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Silver Lining for Windows Azure -- Silverlight 2 Sample Hosted in Azure

OK, so I'm starting to sound repetitive about my excitement around Windows Azure, but I really think it will help developers create new products with an all time low cost to enter their specific market.   Not only will it cost less to enter into their market, I think it will help them scale their service offerings as their business grows.  We all want our businesses to grow, but many of the initial development choices one makes when driving to release a product do not always make sense when your customer base grows in a few orders of magnitude.

I'm also stoked about the Silverlight Toolkit released 10.29.2008 (haven't used stoked in a while - I wonder if I can bring it back...).  These controls make developing for Silverlight a real joy.  I was skeptical about the Silverlight 1 release, as well as the initial release of WPF (which is like forever ago), not because of the architecture or technology, but because of the lack of controls.  In the case of WPF, many of my fellow developers refused to move from Windows Forms, because of the rich tool sets they already had.  I think MS heard the call and has worked to remedy the situation.

I melded an Azure Web Role project and the Silverlight Toolkit sample to give you guys a quick download, so you can play with them together.  I hope you like it, and I hope it helps you explore some of the new technology.  I call it SilverLining.

You'll need the Azure SDK, and Silverlight tools.

Twitter: @DavidJustice

Posted: Nov 08 2008, 04:00 AM by David Justice | with 10 comment(s) |
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Community Blogs said:

In this issue: Joseph Ghassan, Boyan Nikolov, James Bacom, David Justice, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth

# November 9, 2008 5:29 PM

Mike Brown said:

We've taken the sample and hosted it in our Azure CTP account. azurecoding.cloudapp.net

# November 10, 2008 5:22 AM

DotNetKicks.com said:

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# November 14, 2008 1:11 AM

Brownie Points said:

Earlier today, my partner in crime, David Justice, decided to take the Silverlight Toolkit Sample and

# November 14, 2008 1:36 PM

Sorin Dolha said:

First of all, thanks for answering a question like: could Silverlight controls be used within a Web application hosted on Windows Azure? The answer is obvious from your post, and as expected: of course!

I wonder, however, could a WPF Browser Application (XBAP) or a ClickOnce-published WPF Application be hosted in Windows Azure? How could that be done?

# March 14, 2009 11:37 AM

John said:

I am not sure if it is my environment but when I run this project it opens the browser to address http://127.0.0.1:81/

and shows nothing.

To test that SilverLight was functioning I set the SilverLining.Web project as startup along with Default.aspx as startup page and it renders as a stand alone web site.

Is anyone else experiencing this isssue?

# March 23, 2009 5:07 AM

John said:

Further if I create a simple Cloud Web service with simple ASP.Net page it works.

# March 23, 2009 5:18 AM

John said:

Update...

My issue was relating to IIS...

I did not have .xap application/x-silverlight-app MIME type registered within IIS.

Once I restarted IIS all was well

# March 23, 2009 5:54 AM

Clayton said:

There's a good example about silverlight on azure:

http://y.cloudapp.net

# April 25, 2009 11:57 PM

Bud said:

So how do I move this to Visual Basic 2008 and Silverlight 3. Or can I rebuild it and send it to you.

bud@dotnetchecks.com

# November 2, 2009 6:46 PM
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