Beginning C# 6.0 Programming with Visual Studio 2015

Chapter 17Advanced Cloud Programing and Deployment

What you will learn in this chapter

• Creating an ASP.NET Web API
• Deploying and consuming an ASP.NET Web API on Microsoft Azure
• Scaling an ASP.NET Web API on Microsoft Azure

Wrox.com Code Downloads for this Chapter

The wrox.com code downloads for this chapter are found at www.wrox.com/go/beginningvisualc#2015programming on the Download Code tab. The code is in the Chapter 17 download and individually named according to the names throughout the chapter.

Now that you have spent some time learning about the cloud and cloud programming, let's move forward and write some C# code that is a little more complex than what you did in the previous chapter. In this chapter, you continue exploring both ASP.NET and Microsoft Azure. You will modify the CardLib program so that it runs in the cloud as an ASP.NET Web API and, once deployed, you consume it from an ASP.NET Web Site.

NOTE

To successfully complete the exercises in this chapter, you need a Microsoft Azure subscription. If you do not have one, you can sign up for a free trial here: http://azure.microsoft.com. It is quick and easy to do.

After creating, deploying, and consuming the ASP.NET Web API, you will learn how to scale it. The concept of scaling is important to grasp in the event that the cloud program you create becomes popular. The example in this chapter uses free Microsoft Azure cloud resources. These free resources have low CPU, memory, and bandwidth thresholds ...