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Understanding the AppFabric – Implementing the Publish & ListenMarch 12

Weather Station

This app uses the service bus and does not need to be deployed to the service bus.

It simply uses the AppFabric as a "relay" for publishers to communicate with consumers in a many to many fashion.

It demonstrates AppFabric’s Service Bus in a cool way, specifically using a binding that supports multicast eventing and allows N event publishers and M event consumers to rendezvous at the same endpoint.

In my example, multiple publishers get weather (based on a zip code) and publish it to multiple listeners. Once the listener gets the weather, it pops up a window with the weather information it received.

This application gets the weather from the a web service at the National Weather Service and simply “relays” the weather to listeners.

Uses WPF. You can run any number of publishers and consumers at the same time.

Demo Video

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http://brunoblogfiles.com/videos/azure/WeatherStation.wmv

 

Purpose of Screen: High Level View of the AppFabric as a
Whacky Photos – Source Code and DemoMarch 12

I modified the source code for the Windows Azure Guest Book Application in Windows Platform Training kit.

Why you should know this sample

It demonstrates a lot of great stuff:

  • Web Role
  • Worker Role
  • Blobs
  • Tables
  • Queues

This happens in the context of one application.

Here is what it looks like in the cloud:

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http://brunoblogfiles.com/videos/WhackyPhotosDemo.wmv

 

Purpose of Screen: Illustrate Whacky Photos in the cloud
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How To Get This Screen: : Just run the app (locally or in the cloud)

Source code is here:



Free Webcasts – IE8 Add On Features & Azure Design PatternsMarch 10

Each month through June 2010, we’ll bring you a 60-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs.

March 25, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST

Title:  Extending Your Sites Reach with IE8 Add On Features

Abstract Today's users are getting more sophisticated and they expect more features from the sites and services they use. In this session learn about how to implement low effort, high value add-ons that expand your sites reach and bring value to your customer base .

Link to Register: https://swrt.worktankseattle.com/webcast/4240/preview.aspx

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March 26, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST

Title:  Windows Azure Design Patterns

Abstract:One of the challenges in adopting a new platform is finding usable design patterns that work for developing effective solutions. The Catch-22 is that design patterns are discovered and not invented. Nevertheless it is important to have some guidance on what design patterns make sense early in the game.

This webcast attacks the problem through a set of appli

SQL Azure – Relational Database as a Service – Soup to Nuts – The Whole EnchiladaFebruary 23

This post will be very direct. It will get a database running in the Azure cloud as quickly as possible. There is plenty of material about why SQL Azure might be of interest and how it works. Go to Bing and type SQL Azure and you’ll get all the reasons that SQL Azure is the right solution in many scenarios. www.microsoftpdc.com is a great place to start.

Brief Goals

  • Build a simple data driven ASP.NET Page using the graphical controls in Visual Studio 2008
  • Develop against a local SQL Server/SQL Express database before connecting to SQL Azure

Steps in this post

  1. Create the northwind database
  2. Add northwind to sql server
  3. Create a cloud project with 1 web role
  4. Add a grid and attach grid’s data source our data (Northwind database)
  5. Run our cloud application against local data
  6. Create a SQL Azure database
  7. Download and install the SQL Server Migration Wizard
  8. Upload the customers table to SQL Azure
  9. Change our connection string to point our app to the cloud
  10. Run our app and verify everything works using the data from SQL Azure (NorthwindInCloud)

The Northwind database – where to download

Do a search on Bing for “Northwind and pubs Sample Databases for SQL Server 2000” and you should find this link: