With my first article (here) with SilverlightShow (@silverlightshow) being well-accepted, I was encouraged to write some more. A second article was just published, which dabbled around the broad subject of Windows Phone applications leveraging Azure. It can be seen as a natural continuation of the first; but in this article, we talk about using WCF [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Azure’
Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data
Posted: September 22, 2011 in ArticlesTags: articles, Azure, SilverlightShow, WCF, WPDev
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Connecting Azure and Windows Phone through OData
Posted: September 6, 2011 in ArticlesTags: Azure, OData, SilverlightShow, WPDev
So, SilverlightShow (@silverlightshow) is a wonderful resource for daily Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 news, exclusive articles, tutorials, videos and training. I would encourage anybody interested in Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone & other related technologies to check out the SilverlightShow content @ http://silverlightshow.net. Recently, I decided to author some content for the SilverlightShow team using [...]
Windows Azure & Windows Phone Firestarter Event!
Posted: August 18, 2011 in Azure Goodness, Speaking, Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: Azure, notifications, OData, speaking, WCF, WPDev
It is no surprise that Azure as a cloud computing infrastructure plays very nicely with mobile solutions, especially Windows Phone 7. So, when Michael Collier (@MichaelCollier) came up with the idea of doing a full-day event showcasing how the two technologies/platforms may work together, I was all for it! So was put together this event [...]
Updating OData data source from WP7 .. Part 2
Posted: July 24, 2011 in Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: Azure, OData, WP7Dev
This post is a continuation of the first part (here) on Updating the underlying data behind an OData service. So, we continue from where we left off. We have a SQL Azure table called “Team” which has its data exposed as an OData service. This can obviously be read easily by various clients; but what [...]
Updating OData data source from WP7 .. Part 1
Posted: July 24, 2011 in Azure Goodness, Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: Azure, OData, WCF, WP7Dev
This will be a longish post .. you have been warned I think OData is rather cool .. head over (here) to learn more, if you haven’t already. There is nothing proprietary about it; just culmination of existing technologies of HTTP, AtomPub and Json to provide a platform independent way of sharing information. As I [...]
Getting the Windows Azure WP7 Toolkit demo to work
Posted: May 9, 2011 in Azure Goodness, Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: Azure, WP7Dev
With Windows Phone 7, we have always been encouraged to think of a mobile solution to be not just the one that runs as an app on the phone; it can be so much more. Modern smartphones, as highly as we think of them, are still not very powerful devices and one always has to [...]
