Developing Microsoft® SharePoint® Applications Using Windows Azure™ by Fox, Steve -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Developing Microsoft® SharePoint® Applications Using Windows Azure™

Introduction

Who Should Read This Book

Assumptions

Who Should Not Read This Book Organization of This Book Conventions and Features in This Book System Requirements Code Samples

Installing the Code Samples Using the Code Samples

Acknowledgments Errata and Book Support We Want to Hear from You Stay in Touch

1. Welcome to SharePoint and Windows Azure

Welcome to the Cloud What Is Windows Azure? What About SharePoint? Integrating SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure

What Are the Possibilities?

Getting Ready to Develop

Getting Started with Windows Azure Setting Up Your Development Environment Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

Configure Hyper-V for the IW VM Configure Your Network Switches Create Your First Windows Azure Application

Summary Additional References

2. Getting Started with SharePoint and Windows Azure

Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket

WCF Data Services and Publicly Consumable Data Feeds Getting Started with Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket

Integrating DataMarket Data with Excel and SharePoint

Consume Windows Azure Data in Excel 2010

Consume Windows Azure Data in Excel 2010 Publish Excel Objects to Excel Services Surface Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket Data by Using SharePoint Excel Services

Integrating DataMarket Data with a Visual Web Part

Create a WCF Service to Retrieve DATA.gov Crime Data

Create a WCF Service to Retrieve DATA.gov Crime Data Deploy a WCF Service to IIS Consume a WCF Service in a Visual Web Part

Integrating Silverlight, Windows Azure DataMarket, and SharePoint

Create a Silverlight Application to Display DataMarket Data and Deploy It to SharePoint

Summary Additional References

3. Consuming SQL Azure Data

Introduction to Business Connectivity Services

What Is Business Connectivity Services? External Content Types

Integrating SQL Azure with BCS by Using SharePoint Designer 2010

Create a SQL Azure Database

Securing the Connection to SQL Azure

Create an Application ID

Create an Application ID Create an External Content Type Set Permissions for an External Content Type Surface SQL Azure Data in a Visual Web Part

Summary Additional References

4. SQL Azure and Advanced Web Part Development

Interacting with SQL Azure Data Integrating the SharePoint Server Object Model and the Entity Data Model

Create a Console Application to Write Data to a SharePoint List

Create a Meeting Scheduler Visual Web Part

Surfacing SQL Azure Data in Bing Maps by Using the Client Object Model

Integrating Silverlight, SQL Azure, Bing, and the SharePoint Client Object Model

Summary Additional References

5. Using Windows Azure BLOB Storage in SharePoint Solutions

Overview of Windows Azure BLOB Storage Integrating BLOB Storage and SharePoint

Creating the Application

Create an ASP.NET Application to Populate BLOB Storage

Deploying the Application

Deploy the ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure

Integrating the Application with SharePoint

Integrate an ASP.NET Application with SharePoint by Using IFRAME

Consuming BLOB Storage Data with a Simple Listbox

Consume BLOB Storage Data with a Simple Listbox

Consuming BLOB Storage Data with Silverlight

Consume BLOB Storage Data within a Silverlight Application

Summary Additional References

6. Integrating WCF Services and SharePoint

Creating and Deploying a WCF Service to Windows Azure

Create a WCF Service and Deploy It to Windows Azure

Creating a Web Part

Create a Web Part That Uses the Windows Azure WCF Service

Create a Web Part That Uses the Windows Azure WCF Service Configure the SharePoint Server web.config File

Creating a Silverlight Web Part

Create and Deploy a Silverlight Web Part That Consumes the WCF Service

Creating a Custom List and Event Receiver

Create a SharePoint List and Add an Event Receiver That Calls a Windows Azure WCF Service

Summary Additional References

7. Using SQL Azure for Business Intelligence

Preparing the Data

Create Sales Data for the Business Intelligence Dashboard

Creating a Report

Create a Reporting Services Report by Using SQL Azure Data

Using a WCF Service to Integrate SQL Azure Data with SharePoint

Creating a WCF Service

Create a WCF Service to Access Sales Data

Creating a Dashboard

Create a Simple Sales Dashboard by Using the Silverlight Toolkit

Summary Additional References

8. Using the Windows Azure Service Bus with SharePoint

Windows Azure AppFabric

Integrating with SharePoint by Using Windows Azure AppFabric

Creating a Service Namespace

Create a Service Bus Namespace

Using the Service Bus to Interact with SharePoint

Create the Listener Service

Create the Listener Service Create the Calling Service

Accessing SharePoint via a WCF Service Proxy

Create an On-Premises Service

Create an On-Premises Service Create a WCF Service to Call the On-Premises Service

Calling an On-Premises Service via the Service Bus

Create a Test Windows Forms Application

Create a Test Windows Forms Application Create a Test Windows Phone 7 Application

Summary Additional References

9. Using Windows Azure WCF Services in SharePoint and Office

Custom WCF Services and Windows Azure

Create the WCF Service

Modeling Data by Using Business Connectivity Services

Create an External Content Type by Using Web Services and BCS

Exposing the External System Data in Office

Map an External Content Type to Word 2010

WCF Services in Windows Azure and Excel Services

Create a Dynamic Mortgage Amortization Application by Using Excel Services

Summary Additional References

10. Securing Your SharePoint and Windows Azure Solutions

Options for Securing Your Applications Configuring BCS Security

Create an Application ID

Create an Application ID Assess Permissions on the ECT

Configuring Shared Access Permissions for BLOB Storage

Create a Windows Forms Application to Display the Shared Access Permissions Signature

Using the Service Bus and Access Control Service Using Certificate-Based Authentication

Create and Upload an X.509 Client Certificate to Windows Azure

Using Claims-Based Authentication

Summary Additional References

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