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Coding and writing about OData and now Windows Azure Mobile Services...
New UWP quickstart project, Mobile Services transition begins, and other Azure Mobile news
It’s been a while since I have been able to post about the goings on with Azure Mobile Apps and...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 05/18/2016
Adding push notification tags from the client--Node.js backend version
In my previous post, I showed how you can enable an Azure Mobile Apps client to add tags to a push...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 04/14/2016
Microsoft acquires Xamarin, plus Node.js backend GA, Cordova client beta, file upload, and more Mobile Apps goodness…
Lots of great stuff has been happening with Azure Mobile Apps and around Microsoft in the past month...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2016
Use the Deploy to Azure Button for your Parse Migration
I was thrilled to have participated in assembling the recent guidance to help Parse-hosted app...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 02/01/2016
Adding push notification tags from an Azure Mobile Apps client
When a mobile app registers for push notifications using an Azure App Service Mobile Apps backend,...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 01/22/2016
How to clone a JavaScript backend Mobile Service
The Azure Mobile folks state very clearly that you shouldn’t use a production instance of Azure...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 12/15/2015
New Azure Mobile samples and tutorials
I’m excited to announce that we have some interesting new content and samples published to support...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 07/15/2015
Sign-in to Mobile Services using custom authentication from a Windows client
UPDATE: I have published a Visual Studio solution that is a .NET backend mobile service with custom...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 05/06/2015
Azure App Services Mobile Apps and a new One Dev Minute Video for Azure Mobile Services
Things have been quiet recently on my blog, but things have been far from quiet in the world of...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 03/31/2015
Azure Mobile Services Quickstart for Visual Studio Cordova
Since nearly the GA of the service, Mobile Services has had support for a PhoneGap quickstart app...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 01/26/2015
Use Azure to Send Push Notifications to Visual Studio Cordova Apps
Greetings to all…I hope that all of you had as successful an end to 2014 as I did. It’s now 2015,...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 01/05/2015
Epic Saga Final Chapter: Success!! or How to Upload Images to Azure From a Cordova App
This post is the eights post in the series: Uploading Images from PhoneGap/Cordova to Azure Storage...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 12/15/2014
Using the PhoneGap Developer App with a Cordova for Visual Studio Project
I got an excellent question from a reader on my previous post (The Multi-Device Hybrid Apps...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 12/11/2014
Epic Saga Chapter 7: Wherein I Break Down and Go Hunting for an Android Device that Runs KitKat
This post is the seventh post in the series: Uploading Images from PhoneGap/Cordova to Azure Storage...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 11/20/2014
Epic Saga Chapter 6: Wherein I learn to Remotely Build and Run on the iOS Simulator But Am Ultimately Disappointed
This post is the sixth post in the series: Uploading Images from PhoneGap/Cordova to Azure Storage...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 11/06/2014
Epic Saga Chapter 4: Wherein I Discover Ripple and the Multi-Device Hybrid Apps Extension for Visual Studio
This post is the fourth post in the series: Uploading Images from PhoneGap/Cordova to Azure Storage...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2014
Epic Saga Chapter 3: Wherein I Try to Use Eclipse and the Android Emulator to Test My Cordova App
This (shorter-then-usual) post is the third post in the series: Uploading Images from...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 10/29/2014
Epic Saga Chapter 2: Wherein I try to use an XMLHttpRequest in a Cordova app on my Windows Phone
This post is the second post in the series: Uploading Images from PhoneGap/Cordova to Azure Storage...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 10/28/2014
Epic Saga: Uploading Images from PhoneGap/Cordova to Azure Storage using Mobile Services
- or - If You Want to Create a Cordova App and All You Have is a Windows Phone Device…Good...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 10/27/2014
The Multi-Device Hybrid Apps extension for Visual Studio Kinda Rocks
NOTE: The CTP3 of this Visual Studio extension (now called Apache Cordova Tools for Visual Studio)...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 10/24/2014
Send push notifications to authenticated PhoneGap users
Let me start out by letting folks know that feedback from my blog post Push Notifications to...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 10/15/2014
Exposing a Stored Procedure in a .NET Backend Mobile Service
By default, Azure Mobile Services uses an Azure SQL Database for data storage. We have a new topic...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2014
Cool New Mobile Services Content for PhoneGap and .NET Backend
I wanted to do a quick post to highlight some cool new Azure Mobile Services and Azure Notification...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2014
Mobile Services .NET Backend: Part 1—Creating the Service and Defining the REST API
Now that support for .NET backend (Web API) in Azure Mobile Services is well on its way, it’s time...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 05/05/2014
OData v4 Ratified and Where WCF Data Services is Headed
I’m a little behind on the OData news front (I blame this on a mountain of //build work I needed to...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 04/07/2014
Mobile Services .NET Backend: Initializers and Model Updates
Note: the default initializers have changed somewhat now that .NET backend has reached the "general...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 03/28/2014
Try Out the New Mobile Services .NET Backend Totally for Free
Hopefully, by now everyone is aware that you can try out Mobile Services in Windows Azure free for...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 03/23/2014
Problem Calling POST Service Operations Using the WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Client for Windows Store apps
For quite a while I have been sending POST requests to invoke service operations, as I detailed in...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 12/16/2013
Using the OData Async Extension Method for LoadAsync
I posted a few months back about Phani’s OData async extension methods that convert the begin/end...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 12/09/2013
Time to get the WCF Data Services 5.6.0 RTM Tools
Folks who have recently tried to download and install the OData Client Tools for Windows Store apps...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2013
Revisited: The Story of Pubs, Northwind, and AdventureWorks
Matt Stroshane has recently taken down his Phone to Cloud blog (sad to see that), but he asked me to...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 09/09/2013
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...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 08/26/2013
Wrong Thread Exception Using Task-Based Extension Methods
I’ve been working on a new Windows Store sample that consumes an OData feed of Northwind data...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 08/12/2013
Windows Azure Posters for Mobile Services and Mobile Gaming
There are several cool new “infographic”-style posters out for Windows Azure—I was...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 07/12/2013
Great new samples and tutorials for Mobile Services integration scenarios
I just wanted to let everyone know that Paolo Salvatori, one of the rock stars on the Customer...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 07/11/2013
Extending the OData Async Extensions to DataServiceCollection Methods
UPDATED 8/5/2013: Turns out that I didn't have my DataServiceCollection<T> methods defined...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 03/04/2013
New Samples and Videos Featured for Mobile Services
I just wanted to take a few minutes to share some exciting new videos and samples-related activity...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 01/24/2013
Live Connect Single Sign-On from Windows Phone 8 for Mobile Services
I’m super excited that today Microsoft has released an updated version of the Live SDK for...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 11/16/2012
Mobile Services: request new features, //build// demos, and a new poster
Some interesting things today for fans of Windows Azure Mobile Services, Microsoft’s...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2012
New Mobile Services Data Tutorials for iOS on the Silver Lining blog
Just a quick post today to call out some excellent posts by my compadre Ralph Squillace on using...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 11/01/2012
Windows Phone 8 is Finally Here!
This is a great day for Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, with the official launch of Windows...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2012
Windows Azure Mobile Services—Now We Are Getting Somewhere
The Windows Azure team just enabled a whole set of new features and functionalities for the...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 10/16/2012
A Few New OData Things of Interest
There are a couple of interesting news items re. OData and WCF Data Services: WCF Data Services...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 10/01/2012
Visual Basic Version of the Get started with data in Mobile Services Tutorial
Folks have been asking for a Visual Basic version of the Windows Azure Mobile Services quickstart...
Author: Glenn Gailey [MSFT] Date: 09/23/2012