Last week, I did a webinar where I showed quite a few scenarios on where Silverlight and Windows Azure can be a very powerful combination. The webinar can be seen on-demand for free via http://www.silverlightshow.net/shows/Recording-of-webinar-Switching-on-the-Cloud-for-Silverlight-by-Gill-Cleeren.aspx. In this webinar, I covered the following items:
1. Parts of Windows Azure
2. Why does a Silverlight developer need to care?
3. Developing for Windows Azure
o Required tools
o Emulators (“local cloud”)
o Azure Portal
4. Moving Silverlight applications to the cloud
o Database only
o WCF
o REST
o Entire Silverlight applications
o RIA Services
o Azure as intermediate layer for Twitter
5. Using blob storage
o Silverlight/Azure video player
6. Windows Phone and Azure
o Accessing services in the cloud
o WP7 Push Notification services
Also, I started writing some articles on this topic as well. The first one can be found here: http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Silverlight-in-the-Azure-cloud-Part-1.aspx.
The next and last part will be published soon.
Hope you like them and learn something from both of these resources.