Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure

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The Fix It sample application ....................................................................................................................................................12

Downloads: Code samples .........................................................................................................................................................17

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Hadoop and MapReduce ...........................................................................................................................................................83

Platform as a Service (PaaS) versus Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) .......................................................................86

Choosing a data storage option ..............................................................................................................................................89

Demo—Using SQL Database in Azure ..................................................................................................................................91

Entity Framework versus direct database access using ADO.NET ..............................................................................96

Summary ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 101

Summary ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 108

Creating a storage account..................................................................................................................................................... 111

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