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Announcing Azure Mobile Service managed client SDK 1.3 alpha with Offline...
Today we’re pleased to announce pre-release version 1.3 of Azure Mobile Service managed client SDK that includes frequently requested feature of offline. We've heard from you that you want a fast and...
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Deep dive on the offline support in the managed client SDK
Last week we announced a new feature in the Azure Mobile Service SDK (managed code only for now): support for offline handling of data. While before all table operations required an active internet...
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Push Notifications Using Notification Hub and .NET Backend
When creating a Azure Mobile Service, a Notification Hub is automatically created as well enabling large scale push notifications to devices across any mobile platform (Android, iOS, Windows Store...
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Creating an Azure Mobile Services .NET backend from scratch
When learning a new feature I often like to understand the minimum pieces necessary to get it running. In the case of the .NET backend of azure mobile services, that would mean the smallest number...
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Azure Mobile Services Managed Client SDK 1.3 alpha2
We released an update to v1.3 of Managed Client SDK. It has following changes:Bug fix for issue related to synchronization of multiple items with version property on a table We replaced TableName...
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Creating MongoDB-backed tables in Azure Mobile Services with .NET backend
One of the advantages of the .NET backend for Azure Mobile Services is that it has out-of-the-box support for multiple data storages, not only SQL Azure. In the node.js runtime you could bypass the SQL...
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Autofac and Azure Mobile Services .NET Backend
When creating an Azure Mobile Service .NET backend we automatically set up Autofac to deal with all things dependency injection. If you are new to Azure Mobile Services then here are tutorials and...
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Logging with the .NET backend for Azure Mobile Services
On the node.js version of mobile services, logging was done mostly via the node’s console object. In any of the server scripts you could call console.[log|warn|error] and when that script was executed...
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Fixing errors when publishing different projects to a .NET backend
Quick post today. A few people in our team (and one in the forums) have hit an issue for which the current error logging doesn’t help too much, so write about this issue here. The problem is that when...
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Connecting to an external Database with Node.js backend in Azure Mobile Services
Azure Mobile Services has recently released the new Hybrid Connections feature that provides an easy and effective way to connect to on-premises resources from your mobile service, available for both...
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Offline preview support for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android
You may have seen our new preview feature for offline support for Azure Mobile Services for Windows Store and Windows Phone applications. Today, we're happy to announce preview support for Xamarin iOS...
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Using the Xamarin.Android preview of Mobile Services offline
Before we startThe steps below are for the Xamarin plugin for Visual Studio. If you're using Xamarin Studio instead, you should install the nuget addin for Xamarin and most of the instructions should...
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Using Xamarin.iOS preview of Mobile Services offline
Before we startThe steps below are for the Xamarin plugin for Visual Studio. If you're using Xamarin Studio instead, you should install the nuget addin for Xamarin and most of the instructions should...
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Mapping between Database Types and Client Types in the .NET Backend using...
Most of the samples showing how to use the .NET Backend have a single type that represents both the data stored in the database and the data that is exposed to the service callers. However, sometimes...
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Tables with Integer Keys and the .NET Backend
A question I've seen asked a few times on our internal email lists "how to expose tables that have integer keys in the database through the .NET Backend?". The key is to use AutoMapper (see Mapping...
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Retrieving data from 1:n relationship using .NET backend Azure Mobile Services
The .NET backend for Azure Mobile Services makes it easy to expose related tables via Entity Framework. However, related entities are not returned by default - for example, if you retrieve the list of...
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Bring Your Own Database with the .NET Backend
Azure Mobile Services helps provision a database for you when you create a new mobile service. But what if you want to connect to your own, existing SQL Azure database with the .NET backend? For...
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Real-time with ASP.NET SignalR and Azure Mobile .NET Backend
We just released an update for Azure Mobile Services .NET backend which enables you to use ASP.NET SignalR for real-time, bi-directional communications with your mobile applications. SignalR will use...
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Enabling paging (with total count) for tables with custom read scripts in the...
Quick post today. When we want to display a large number of rows from a table to the user, it’s often impractical to load all of the data at once. Loading it all may strain the device memory, or it may...
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Fresh Updates to Azure Mobile Services .NET
Today we are rolling out a new set of updates to Azure Mobile Services .NET including:Better SQL Azure database initializers,Using local config settings, andDetecting when the service is...
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