1. Microsoft Azure Introduction ISYS 512

2. Microsoft Azure http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ux/develop/dd163896.aspx Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft- managed datacenters. It provides both PaaS and IaaS services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks.

3. Working with Microsoft Azure Local development environment Visual Studio Azure SDK for Visual Studio. Download Azure SDK for.Net from this website: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/ Azure Management Portal Visual Studio Online (a paid service) Azure components

4. The Components of Azure http://azure.microsoft.com/en- us/documentation/articles/fundamentals-introduction-to-azure/ 1. Compute: Virtual machine Website cloud service

5. The Components of Azure 2. Data Management: Azure SQL Database Storage Tables: Azure Tables provides a flat NoSQL way to store data. Azure Blobs

6. The Components of Azure 3. Mobile Services: store data in the cloud authenticate users send push notifications

7. The Components of Azure 4. Big Data: HDInsight (Hadoop) High-Performance Computing (Big Compute) 5. Others

8. Creating an Azure Account 1. Sign up for a Microsoft account. This is a regular Microsoft account and you can use any of your email as user name. http://blog.onedrive.com/ 2. Visit this page: http://www.microsoftazurepass.com/http://www.microsoftazurepass.com/ 3. Select the country and enter your code. 4. Click Submit. This will open a page with a Sign In button. 5. Click Sign In button and sign in with your Microsoft account 6. Complete some requested info to complete the registration.

9. Azure Management Portal Demo Azure Website: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ Account Portal

10. Creating a New Storage Account Click Storage, then click New Assign a name Choose a server location: West USA

11. Creating a SQL Server Database ( You need to create a SQL server username and password) Click SQL Databases, then click New Assign a database name Choose a server Click Manage to open the database: Login to the SQL Server with user name and password Select Design to define the tables Click Save to save the design Enter data: Click New Query Enter an SQL Insert Into statement Click Run

12. Visual Studio 2013 Tools for Azure Server Explorer Windows Azure Connecting to Azure: Right Click Windows Azure, then select Connect to Windows Azure Windows Azure: Storage SQL Databases SQL Server Object Explorer Right Click SQL Server and select Add SQL Server Select the server Login with user name and password

13. Example: Add a Foreign Key Constraint to CID Field of the Orders table Select Orders table, then right click and select View Designer Add the foreign key constraint to the CID field: references dbo.customer (CID)

14. Demo: Creating a website with a page to show customer records with a dataGrid view. New Project Visual C#/ Web/ASP.Net Web Application Select a template: Empty Check: Web Forms, and check Create remote resources Project/Add New Item to add a web form. Open SQL Server Explorer and Add Server Add a connection using server Explorer Drag and Drop table from the Connection to the webform Test run Project/Publish