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Uploading Data to a Service Operation
When you upload data using HTTP, you typically include the data being uploaded in the body of the POST request. However, service operations in the Open Data Protocol (OData) work a bit differently, in...
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More on the New OData T4 Template: Service Operations
I’ve long missed support for calling service operations by using the proxy client code-generated by WCF Data Services, and I’ve described some workarounds in the post Calling Service Operations from...
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Azure App Services Mobile Apps and a new One Dev Minute Video for Azure...
Things have been quiet recently on my blog, but things have been far from quiet in the world of Azure Mobile Services. First off, in the new Azure Portal, Mobile Services is looking a bit different…...
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Check for expired Azure Mobile Services authentication tokens
When Microsoft Azure Mobile Services was first released, we only had basic guidance for authentication—basically just how to use the LoginAsync function. One of our customers had an app (let’s call it...
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Sign-in to Mobile Services using custom authentication from a Windows client
I spent some time the past few days improving the topic Add custom authentication to your app, which had a few issues—the main one being that we didn’t tell you how to consume the custom authentication...
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New Azure Mobile samples and tutorials
I’m excited to announce that we have some interesting new content and samples published to support Azure Mobile Services and Azure App Service Mobile Apps. Most of this new content was asked for by...
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Making Sense of Cordova Push Notification Options and APIs
Update: (2/6/2016) Updated Mobile Apps support now that a Cordova client is available. Updated: (10/27/15) Corrected my assessment of the new push plugin. You can read more about this plugin in my post...
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Updates to My Cordova Push Sample and new Cordova Push Plugin
UPDATE (11/3/2015): The updates to my Cordova push notification sample has been merged into the source fork of the Mobile Services samples GitHub repo. As folks may remember, I published a Cordova push...
View ArticleHow to clone a JavaScript backend Mobile Service
The Azure Mobile folks state very clearly that you shouldn’t use a production instance of Azure Mobile Services to test out new functionality, which makes sense. However, this brings up an interesting...
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Adding push notification tags from an Azure Mobile Apps client
When a mobile app registers for push notifications using an Azure App Service Mobile Apps backend, there are two default tags that can get added to the registration in Azure Notification Hubs: the...
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Use the Deploy to Azure Button for your Parse Migration
I was thrilled to have participated in assembling the recent guidance to help Parse-hosted app developers move their cloud code and data to Azure, including authoring the very popular post Azure...
View ArticleMicrosoft acquires Xamarin, plus Node.js backend GA, Cordova client beta,...
Lots of great stuff has been happening with Azure Mobile Apps and around Microsoft in the past month or so, particularly around new content and samples. Note that Mobile Apps samples are now beginning...
View ArticleAdding push notification tags from a Node.js backend
In my previous post, I showed how you can enable an Azure Mobile Apps client to add tags to a push notification registration using the installation ID available on the client. While fairly popular, my...
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New UWP quickstart project, Mobile Services transition begins, and other...
It’s been a while since I have been able to post about the goings on with Azure Mobile Apps and other related Azure mobile goodies. (I’ve also been working on docs for the new Azure Functions offering,...
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