Lynda.com – David Isbitski – Up and Running with Azure Mobile Services[1 DVD (ISO)]

Lynda.com – David Isbitski – Up and Running with Azure Mobile Services[1 DVD (ISO)]
English | Size: 523.10 MB
Category:Computer Science

Windows Azure Mobile Services accelerate your mobile app development by offering easy-to-use, scalable backend services. Your websites and mobile apps can leverage its structured storage, user authentication, and push notifications in familiar programming languages. In this course, David Isbitski uses Azure Mobile Services to build a new service and connect it to an existing Windows Store game built in HTML and JavaScript. Learn to add gamer profiles with the identity service, pull down basic Facebook profile information for gamers, add high score tables to the database, and create an API that will allow anyone on the web to retrieve and display the current highest score. Dive in now and get started setting up your account, using the developer tools, and diagnosing and scaling your services across the web.

Topics include:

Setting up Visual Studio, Node.js, and the Azure Mobile Services SDK
Creating a new Azure Mobile Service instance
Connecting an app to a new service
Creating and managing storage tables
Setting up Facebook authorization
Storing app data in the cloud
Sending out push notifications
Setting up an API service
Adding custom logging