New Love for WCF Data Services: Push Notifications

I have just published a new end-to-end sample that demonstrates how to use Windows Azure Notification Hubs to add push notification functionality to the classic Northwind OData service.

I also blogged about this as a guest blogger on the Silver Lining blog.

Sample: Send Push Notifications from an OData Service by Using Notification Hubs

Windows Azure Notification Hubs is a cloud-based service that enables you to send notifications to mobile device apps running on all major device platforms. This sample demonstrates how to use Notification Hubs to send notifications from an OData service to a Windows Store app.

Blog Post: Send Push Notifications from an OData Service using Windows Azure Notification Hubs

Windows Azure Notification Hubs is a Windows Azure service that makes it easier to send notifications to mobile apps running on all major device platforms from a single backend service, be it Mobile Services or any OData service. In this article, I focus adding push notifications to a OData service, and in particular to a WCF Data Services project.

Cheers,

Glenn Gailey