Windows Azure

Course Overview:

The Windows Azure is the public cloud platform provided by Microsoft. Windows Azure provides reliable, scalable and highly available hosting environment. Windows Azure platform includes Windows Azure, Microsoft SQL Azure, and Windows Azure platform AppFabric.

Course Content:

Introduction

♦ O/s & cloud o/s
♦ .Net Framework for cloud
♦ Developers with cloud
♦ Windows azure – MS cloud o/s
♦ Demo – VS.NET support for Cloud / Glance of AZURE Portal

More windows Azure benefits

♦ Azure installation – Create azure apps from scratch
♦ Azure roles – web & worker
♦ Programing asp.net apps for azure

Visual studio templates

♦ Working with azure portal
♦ Uploading & testing azure apps
♦ Publishing on azure apps
♦ Configuring azure apps

Web roles – More detailed

♦ Basic role configuration – Development fabric and its uses
♦ Local debugging
♦ Developing & deploying

More examples of azure

♦ Web forms & MVC
♦ Ajax & stateless web roles
 

Building service oriented azure applications

♦ Adding WCF service to ASP.net application
♦ WCF service role
♦ Programming WCF services , attributes & configuration
♦ Implementing WCF service

Building interoperable azure services

♦ Locating azure service – adding service references
♦ Setting WCF bindings – access azure service using SOAP [or] rest
♦ Employing azure service s from WPF, Silverlight & non .net environments

Storage in windows azure

♦ Understand storage partitions in azure
♦ Storage partitions strategies
♦ Using Tables-using Blobs-using Queue
♦ All CRUD operations using azure storage

SQL azure-creating a/c

♦ What are the differences SQL azure-SQL serner
♦ Migration-made easy-tool support
♦ Demo using SQL azure data-creating/accessing
♦ Microsoft sync framework-synchronization

Windows azure for windows phone/IPHONE/android

♦ Toolkit – Windows Phone , IPHONE & Android
♦ Demos

Metro Apps

♦ New style of developing desktop & hybrid apps
♦ Windows 8 App with windows azure
♦ Creating Metro App consuming AZURE and other Cloud services.