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2. After the testing is successful in the staging environment, navigate to the DASHBOARD
of service63xx and click
PRODUCTION
as shown in Figure 11.45.
3. After the project is published, click the link under SITE URL as shown in Figure
11.45. hen, enter the information to join the club. After clicking the
Submit
button,
you should have the Student Club web page as shown in Figure 11.46.
he Student Club web page is now available on the Internet. Information entered on the web
page will be stored in Windows Azure storage. Students can now enroll in the clubs. As shown
in Figure 11.46, after a new member is enrolled in a club, the contact information about the
other club members is displayed. So the newly enrolled student can contact the other members.
11.7 Summary
his chapter has discussed Windows Azure storage that provides highly scalable data storage. hree
storage services, Table storage, Blob storage, and Queue storage, have been examined in this chap-
ter. he storage services are used to store data generated by the web pages. hey also ofer cloud-
based data services such as data management, data transfer, and data querying to support web
applications. To illustrate the usage of these storage services, a web application, the Student Club
web page, was created. hree hands-on activities were used to illustrate how to use these storage
services. At the end of this chapter, the fourth hands-on activity was used to illustrate how to deploy
the web application to Windows Azure so that it is accessible to the students anywhere and anytime.
Review Questions
1. What are the three components of Windows Azure storage services?
2. What are the beneits of Windows Azure storage when compared to local storage?
3. How does Table storage work?
4. Describe the diference between the table of Table storage and the table of a relational database.
5. What is the advantage and disadvantage of the Table storage?
6. What is the entity and property of the Table storage?
7. How many properties can an entity have?
8. What are the three required properties?
9. Describe the Partition key.
10. Describe the Row key.
11. What do you do with the Blob storage?
12. Describe the block blob.
13. Describe the page blob.
14. What do you do with the Queue storage?
15. What is the default size of a message?
16. How long can messages be kept in the Queue storage?
17. What is the life cycle of a message?
18. Which class can be used to deine the properties of PartitionKey, RowKey, and TimeStamp?
19. How to connect the Blob storage service from an application?
20. What are the three components of the Queue storage?
