Building Windows Store Apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services

Pranav AinavoluThomson Reuters@a_pranav | http://pranavon.net

Windows Azure Mobile ServicesDataPush NotificationsAuthSchedulerDiagnostics & Scale

Agenda

What is Windows Azure Mobile Services?

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server LogicLogging & Diag

ScaleScheduler

Key ScenariosWindows Azure Mobile Services are ideal for:

Modern mobile appsWindows Store Apps, Windows Phone, iOS, Android

Common ScenariosReduces 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.

Getting Starteda backend for your mobile app in

minutes Demo

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

AppX.TodoitemAppY.Todoitem

Manage data inPortal, SQL PortalSQL Management StudioREST APICLI Tools

Server Logic

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

Server Logic

Supported Modules + Globalsmssqlrequestconsolepush.*tablesstatusCodes

mssql.query('select top 1 * from statusupdates', { success: function(results) { console.log(results);

} }

);

REST API to SQL type mappings

JSON Value T-SQL Type

Numeric values (integer, decimal, floating point)

Float

Boolean Bit

DateTime DateTimeOffset(3)

String Nvarchar(max)

Server Logicadding server logic on CRUD

operations Demo

Push Notification Lifecycle Overview 1. Request Channel URI

2. Register with your Cloud Service

3. Authenticate & Push Notification

Windows 8

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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 NotificationsDemo

Auth*Authenticate against Microsoft Account, Twitter, Facebook, GoogleTable level permissions for each CRUD operation

EveryoneAnyone with the Application KeyOnly Authenticated UsersOnly Scripts and Admins

More granular control with server side scriptsuser.level: {admin, authenticated, anonymous}

user.userId: id or undefined if not authenticated

Adding Authenticationhooking up Microsoft Account in

minutes Demo

SchedulerExecute scripts on a Schedule

by Minutes

by Hours

by Days

By Months

Execute scripts on DemandExamples Periodic purge of old data

Poll and aggregate from 3rd party (Twitter, RSS, others)

Process/resize images

Schedule sending push notifications for a given time of day

Demoscheduler Demo

Diagnostics, Logging and Scale

DiagnosticsAPI callsCPU TimeData Out

Loggingconsole.error(…)console.log(…)console.warn(…)

Scale - ComputeScale out instance countScale up VM size

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

Diagnostics, Logging, Scale

Demo

Summary

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server LogicLogging & Diag

ScaleScheduler

Namaste!