Azure Skittles - Series
This skittles game is a very simple walkthrough of creating and debugging a Windows Azure application locally on a Windows 7 development machine with Visual Studio 2010.
We will have a WPF application that calls a WCF Web Role in Azure. The Web Role will enqueue a work request into an Azure Queue. The Worker Role will remove the work request from the Queue, process it and do something with it. The something I’ve drawn out is to place it into a SQL Azure database. I will do that part in a future post. I am going to go through the key steps. I’m not going to go into the nitty gritty or talk about best patterns & practices surrounding the application (this is skittles after all). This example was made on the RC of VS2K10, but also works on the RTM.
Read the entire series on John Alioto’s blog at