With the upcoming release of Windows 8 and new interesting technologies like WinRT and Metro, it is time to check out the possibilities these bring in combination with Windows Azure. We will work through an application using Windows Azure as a backend for data and processing. Somewhere in the cloud, a worker will be reading and processing information and storing it on storage. Once new information is available and stored, the notification services will inform the clients about it. Using a nicely designed Metro client, this data will be visualized in a touch enabled app running on a Windows 8 tablet.

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22. 1. Request Channel URI
2. Register with your Cloud Service
3. Authenticate & Push Notification

23. What a service needs to support How do I do that with Windows
Azure? Channel URI
Request
Secure, web based API for channel URI
registration. Windows Azure ComputeService
Register with your Cloud
Persistent storage of channel URI. Authenticate & Push Notification
• Web Role
• Full IIS support
Storage for tile and toast images. • WCF REST and ASP.NET MVC
Windows Azure Storage
• Table Storage
• Blob Storage

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http://www.asp.net/mvc/ http://www.microsoft.com
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mvc4 /visualstudio/11/en-us
8/release-preview