August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1224 pages
34h 17m
English
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Setting Up Your Development Environment
For the most part, you can create applications for the cloud as you would normally. This holds especially true for Web-related applications such as Silverlight, ASP.NET, WCF, and the like. Azure also allows for hosting more traditional applications using virtualized instances. However, our focus is developing and deploying to this new cloud and that means connected, hosted solutions.
The biggest change for your applications is that they are hosted via the AppFabric in a load-balanced scenario. You also have access to new data storage mechanisms, which can make it challenging to test your applications locally before moving to the cloud. Thankfully, the Azure SDK includes a local version of the AppFabric ...