-based applications
- Scaling Azure applications
- Reconfiguring Azure applications
Customizing Web Forms security for Azure
- Employing Azure-enabled membership and role providers
- Configuring access rules and roles
- Leveraging ASP.NET login controls within Azure
- Implementing transport security with SSL
Enabling ASP.NET sessions and profiles for Azure
- Investigating design considerations for Azure Web applications
- Writing sessions to Azure storage
- Modifying profile configuration for Azure
Building Service-Oriented Azure Applications
Hosting WCF services with Azure
- Adding WCF services to an ASP.NET application
- Creating a WCF Service Web Role
- Programming WCF interfaces, attributes and configuration
- Implementing a WCF service
Building interoperable Azure services
- Locating Azure services
- Adding service references
- Setting WCF bindings
- Accessing Azure services using SOAP or REST
- Employing Azure services from WPF, Silverlight and PHP
Leveraging Azure for Asynchronous Computing
Adding worker roles to Visual Studio projects
- Asynchronous background processing
- Sending messages to queues
- Reading queued messages
Utilizing the AppFabric Service Bus
- Discovering distributed services
- Sending one-way messages
- Crafting two-way, full duplex services
Controlling access using AppFabric
- Supported Standards
- Authenticating users
- Authorizing users by role
SQL Azure Cloud-Based Storage
Overview of SQL Azure
- Creating a SQL Azure account
- Identifying the differences between SQL Azure and SQL Server
- SQL Azure tool support
Creating a SQL Azure database
- Migrating SQL Server databases to SQL Azure
- Running SQL Scripts to create a SQL Azure database
- Leveraging SQL Server Management Studio
Accessing a SQL Azure database
- Connecting to a SQL Azure Database for cloud-based storage
- Querying Azure databases with ADO.NET
- Synchronizing SQL Azure and local data
- Utilizing the Microsoft Sync Framework
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