Contents tagged with Mobile Services
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Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Managed Client SDK with Offline Support
In this post, I will take a look at the new offline support provided by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services to the managed client SDK v1.3 alpha, which can be used for building Windows store apps with offline capabilities and syncing data between local database and Azure Mobile Service database. Microsoft Azure Mobile Services has been evolving over time with new useful features. On the last update, Azure Mobile Services started to support .NET for writing backend so that developers can now write backend logic either in C# or in JavaScript/Node.js. The latest addition to the evolving Microsoft Azure Mobile Services is the support for working with offline scenarios, which is an excellent feature, while we are building mobile apps. This lets the mobile apps to store data on the local storage in offline scenario and can sync-up the data to the Mobile Services storage when we are connected to the internet. The current version is a preview version available for managed clients. SQLite is used for persisting the offline data on the client apps.
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Microsoft Azure Updates -- April 2014
At the Build 2014 conference, Microsoft announces lot of exciting things which including updates on Microsoft Azure. Now Windows Azure has been rebranded as Microsoft Azure. This is good for Azure platform since Azure is a cross platform, which provides a polyglot Cloud platform for multiple operating systems.
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Windows Azure Mobile Services with .NET Backend
In this post, I will take a look at the new .NET support provided in Windows Azure Mobile Services for building mobile backend. Windows Azure Mobile Services was a technology based on Node.js, where we write backend code in JavaScript and we can leverage the Node.js ecosystem including NPM modules. But with the new release of Windows Azure Mobile Services, we can also build Mobile Services backend with .NET, which is a ASP.NET Web API based infrastructure. This is super exciting feature to .Net developers as developers can now work with Visual Studio 2013 for building Mobile Services backend with .NET where they can debug, test and run applications locally with their favourite IDE Visual Studio. For ASP.NET Web API developers, they can work with Mobile Services using their existing skills.
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Better NPM Support in Windows Azure Mobile Services with package.json
A while ago, I blogged about Git Source Control Integration in Windows Azure Mobile Services which lets the developers use Git for working with Mobile Services scripts. The source control integration lets you easily work as a team for working on Mobile Services scripts. This options lets Node.js developers more flexibility and control on the Windows Azure Mobile Services scripts, as you can install npm modules for your Windows Azure Mobile Services. But, this source control integration, had lack of support for package.json so that we had been inconvenient, while working with version controls. In fact, Node.js developers ignore node_modules from source controls and will be installed npm modules using npm install command which will identify dependencies from package.json and will automatically install npm modules.
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My Session on JavaScript, Meet Cloud : Node.js on Windows Azure
I did a presentation titled “JavaScript, Meet Cloud: Node.js on Windows Azure” at the Kerala JavaScript user group. The goal of the session, was to demonstrate the capabilities of JavaScript, as a programming language on the Cloud, for building server-side applications and Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS). In he session, I had demonstrated Windows Azure as a Cloud platform for building Node.js apps and Mobile backend services.
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Cloud MBaaS : The Next Big Thing in Enterprise Mobility
In this blog post, I will take a look at Cloud Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) and how we can leverage Cloud based Mobile Backend as a Service for building enterprise mobile apps. Today, mobile apps are incredibly significant in both consumer and enterprise space and the demand for the mobile apps is unbelievably increasing in day to day business. An enterprise can’t survive in business without a proper mobility strategy. A better mobility strategy and faster delivery of your mobile apps will give you an extra mileage for your business and IT strategy. So organizations and mobile developers are looking for different strategy for meeting this demand and adopting different development strategy for their mobile apps. Some developers are adopting hybrid mobile app development platforms, for delivering their products for multiple platforms, for fast time-to-market. Others are adopting a Mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) such as Kony for their enterprise mobile apps for fast time-to-market and better business integration.
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Git Source Control Integration with Windows Azure Mobile Services
In this blog post, I will take a look at Git source control integration provided by Windows Azure Mobile Services. Windows Azure Mobile Services is great framework for mobile backend development on the Windows Azure platform, which provides a Node.js based programming model for writing server-side scripts. You can write the mobile services scripts in browser window provided by Windows Azure developer portal. Windows Azure Mobile Services also provides you to setup source control with Git, which lets you clone the Git repository for Mobile Services scripts, in your local machine where you can work on the Mobile Services scripts in your favourite IDE or text editor and later you can commit and push the source code back to Windows Azure production environment. The source control integration lets you easily work as a team for working on Mobile Services scripts.