Phluffyfotos.com Sample Application

What is PhluffyFotos.com?

PhluffyFotos is a Web 2.0 Picture Gallery Service where users can upload their pictures from the web or mobile device. This sample is designed to demonstrate the core features of Windows Azure. Users can upload, tag, and share photos in this sample. A Silverlight Album viewer is also included (http://www.codeplex.com/SlideShow2 to make browsing photos easy.

The demo utilizes several technologies including: ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, and Windows Azure tables, blobs, and queues. In this sample, you will see how to pull together both web and worker roles to build cloud applications.

Getting Started

To build and run the PhluffyFotos sample on Windows Vista or Windows 7 you will need to install the following components on your machine:

Before you continue
In order to run the PhluffyFotos sample application live in the cloud, you must have a CTP account for Windows Azure. Those can be obtained from http://www.microsoft.com/azure/register.mspx. However, the sample application will run just fine using the local developer fabric.

• Visual Studio 2008 with SP1
• Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128752
• Microsoft ASP.NET MVC
• Windows PowerShell

Included in the sample is a provisioning script (Provision.cmd) that should be run to provision queues, tables, and role authorization.

Quick Links

View the sample on-line at http://www.phluffyfotos.com
We will periodically remove any pictures uploaded through the live running instance at http://www.phluffyfotos.com, so please do not use it as a primary picture store.