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DZone > Cloud Zone > Here's Why Developers Should be Interested in Windows Azure

Here's Why Developers Should be Interested in Windows Azure

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Apr. 04, 12 · Cloud Zone · Interview
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The building block services for Windows Azure are Access Control Services (ACS), Caching, and Service Bus.  These are incredibly powerful services available as part of Windows Azure.  You can use them on their own*, outside of any Windows Azure hosted applications, to enhance your existing or new applications.  They’re also great for enhancing developer productivity – because not many people want to write their own identity management, caching, or messaging layer.  These just let you consume the service and focus on your core application.

You can view the full webcast at http://www.neudesic.com/media/webcasts/20120307/20120307.wmv.

I’m making the slides available as well.

 

Windows Azure for Developers - Building Block Services
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At the end of the webcast, a few questions came up that I mentioned I would try to provide some answers for on my blog.

Q: How to use ACS from a Silverlight application?

A: I haven’t personally tried this yet, but it seems others have.  Here are a few resources I would recommend to learn more

    • Developing Identity-Driven Silverlight Applications
    • Active Federation using RIA Services and WIF
    • Access Control Service Samples and Documentation

Q: How to use ACS with Active Directory?

A: Have a look at the “Single Sign-On from Active Directory to a Windows Azure Application Whitepaper”.

* I wouldn’t necessarily recommend using the cache service outside of Windows Azure as the network latency (going over the internet) would likely reduce any benefit of caching.

 

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