Silverlight in the Mesh and the “Cloud” – Introduction/Teaser (Part 1)
Hello,
For quite some time I’m investigating the Azure Services and Live Framework. After gaining some experience, I decided to build simple project - Content Store – to share with you how to build the next generation of applications.
My “Cloud Store” project will use Windows Azure Storage Account to persist content at the cloud, will use Windows Azure Hosted Services as business logic provider (submit contents to the store, display the contents and “purchase” it). Also, my project will use Live Framework Mesh Silverlight applications to provide UI for content submitters and content viewers/buyers.
Schematically my project looks like follows:
The store itself will be pretty simple – not the real store with security restrictions, money transactions, etc. – to keep the project as simple as possible. In my “ideal” world everyone will be able to submit content, and everyone will be able to “purchase” content for free :)
Along with it, it will include the demos about how to work with storage account (blobs and possibly tables), how to create/consume hosted services, how to create Mesh applications and consume hosted services from there. Also it will show how to create mesh objects to store purchased content at users Live desktop (at the mesh).
All parts will be accompanied with sources, but to use the sources you will need to have access to Azure Services Developer Portal and have an ability to create a new projects. At the current stage you have to be a member of CTP to do it.
Stay tuned for next parts really soon.
Enjoy,
Alex