Transcript Getting Started with Windows Azure Bret Stateham Owner, Net Connex [email protected] blogs.netconnex.com twitter.com\bstateham Agenda • • • • Intro to Azure Signing Up for Azure Development Tools Running some Code.

Getting Started with Windows
Azure
Bret Stateham
Owner, Net Connex
[email protected]
blogs.netconnex.com
twitter.com\bstateham
Agenda
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Intro to Azure
Signing Up for Azure
Development Tools
Running some Code
Requisite Azure Platform Stack Slide
Slide Content Stolen from a Microsoft Slide Deck
Inside the Windows Azure Platform
• Computing Services
•Our Code
•Web Role
•Worker Role
•They Manage
•Multiple Instances
•Patching
•Failure
•Etc.
• Cloud Storage
•Our Data
•Blob
•Table
•Queue
•They Manage
•Disks
•Replication
•Failure
•Etc.
Signing up for Azure
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Go to www.microsoft.com/azure
Follow the Links to “Register for Services”
Sign up with Connect
Complete Azure Services Invitations Program
application
• Wait for token in email (days,weeks,months)
• Follow the link in the email to claim the
token
Claimed Tokens
• Go to the Azure Services Developer Portal:
lx.azure.microsoft.com
Stuff to Get
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Windows Azure SDK (01/19 CTP)
Windows Azure tools for Visual Studio (01/09 CTP)
Microsoft .Net Services SDK
Microsoft SQL Data Services SDK
Live Framework Documentation and Resources
Azure Services Training Kit
Gotchas
• Have to be on Vista SP1 or Win 2008 (Win7?)
• Need IIS7 & WCF HTTP Activation
• Need SQL Express (05 or 08) by default
Running with Full SQL Install
• SDK Assumes you will be using Express (05 or
08)
• Edit the following files:
– %samples%\MSBuild\Microsoft.Samples.ServiceHosting.Targets file
– C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.0\bin\DevelopmentStorage.exe.config
• See the following blog post on indiangeek.net:
Using Windows Azure SDK with
SQL Server 2005/2008
Remember this is a CTP
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Some things aren’t pretty
Some things will break
Some things will change
Cloud computing is inevitable, so jump in
now!
Samples
• In the Azure SDK there is a samples.zip
• Expand that and run the
“RunDevStorage.cmd” this will prep the SQL
Express instance.
Service Roles
• Web Role
– ASP.NET Web Site
– Listens on HTTP/HTTPS
– Can work with storage
• Worker Role
– Background processing
– Can work with storage
– Can read requests from a queue
Quick Demo
Development Fabric
Service Definition
• The ServiceDefinition.csdef file contains the
Service Definition
• Defines Roles
– Web Role (http/https, port)
– Worker Role
• Defines available Configuration Settings
Service Configuration
• The ServiceConfiguration.cscfg File
• Instances of each role
• Sets values for Configuration Settings Value
Quick Demo
Publishing my App
Production
Staging
Development
Deploying your App
• In Visual Studio use “Publish”
– Builds & Creates…
– CSPkg (Basically a zip of the binaries+)
– CSCfg
• Go to: lx.azure.microsoft.com
• Two Environments
– Staging
– Production
• Can take a some time to initialize
Example of Initializing…
Cloud Storage
• Blobs
– Store files, etc.
• Tables
– Collections of items with properties
• Queues
– FIFO Queue
• However I’ve heard it may be more like FIPFO
Where P = Probably
Other Sessions
• My Sessions:
– Today
• Getting Started with SQL Data Services (11:15am in UH 335)
– Tomorrow
• SQL Server Integration Services Control Flows (10:15 in H 110)
• SQL Server Integration Services Control Flows (11:30 in H 110)
Thanks!
• Stay in touch:
[email protected]
blogs.netconnex.com
twitter: @BStateham
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