Windows Azure Mobile Services

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In this episode Nick Harris and Nate Totten demonstrate how you can build cross device platform applications using Windows Azure Mobile Services.  In the demo Nick builds both an Android and a Windows Store application that consumes the same set of data from your Mobile Service. Like Cloud…

Today's Hardware Friday project by Nick Harris. Hardware? Check. .Net Micro Framework? Check The new Windows Azure Mobile Services? Check Azure Web Site? Check Quick project to bring this all together for the fun of it? Check! Here's a summary that says it all... This is a little demo pulled…

In this video Nick Harris demonstrates how you can create your first Windows Phone application using Windows Azure Mobile Services.  The demo includes creating your first Mobile Service, downloading the quick start Windows Phone app, running the app then exploring how the…

With the release of Windows Phone 8, a few new developer API endpoints were made available that allow third-party applications to change the device lockscreen image. In this article, I am establishing the infrastructure and building a mobile application that provides the ability to choose from a…

Last week in Redmond I had a chat with coworker Josh Twist from our joint Azure Mobile team (owning Service Bus and Mobile Services) about the relevance of Mobile Services for organizations and businesses.  As the app stores grow, there's increasing competitive pressure on organizations of all…

The Windows Azure Mobile Services team are excited to announce a Mobile Services HTML Client SDK that will allow you to utilize Mobile Services from your websites, PhoneGap/Apache Cordova applications.  In this video Yavor Georgiev will demonstrate how you can get started with the Mobile…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:20] Android Developers Welcome to Azure Mobile Services (Joel Citizen) [01:57] Azure Mobile Services managed client – now also from NuGet (Carlos Figueira) [02:39] Do you understand how your app is being…

A quick tour of the Mobile Services HTTP API that demonstrates how Mobile Services' simplicity is more than just one layer deep. Watch this post to find out how to Create your own client for Mobile Services Consume a Mobile Services from another backend server using the Master key Create 'virtual…

In this video, Chris Risner announces the release of Android support for Windows Azure Mobile Services.  The SDK was built by Microsoft Open Technologies and the Mobile Services team completed portal integration and push notifications support.  To try Mobile Services for free, sign up…