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Let’s Geek Out!

Backend-as-a-ServiceAzure Mobile Services

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Agenda• MBaaS Introduction

• Lap around .NET backend

• Data access and offline support

• Q&A

MBaaS IntroductionAccording to Forrester, MBaaS (Mobile Back end as a service) offerings typically include:

1. Cloud-based storage for mobile data

2. Ability to automatic generate REST-based interfaces to read and write data

3. Internet optimized data access

4. User/security management tools

5. Usage analytics

security of data in the backend and on the apps

solve hard backend problems for developers Scale across clouds

managing users across identity spaces

flexibility to run custom business logic for your apps anywhere

Not just data backend BUT full-feature backend solution

Azure Mobile Services Features

DataBased on WebAPI

Various data stores supported:

• Azure Databases

• SQL Server on premise/IaaS

• Table Storage

• Mongo DB

Flexible data mapping via auto-mapper

AuthServer flows supported:

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Google

• Microsoft Account

Client flows supported:

• Azure Active Directory

PushUses Notification Hubs integration for high-scale cross-platform push

ToolingRuntime available on NuGet

In-browser test client

Visual Studio support:

• Local F5

• IntelliSense

• First-class deployment via WebDeploy and git

• Remote debugging

•Programming model (data, scheduled jobs)•Visual Studio tooling•Local and remote debugging•Publish

Lap around the .NET backend

source

Mobile Servicescompatible WebAPIcontrollers

git

WebDeploy

Commit hook: Build project

WebsiteXDRIVE\site\wwwroot

Mobile Servicescompatible WebAPIcontrollers

Web.config

C:\...\MobileServices

Mobile Servicesruntime

Web.config

website root

load

User database:EF code-first migrationsor custom migrations

App settingsinjected here

Data access and offline support

New data model (“greenfield”)

TableController

DataManagerDTO

DTO

Mobile ServiceDevice

SQL Database

BYOD

MongoDB

Table Storage

Existing data model (“brownfield”)

TableController

DataManagerDTO

DTO

Mobile ServiceDevice

Model

AutoMapper

SQL Azure/BYOD

ExistingTables

SystemPropertiesTable

Offline support

TableController(with optimistic

concurrency)

Mobile ServiceDevice

SQL Database

BYOD

MongoDB

Table Storage

SQLiteExplicit Push/Pull

Conflict resolution

Mobile Services .NET Backend

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