A presentation on the powerful capabilities of Microsoft Azure Mobile Services, by Dmitri Artamonov of BlueMetal Architects.

1. Azure Mobile Services
Global Microsoft Azure Day
March 29, 2014
Presented by Dmitri Artamonov
@dartamon

2. Agenda
• Mobile Services – origin and purpose
• Client-side Features
• Server-side Features
• Demos
• Lab

4. Back-end in a box
• Android, iOS, Xamarin, WinRT, WP, HTML5/JS
• Easily create services
• Azure Portal set up
• Server scripting in JS

5. Mobile
Services
Data
iOSHTML5WinRT
API
Push Auth

6. Data Services
• Querying – REST verbs (including
PATCH, former MERGE)
• Filtering
• Transact-SQL
• Paging – Take/Skip

7. Dynamic Schema
• No need to pre-define the table schema
• INSERT to a table and columns created by
magic
• Disable function before going to production

8. Filtering
var query = todoItemTable.where({
complete: false
}).read().done(function (results) {
alert(JSON.stringify(results));
}, function (err) {
alert("Error: " + err);
});

9. Filtering – cont’d
• Request very similar to WCF Data Services:
GET /tables/todoitem?$filter=
(complete+eq+false) HTTP/1.1

10. Transact SQL
• mssql.query(sql, params, options)
mssql.query('select top 3 * from statusupdates’,{
success: function(results {
console.log(results);
},
error: function(err) {
console.log("error is: " + err);
} });

11. Push Notifications
• WNS, Apple Push or Google Cloud
• Windows Store client secret and package sid
• Apple Store app certificate
• Google API key

12. Authentication
• Live ID, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Azure ADS
• Need the private API keys
• Simple API call to log in as a user
• Can filter data queries based on the user -
authorization

13. Authentication - ADS
• Azure provide Active Directory as an
authentication service
• Need private keys to add to Mobile Services
• Demo?

14. Scripting and Promises
• Server-side scripting available for CRUD, sched
jobs and custom APIs
• Promises are async delegates using the then()
and done() functions
• Launch when a value is returned
• query.read().done( // do work );

15. Custom APIs
• Can create custom APIs with Javascript
• Custom APIs get invoked on REST verbs
• Javascript used to script the response

16. DEMO
Azure Mobile Services

17. Things we missed
• Notification Hubs
• Blob Storage
• Source Control
• Individual notifications
• Custom API periodic notifications
• Recovery/Error Handling
• Voice and SMS

18. Questions?

19. LAB
Azure Mobile Services

20. Lab links
• http://www.windowsazure.com/en-
us/develop/mobile/resources-html/
• “Get started with data”
• “Get started with authentication”
• “Use scripts to authorize users”