Introducing Windows Azure- P63

Introducing Windows Azure- P63:The cloud platform is getting more and more attractive to the computing world. Today, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and aspect-oriented programming (AOP) techniques are widely used in enterprise solutions. A question an IT management team or a software development team may ask is, what is the next trend going to be? Cloud computing seems to be the right answer. | A P P E N D I X Table A-1. Specifications for Windows Azure Blob Storage Specification Tables Queues Blobs ID Block ID b4 byte block Blob metadata 8 KB blob Blocks 4 MB each Container Name Valid DNS resolvable name 3-63 characters Letters numbers and dash Every dash must be immediately preceded and followed by a letter or number. Alphanumeric Valid DNS resolvable Narnp NaUle characters only Must be in lowercase Case-insensitive 3-63 characters 3-63 characters Begin with a letter or Up to 255 entity number properties including PartitionKey RowKey First and last letter and Timestamp must be alphanumeric. Letters numbers and dashes are accepted. 1 024 characters Reserved URL characters must be properly escaped. Blob storage is not hierarchical specify a delimiter within a blob name to create a virtual hierarchy endpoint address. Dash may not be the first or last letter Property Case-sensitive Must be unique 313 APPENDIX Specification Tables Queues Blobs Name Alphanumeric characters only Maximum 255 characters Must starting with a letter Capacities 1 mb 8 KB message Public blob 64 MB FIFO First In First Public block public list Out 50 GB each Infinite number of messages Azure Service Management Tools Azure Service Management Tools can be downloaded from http AzureManagementTools. Follow the instructions to install on your local development system. When you first start this Windows snap-in you need to enter your Azure solution name as the user name as Figure A-1 shows. Figure A-1. The Azure solution name should be entered as User Name for Azure Services 314 Index A Access Control Service 129-70 building cloud application with 131-41 with CardSpace security 141-69 AccessControlHelper class 162 accessing cloud blob storage 96-111 accessing cloud table storage 1-41 data tables updating in buckets 35 3641 single storage table 1-23 data entity class constructors 17 deleting and updating entities 2435 leveraging developing fabric services 19 logging .