Facebook Azure Toolkit

Welcome to the Facebook Azure Toolit. This toolkit was built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft to give the community a good starter kit for getting Facebook apps up and running in Windows Azure. Facebook apps hosted in Azure provide a flexible and scalable cloud computing platform for the smallest and largest of Facebook applications. Whether you have millions of users or just a few thousand, the Facebook Azure Toolit helps you to build your app correctly so that if your app is virally successful, you won't have to architect it again. You will just need to increase the number of instances you are using, then you are done scaling. :)

What does this Toolit include?

  • Facebook Developers Toolkit Link
  • Ninject 2.0 for Dependency Injection Link
  • Asp.Net MVC 2 Link
  • Windows Azure Software Development Kit (February 2010) Link
  • Azure Toolkit - Simplified library for accessing Message Queues, Table Storage and Sql Server
  • Automated build scripts for one-click deployment from TFS 2010 to Azure

How do I get started?

  • Set up a facebook developers account Link
  • Set up an iframe facebook application Link
  • Set up an Azure Account Link
  • Set up a database in Sql Azure Link
  • Set up a storage account in Azure for Table Storage, Message Queues and Blob Storage

Getting Setup and Running Locally

  • Create local database using the dbscript.sql found in the AzureFacebook.Data.Sql project
  • Change connection strings in the app.config in AzureFacebook.WorkerRole.csproj and AzureFacebook.Data.Sql.csproj
  • Set up facebook app and have callback url point to http://localhost:81/ 127.0.0.1 will not be accepted in facebook.
  • Open up the web.config and modify the following keys in the appSettings to match what is in your facebook app: APIKey, Secret, Callback, Suffix, and AppUrl

Setting up Deployment in TFS 2010

  • Add a server ssl certificate to your account in Azure Link
  • Check azure cmdlets and documentation of powershell scripts Link
  • Modify the TFSBuild.proj file to include your path for where your builds are released on your server

Last edited Mar 12, 2010 at 6:05 AM by jimzim, version 14