Session: 5 - Windows Phone 8 and Azure Mobile Services Event: Washington DC Windows Phone 8 Jumpstart Date: March 2013

1. Building Windows Phone
Apps with Windows Azure
Mobile Services
David Isbitski
Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/davedev
@TheDaveDev

5. Windows Azure Mobile Services are ideal for:

7. Structured Storage with SQL Database
If using single database apps are partitioned by schema
AppX.Todoitem
AppY.Todoitem
Manage data in
Portal
SQL Portal
SQL Management Studio
REST API…

8. Automatic service REST API generated for storage
Dynamic Schema on/off
Ability to author server logic that intercepts CRUD
operation pipeline
Rich querying capability

9. JSON Value T-SQL Type
Numeric values Float(53)
(integer, decimal, floating
point)
Boolean Bit
DateTime DateTimeOffset(3)
String Nvarchar(max)

11. Windows 8

12. Authenticate against Windows Live
Table level permissions for each CRUD operation
Everyone
Anyone with the Application Key
Only Authenticated Users
Only Scripts and Admins
More granular control with server side scripts

14. Integrates with WNS to provide Toast, Tile, Badge and
Raw notifications
Portal captures your WNS client secret and package SID
push.wns.* provides:
clean easy object model to compose notifications
Performs auth against WNS for you

16. Diagnostics Scale - Compute
API calls Scale out instance count
CPU Time Scale up VM size
Data Out
Scale - Storage
Logging Scale out mobile service tenant to
console.error(…) dedicated SQL DB
console.log(…) Scale up SQL DB

18. 10 Mobile
Services 1GB SQL
From WA Free Trial
Database
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.

19. Shared Instance Reserved Instance Preview
(multitenant environment) (private VM) No availability SLA
Small instance is the only Small instance is the only
size available; multiple may size available; multiple may General Availability
be purchased be purchased 99.9%
Free at public preview Charge for Preview will be
launch at the same reduced rate as
Web Sites
Up to 10 applications
Up to 10 applications

21. http://www.WindowsAzure.com/mobile

22. Building Windows Phone
Apps with Windows Azure
Mobile Services
David Isbitski
Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/davedev
@TheDaveDev