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Windows Azure Mobile Services

Senthil Kumar

Microsoft MVP – Client Development

MobileOSGeek.com

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About Me

• Work at Trivium eSolutions , Bangalore

• Microsoft MVP – Client Development

• Speaker , Blogger , Software Engineer.

• BDOTNETTER( Bangalore .NET User Group )

• Windows Phone enthusiast

Blog : MobileOSGeek.com

Twitter : @isenthil

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Agenda

• What is Windows Azure Mobile Services ?

• Cloud + Mobility

• Azure Mobile Services Features

• Scenarios for Windows Azure Mobile Services

• How to Create Windows Azure Mobile Services ?

• Demo

• Q & A

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What is Windows Azure Mobile Services ?

Data

Notifications

Auth

Server Logic

Scale

Logging

Diagnostics

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Windows Phone

• Mobile OS from Microsoft

• Modern Style UI

• Content than Chrome

• Present SDK Version is Windows Phone SDK 8.0

• C# / VB.NET , XAML , C++

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Cloud

• Elastic Scale

• Near-infinite Capacity

• Consumption-based Pricing

• No Long-Term Commitments

• High Reliability

• Global Presence

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Mobility + Cloud = Perfect Pair

Mobility Cloud

Limited Compute Limitless Compute

Limited Storage Limitless Storage

Connect from Anywhere Services via the internet

(APIs)

Rapidly Growing Market Scale and Elasticity

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Scenarios

• Modern mobile apps• Reduces the friction associated with repeated and common tasks such

as user authentication, push notifications and structured storage.

• Rapid Development• Get your app up and running sooner when you use Mobile Services to

configure a straightforward and secure backend quickly within few minutes.

• Apps requiring structured data • Seamlessly connect to a Windows Azure SQL database for simple data

management and dynamically created tables. Easy to set and manage permissions.

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Demo

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Windows Azure Mobile Services

Windows Store

iOS

Android

Windows Phone 8

iOS

Android

HTML 5/JSSDKs

Scripts: TableScheduled

Custom API

REST API

User authentication

Facebook Twitter Micros

oft GoogleActive Directo

ry

Store data in the cloud

SQLTable

Storage

Blob Storag

e

Mongo DB

Push notifications

WNS and

MPNS

APNS GCM Notification Hubs

Source control

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Structured Storage

• Powered by SQL Database

• Same DB – Multiple Mobile Services

• Data management in• Windows Azure Portal• SQL Portal• SQL Management Studio• REST API

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Server Logic

• Automatic service REST API generated for storage

• Dynamic Schema on/off

• Ability to author server logic that intercepts CRUD operation pipeline

• Rich querying capability

• Node.js scripts

• Intercept CRUD requests to tables

• Fully customizable logic flow

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Node Modules

request

console

push.*

mssql

statusCodes azure

sendgrid

pusher

twilio

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REST API

Action HTTP Verb URL Suffix

Create POST /TodoItem

Read GET /TodoItem?$filter=id%3D42

Update PATCH /TodoItem/id

Delete DELETE /TodoItem/id

Data Operations and their REST Equivalents

Base REST API Endpoint URL

https://Mobileservice.azure-mobile.net/tables/*

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Push Notifications

1. Register for push notifications with GCM

2. Send your identifier to Mobile Service

3. Send push from server scripts

4. GCM delivers notification to device

Client

(1 )

(2)

(3)(4)

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Authorization & Authentication

• Authentication• Facebook , Twitter , Google , Windows Live

• Table level permissions for each CRUD operation

Everyone

Anyone with the Application Key

Only Authenticated Users

Only Scripts and Admins

• 400 / Unauthorized response if a call doesn’t pass

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Authorization

• Server script to match against your table (role-based access, specific user, etc.)

• Match against user.userId

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Scheduler

• Execute scripts on a schedule

• Execute scripts on demand

• Frequency and length of execution based off of service level

• Ideal for backend data processing

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Custom API

• Non-table based scripts

• Accessible from• Get• Post• Put• Patch• Delete

• Same permissions as tables

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Demo

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Diagnostics, Logging and Scale

Diagnostics

• API calls

• CPU Time

• Data Out

Logging

• console.error(…)

• console.log(…)

Scale - Compute

• Scale out instance count

• Scale up VM size

Scale - Storage

• Scale out mobile service tenant to dedicated SQL DB

• Scale up SQL DB

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Summary

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Resources

• Windows Azure Mobile Services

http://aka.ms/mobileservices

• SDK and Samples available on GitHub

https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services

• Inside Windows Azure Mobile Services

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Kirill-Gavrylyuk-and-Josh-Twist-Inside-Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services

• Windows Azure FREE Trial

http://bit.ly/MikeAzureTrial

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Q & A