Windows Phone 8 and Azure Mobile Services

David IsbitskiTechnical Evangelist, Microsofthttp://blogs.msdn.com/davedev@TheDaveDev

Building Windows Phone Apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services

Now is the time to write your game. Enjoy the first to market advantage!

twitter.com/thedavedev | david.isbitski@microsoft.com

http://bit.ly/genapp8

Windows Azure Mobile ServicesDataPush NotificationsAuthDiagnostics & Scale

Agenda

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server Logic

Scale

Logging

Diagnostics

What is Windows Azure Mobile Services?

Windows Azure Mobile Services are ideal for:

Modern mobile appsReduces the friction associated with repeating common tasks such as user authentication, push notifications, and structured storage

Rapid DevelopmentTime is money. Get your app up and running sooner when you use Mobile Services to configure a straightforward and secure backend in less than five minutes.

Apps requiring structured data Seamlessly connect to a Windows Azure SQL database for simple data management and dynamically created tables. Easy to set and manage permissions.

Key Scenarios

a backend for your mobile apps in minutes

demoGetting Started

Structured StorageStructured Storage with SQL DatabaseIf using single database apps are partitioned by schema

AppX.TodoitemAppY.Todoitem

Manage data inPortalSQL PortalSQL Management StudioREST API…

Server Logic

Automatic service REST API generated for storageDynamic Schema on/offAbility to author server logic that intercepts CRUD operation pipelineRich querying capability

REST API to SQL type mappings

JSON Value T-SQL TypeNumeric values (integer, decimal, floating point)

Float(53)

Boolean BitDateTime DateTimeOffset(3)String Nvarchar(max)

adding server logic on CRUD operations

demoServer Logic

1. Request Channel URI

2. Register with your Cloud Service

3. Authenticate & Push Notification

Windows 8

(1)

(2)

(3)

(3)

Push Notification Overview

Auth*

Authenticate against Windows LiveTable level permissions for each CRUD operation

EveryoneAnyone with the Application KeyOnly Authenticated UsersOnly Scripts and Admins

More granular control with server side scripts

hooking up to Twitter or Facebook in minutes

demoAdding Authentication

Push Notifications

Integrates with WNS to provide Toast, Tile, Badge and Raw notificationsPortal captures your WNS client secret and package SIDpush.wns.* provides:

clean easy object model to compose notifications

Performs auth against WNS for you

push notification lifecycle made easy

demoPush Notifications

Diagnostics, Logging and Scale

DiagnosticsAPI callsCPU TimeData Out

Loggingconsole.error(…)console.log(…)

Scale - ComputeScale out instance countScale up VM size

Scale - StorageScale out mobile service tenant to dedicated SQL DBScale up SQL DB

demo

Diagnostics, Logging, Scale

Free Offer at Preview

Running on shared instances

10 Mobile Services 1GB SQL

Database

Must be deployed to US-East DC

Data transfer is per subscription, not per mobile service

No SLA during Preview. Only small instances available. Can upgrade to a reserved instance at 33% discount from normal Pay-As-You-Go rates during Preview.

From

WA

Free Tria

lUnlimited ingress

165MB daily egress

Pricingpricing & licensing $ service level

agreements

PreviewNo availability SLA

General Availability99.9%

Shared Instance (multitenant environment)

Small instance is the only size available; multiple may be purchased

Free at public preview launch

Up to 10 applications

Reserved Instance (private VM)

Small instance is the only size available; multiple may be purchased

Charge for Preview will be at the same reduced rate as Web Sites

Up to 10 applications

Summary

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server Logic

Scale

Logging

Diagnostics

Resources• http://www.WindowsAzure.com/mobile

David IsbitskiTechnical Evangelist, Microsofthttp://blogs.msdn.com/davedev@TheDaveDev

Building Windows Phone Apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services

Now is the time to write your game. Enjoy the first to market advantage!

twitter.com/thedavedev | david.isbitski@microsoft.com

http://bit.ly/genapp8

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