Building Web Services with Microsoft Azure

Summary

This chapter provided an overview of the key layers of every distributed application, data access technologies, and the use of Entity Framework in a Web API application to query and manipulate the data that is stored in the Microsoft Azure SQL database cloud offering. Entity Framework is an efficient way of communicating with data sources both local and cloud-based. It provides a broad range of functionalities that can be used to query, add, update, or delete the entities using familiar syntax, LINQ queries, and a powerful functionality such as change tracking. Microsoft Azure SQL database is a cloud offering that can be used as both a test and production environment for database backend and fits almost any scenario, from a simple page ...