Windows Azure for .NET Developers

for .NET developers Lynn Langit Developer Evangelist - Microsoft http://blogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal

Windows Azure Operating system for the cloud Designed for utility computing 24/7 operation Pay for what you use Simpler, transparent administration Azure Services can: Manage Services (applications) AND /OR Host Services (applications) AND/OR Store Data

Azure Architecture .NET Services Windows Azure Live Services Applications – ‘web’ or ‘worker’ Applications SQL Services Others Windows Mobile Windows Vista/XP Windows Server

Azure Platform Azure ™ Services Platform

Azure Services .NET Services Windows Azure Live Services Applications Applications SQL Services Others Windows Mobile Windows Vista/XP Windows Server … Fabric Compute Storage Config Application

Interoperability Azure ™ Services Platform

Automated Service Management What’s in the model? Service topology and size Health constraints Configuration settings Develop and Model Deploy and Run Maintain Service Health

Fabric Windows Azure Fabric Load Balancer HTTP IIS VMs VMs Web Role Instance Worker Role Instance VMs Currently one-to-one, VM to Processor to Role … Fabric Compute Storage Application Agent Agent

How do I get started? Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5 SP1, IIS7, SQL Server Express 2008 *You can use Microsoft Web Platform Installer to get prereqs Then download resources and set up an Azure project Windows Azure SDK Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio CTP Request a token and create a project (either storage or hosted services) at the Azure site

Demo: A rich, familiar developer experience & Automated Service Management

An Azure Service Contains… One or more WEB Roles ASP.NET or WCF, via HTTP(S) or TCP/IP Sockets Should be stateless (for scalability) Use Azure storage for state –OR- Use client cookies One or more WORKER Roles Not exposed publically (in) Often uses queues Writes out to storage, or can expose publically (out)

Azure Storage Blobs Queues Tables HTTP Local Testing (*local tables in SQL Server instance) and Cloud deployment … Fabric Compute Storage Application

Scalable, Available Cloud Storage Simple, essential storage abstractions: Large items of user data: Blobs , file streams, … Service state: Simple tables, caches, … Service communication: Queues, locks, … Massive scale, availability and durability Geo-distribution and geo-replication

About Azure Services Your Applications

Getting Started Request an account - here Manage your account - here

.NET Services .NET Services Windows Azure Live Services Applications Applications SQL Services Others Windows Mobile Windows Vista/XP Windows Server Access Control Service Bus Workflow ?

.NET Services Access Control Services that authenticate and authorize Declarative model of rules and claims Works with identity-management infrastructures Service Bus Standardized messaging & registry services for endpoints Connects corp. resources with cloud services Workflow – Workflow in the Cloud

Live Services Identity Contacts Devices Synchronization via Mesh

.NET Services Windows Azure Live Services Applications Applications SQL Services Others Windows Mobile Windows Vista/XP Windows Server Live Framework (Cloud) Data Sync Live Framework (Desktop/Device) Application Live Operating Environment Live Operating Environment Live Services

Live Services Architecture Live Framework Hotmail . . . Live Operating Environment Your Applications Messenger Contacts Live Mesh Calendar Windows Live Applications Search . . . Maps Other Live Applications Live Services Users Communications and Presence Devices Applications Synchronization Identity Directory Storage Search Geospatial

SQL Services .NET Services Windows Azure Live Services Applications Applications SQL Services Others Windows Mobile Windows Vista/XP Windows Server SQL Data Services Others (Future)

Database Reference Data ETL Data Mining Reporting Data Sync

The ACE Model A uthority Unit of geo-location and billing (DNS name) C ontainer Partition of Data Widest domain of Query Collection of HeterogeneousEntities E ntity Property bag of name/value pairs Lightly-typed Unit of update/retrieval Schema-less, Flexible

Major Subsystems Partition Manager Master Node Service Management Master Cluster Data Cluster Fabric Replication Fetch Partition Map SQL Client Partition Manager Master Node SDS front-end Front-end Node Front-end Node Front-end Node Mgmt. Services Data Node SQL Server Fabric Data Node Components Data Node Components Data Access Library REST/SOAP ACE Logic Data Access Library REST/SOAP ACE Logic Mgmt. Services Data Node SQL Server Fabric Mgmt. Services Data Node SQL Server Fabric Mgmt. Services Data Node SQL Server Fabric Mgmt. Services Data Node SQL Server Fabric Data Access Library REST/SOAP ACE Logic

Data Sync Consolidates data from multiple sources Enables data sharing between mobile users, remote offices and business partners Allows leveraging cloud-computing for BI, ETL, Reporting Is an available, highly scalable endpoint Public App On Premises Assets and Data Mobile Users

"Huron" + MS Sync Framework Scale via SQL Data Services Consolidate business data in cloud & enable sharing to other desktops & mobile users Synchronize (network available) Each user does not have to be connected to a single database Out-of-the-box publication of Microsoft databases Solves the rendezvous problem More detail here Mobile Clients Rich Clients “ Huron” Sync Service SDS Direct Clients sync subset

Business Intelligence at a Glance SQL Server Analysis Server (SSAS) SQL Server Integration Server (SSIS) SSIS source component for SSDS Data Provider SQL Server Report Server (SSRS)

Reporting On-premises provider Can pull from SDS & on-premises data Leverage existing processes & assets Uses existing tools & run-time Flexible Report Builder Rich Visualizations

Report Designer: SSDS data sources

Report Designer: Query against SSDS

DM in the Cloud Test Data Types Relational CSV SQL Services

Data Mining and Excel integration

Calling the Cloud, from Excel 2007

Resources Azure Services Platform - here Ryan Dunn blog – here Sync Blog – here SQL Labs Incubation Projects – here SDS Provisioning Client – here My Blog (SoCalDevGal) - here

More Information http://blogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal Main Azure Site Development Environment (listed in install order) Install IIS 7.0 per Azure release notes – w/ ASP.NET and WCF HTTP Activation for Vista (optional) install PowerShell to run CloudDrive sample Azure SDK October Azure CTP tools for V S2008 Azure Services Training Kit

Get Microsoft Software for FREE For high school and college students - DreamSpark For startup businesses - BizSpark For everyone - Express editions – VS and SQL - here

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