All Indian Reprints of O'Reilly are printed in Grayscale. Learn the nuts and bolts of cloud computing with Windows Azure, Microsoft's new Internet services platform. Written by a key member of the product development team, this book shows you how to build, deploy, hostand manage applications using Windows Azure's programming model and essential storage services. Chapters in Programming Windows Azure are organized to reflect the platform's buffet of services. The book's first half focuses on how to write and host application code on Windows Azure, while the second half explains all of the options you have for storing and accessing data on the platform with high scalability and reliability. Lots of code samples and screenshots are available to help you along the way. Learn how to build applications using the Windows Azure toolset Discover how Windows Azure works under the hoodand learn the how and the why behind several features Choose to write application code in .NET or other languages such as C/C++, PHPor Ruby Understand the various options for managing your service Get up to speed on Azure's storage services, including blobs, queuesand tables Build a secure backup systemand learn about cloud application security, cryptographyand performance