Building Windows Phone Applications with Azure
Learn how to use Azure storage services from a Windows Phone application
What you'll learn
Today's mobile applications greatly benefit from leveraging the cloud for back-end storage and services. Accessing the Windows Azure platform from Windows Phone applications makes for unlimited possibilities for developers. However, working with Azure from a device comes with challenges, such as dealing with HTTP-based communication and access control. The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone was created by people from Microsoft to simplify make mobile cloud scenarios for Windows Phone developers, through a set of services and tools that greatly facilitate performing common tasks involved in working with Azure tables, blobs and queues. This course, takes an in-depth and hands-on look at leveraging Azure storage services from a Windows Phone application, by exploring and building on top of the toolkit. Along the way, we introduce each of the Azure storage types, and we learn about the programming interfaces they expose and how to work with them directly and through the toolkit’s architecture.
Table of contents
- Intro 3m
- Windows Azure overview 3m
- Problems solved 3m
- Installing the toolkit 3m
- Tookit contents 4m
- Architecture 4m
- Demo: using the VS template 4m
- Demo: running the solution 6m
- Sample applications 3m
- Demo: running the Babelcam app 5m
- Babelcam architecture 3m
- Demo: Babelcam code walkthrough 3m
- Takeaways 1m
About the author
Yacine has been involved in the development of database-driven, n-tier web applications for over 10 years. Over time he has taken on various roles, including development, project management, offshore platform management and technical consulting. He has helped build a few solutions for Microsoft North Africa. Today Yacine writes and teaches courses covering C#, Silverlight and Windows Phone. He holds a Master of Science in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.S... more