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Keith Pijanowski
5/7/2009 10:54 AM
A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform
On Tuesday I keynoted the Cloud Track of Microsoft’s Enterprise Developer Conference in New York city. You can find my PowerPoint at the link below.
During the talk I showed a code demo of the web application shown below. This web application is my training log. It is a web application that runs completely within Windows Azure. I use to keep track the workouts I do on my mountain bike, my lifecycle and my elliptical trainer. It uses Windows Azure Table Storage to hold my data.
Currently my code is not in a good state because when I am learning something new I like to charge ahead and get things running as quickly as possible. However, I based my application on a sample that comes with the Windows Azure Software Development Kit. The sample that I modified for my web application is the PersonalWebSite sample. The sample in its unaltered form looks like this:
The image above uses the “White” style sheet theme. There is also a “Black” style sheet theme. Changing the “styleSheetTheme” setting in web.config to “Black” makes the application look like this:
This is a better starting point for any personal project you may want to kick off. The solution contains a web role (the user interface shown above), a StorageClient project, and an AspProviders project. The StorageClient project provides an easy to use object model for using Windows Azure Table storage. The AspProviders project contains a Membership Provider, a Role Provider, a Session State Provider, and a Profile Provider that all utilize Windows Azure Table storage to hold their information.
C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.0
In this directory you will see a file named samples.zip. Unzip it and look for a folder named PersonalWebSite. This folder contains the PersonalWebSite solution.
Note: Before installing this development kit, make sure you are running the latest versions of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. The latest versions are Visual Studio 2008 SP1and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. To upgrade your environment to this version us the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Installer – this installer will upgrade both Visual Studio and the .NET Framework.
Thanks to all who attended our conference.
-Keith
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5 comments so far...
Re: A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform
Hi Keith - the link to the powerpoint gets a 404
By Matt on
5/8/2009 4:23 AM
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Re: A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform
It is fixed now.
Keith
By keithpij on
5/8/2009 7:36 PM
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Re: A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform
Thank you for sharing! Réparé et que - cela fonctionne pour moi!
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