Summary

After running the square service sample you should have learned the following:

• How to create a WCF service that can run inside Windows Azure nodes.
• How to create a database in SQL Server Azure and access it from applications.
• How to create a configuration file for the WCF service and deploy it to the head node.
• How to deploy a WCF service assembly to Windows Azure nodes.
• How to use a durable session to call the WCF service.
• How to diagnose your service and inspect the trace output of a service task.