Design Patterns Hosting Silverlight in the Cloud ASP.NET website hosted in Windows Azure XAP file hosted on the website, used in the browser Like an on-premises website, but has the flexibility of the Cloud Shared Storage Signature for WIndows Azure Storage Use the FromConfigurationSetting static method from the CloudStorageAccount class Create a SharedAccessPolicy to define the policy for how the key will be shared. Tips and Tricks Silverlight Use .NET Framework 3.5 in the Cloud ASP.NET MVC is recommended as the WebRole Make sure you Install Static Content support in IIS Smooth Streaming not supported yet on Windows Azure WCF For load-balanced considerations Load balanced endpoint flags Consider connections timeouts (1 minute) Asynchronous patterns works well PollingDuplexHttpBinding expects affinity In this case you’ll need to store the client state yourself Different port mappings in the cloud Quick: Patch port mappings into auto-generated service reference Other Windows Azure Platform Services SQL Azure SQL Database in the cloud Provisioned on-demand with high-availability No physical administration required Windows Azure Platform AppFabric Service Bus Connect Asynchronously between on-premise services and cloud services Firewall transversal with message rendezvous Access Control STS in the Cloud http://dev.windowsazure.com