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Building a 3-Tier App with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services, and Azure Table Storage

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11 Jul 2009CDDL19 min read 166K   1.7K   148  
This article presents the techniques and caveats of building a 3-tire Azure hosted application using Silverlight 3 (presentation tier), .NET RIA services (business logic and data access), and Windows Azure Table (data storage).
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.SessionState;
using System.Web.DomainServices;
using Hanray.Azurelight.Model;
using Hanray.Azurelight.Service;
using Microsoft.Azure.StorageClient;

namespace Hanray.Azurelight
{
	public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication
	{
		ALTSDomainServiceFactory svcFactory = null; 
		protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{
		}

		protected void Session_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{
		}

		protected void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{
			if (null == svcFactory)
			{
				svcFactory = new ALTSDomainServiceFactory();
				DomainService.Factory = svcFactory;

				//needs programmatically create Azure table when it's not there
				//TableStorage.CreateTablesFromModel(typeof(SurveyDataContext));
			}
		}

		protected void Application_AuthenticateRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{

		}

		protected void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{

		}

		protected void Session_End(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{

		}

		protected void Application_End(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{

		}
	}

	public class ALTSDomainServiceFactory : IDomainServiceFactory
	{

		public DomainService CreateDomainService(Type domainServiceType, DomainServiceContext context)
		{
			if (domainServiceType == typeof(SurveyService))
			{
				SurveyService riaSvc = new SurveyService();
				riaSvc.Initialize(context);

				return riaSvc;
			}

			return null;
		}

		public void ReleaseDomainService(DomainService domainService)
		{
		}
	}

}

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