Demystifying The Code : Screencast

Screencast Published - Building an Azure App Part I: Setup and Hello World

rob.bagby — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:23:15 GMT

I have released the 1st screencast of a multi-part series where I will be building an Azure application from the ground up. The application will be a shopping cart application with a Silverlight Front End. The goal of this application is to illustrate various features of Windows Azure and in coming weeks, portions of .NET Services. The first few posts will concentrate on Windows Azure, our Cloud Operating System. I will illustrate things like the developer fabric, hosting various pieces of an application in the cloud (web pages, services, Silverlight components), as well as working with Azure Table Storage. From there, we will keep going, adding and updating pieces of the application.
In this screencast (Part I), I will illustrate how to get your development environment, as well as a Windows Azure Hosted Services Project set up. He will then build a simple "Hello, World" application, run and debug it locally and finally deploy it to the cloud.
You can also read my Blog Post for great documentation on how to get your environment set up!

Building An Azure Application From The Ground Up

rob.bagby — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:22:15 GMT

The post for the index of Building an Azure Application from the ground up has been moved to my new blog at www.robbagby.com.

Screencast published - Creating a HI-REST WCF Service that exposes Insert and Update via PUT

rob.bagby — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:27:01 GMT

I just published a 27 minute screencast on Channel9 on creating a HI-REST PUT Service that exposes Insert and Update. As you know, RESTful services expose more than just GET. Many times, we also have to expose the capability to insert, update and delete. There are many differing opinions on how inserts, updates and deletes should be modeled in a "RESTful" architecture. This screencast illustrates one such model and further shows how to implement this model with WCF 3.5. I will show you how to implement a HI-REST service utilizing PUT for inserts and updates. Future deCasts will illustrate other models.

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Creating an AJAX-Friendly WCF Service Screencast Published

rob.bagby — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:34:07 GMT

I just published a 24 minute screencast on Channel9 on creating an AJAX-Friendly WCF Service. You may be asking yourself what 'AJAX-Friendly' means. To me (and to WCF), it means exposing the ability to call a WCF service from an AJAX client in just a few lines of code. Prior to WCF 3.5, this was not possible. With WCF 3.5 came our Web-Friendly binding: webHttpBinding. That binding has two endpoint behaviors. One of the endpoint behaviors is called enableWebScript and that is what I refer to as our 'AJAX-Friendly' profile. To put it simply, this endpoint behavior provides the ability to generate a client proxy script that you can use to call your service. In this screencast, I will illustrate to you how to take advantage of this binding and endpoint behavior.

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