Add your cloud services to your application using Windows Azure Mobile Service

An excellent Windows store application is now connected. They use dynamic tiles, authenticate users through single sign-on, and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/6267.html "> Share data between devices and users." To get all of these significant benefits from connectivity, your application needs to use cloud services.

Building cloud services is not easy. Most cloud platforms provide common functionality to store data and execute code, but you have to write a lot of infrastructure code to integrate these features together. I think you are certainly ready to meet this challenge, but I can assure you that the backend infrastructure code is not your first choice. You need to focus on implementing your outstanding application philosophy.

To address this dilemma, we announced earlier this week a preview of the latest services in Windows Azure: mobile services. Now, I'll show you how to use the mobile service to add the cloud services you need to your application in a matter of minutes.

First, please register Windows Azure for a free trial. You will be free to use 10 mobile services. Let's use one of these services to build a simple task List application.

Create a new mobile service.

after you sign up, go to http://manage.windowsazure.com and log on using your Microsoft account. Create a new mobile service by clicking the +new button at the bottom of the navigation bar.

Select Move service and click Create. The following screen will appear:

Figure 1. Create a drawer in the admin portal.

in the New Mobile Service wizard, type the name of your application. The name will be part of the URL of your new service.

Figure 2. Create the Mobile Service wizard, the first screen.

When you create the Windows Azure Mobile service, we automatically associate it with the SQL database in Windows Azure. The Windows Azure Mobile Service backend will then provide built-in support to allow remote applications to safely store and retrieve data from, without having to write or deploy any custom server code. Type a name for the new database, and then enter your new SQL Server login name and password. If you want to reuse the database server for other mobile services, keep these credentials in mind. If you have registered for a 90-day free trial, you can use a 1GB database for free.

Figure 3. Create the Mobile Service wizard, the second screen.

Click the Check button to complete the process. In just a few seconds, you get mobile services that you can use to store data, send push notifications, and authenticate users ' backend. Let's try out the service in the application.