Anith Gopal

  This is a guest post by Pankaj Arora, Senior Manager in the Global Strategic Initiatives team, Microsoft IT. See his prior post about the new book , “To the Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise.” The first step to cloud adoption is to explore and understand cloud computing – its service delivery models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), environment models (public, private, etc.), and technology building blocks.

The MIX Conference – billed by Microsoft as its web conference (and now with phone!) and me as “Microsoft’s most right-brained major conference” – takes place in Las Vegas next week! It’s the conference where developers, designers, UX/UI pros and businesspeople get together to talk about “consumer”-focused applications and sites for the web and phone. A little aside: I put “consumer” in quotes because I hate the term but don’t have a reasonable substitute for it.

After creating my WCF service and hosting it on Azure, it’s time to take care of the last of my requirements: consuming it in a Silverlight control. Before I go into the Silverlight code, let me point out that I had to make a couple of changes to my Windows Azure service: one regards Silverlight consumption, the other one regarding hosting the service in a reachable manner.