Carlos Figueira MSDN blog

In my last post I mentioned that due to the heterogeneous nature of Azure Mobile Services (JavaScript in the server, other languages / frameworks in the client), some data types have some problems with the conversion between the two environments. Numbers...

In any distributed system with different runtime environments, the way that data is represented in all nodes of the system, and transferred between them, can cause some problems if there is a mismatch between the nodes. In Azure Mobile Services we often...

Another quick one today. After some feedback from the community, we released a new version of the Azure Mobile Services iOS SDK which contains, in addition to a few bug fixes, some changes in the method names of some of the classes. Those changes were...

Quick post today. About a month ago we released a NuGet version of the managed client SDK. Last week we released the SDK for Windows Store applications / JavaScript also on NuGet, so you can develop applications using that platform without needing any...

Among the requested features in the various forums for Azure Mobile Services, the usage of portable libraries has popped up quite often. We now have that support, which unifies the managed clients for the Windows Store and Windows Phone 8 platforms –...

Currently if you want to create a Windows Store application which uses Azure Mobile Services, the process would be to go to either the quickstart page of your application in the Azure Portal (or the Windows Azure downloads page ) and install the Mobile...

One of the common complaints about the authentication support in the Windows 8 SDK for Azure Mobile Services is that regardless of whether the user selects the “save password” / “remember me” checkbox when entering their credentials, every time the application...

With the Azure Mobile Services client SDK, it’s fairly simple to insert an item into a table in Azure. Inserting multiple items can be also done fairly easily, simply inserting one at a time. But there are some scenarios where we want to actually do multiple...

With the introduction of the server-side authentication flow (which I mentioned in my last post ), it’s now a lot simpler to authenticate users with Windows Azure Mobile Services. Once the LoginAsync / login / loginViewControllerWithProvider:completion...

With the announcement last week in ScottGu’s blog , Azure Mobile Service now supports different kinds of authentication in addition to authentication using the Windows Live SDK which was supported at first. You can now authenticate the users of your applications...

As I was writing the last post (about storing per-user data in Azure Mobile Services), I used the where method in the Query object (passed to the read function ) to filter the results only to those for the logged in user. function read(query, user, request...

Following up on a comment made in one of my posts, this one will talk about some ways to ensure that the data stored / retrieved in an Azure Mobile Services table is limited to the user which is using the application. That’s an interesting issue...

In this series about complex types, we’ll take where we left off the previous post : we have now added support in the client for complex types, and used an implementation of the IDataMemberJsonConverter interface to teach the managed client how to serialize...

In my last post I showed how to use the IDataMemberJsonConverter to enable data types which aren’t natively supported by the managed client for Mobile Services. But I only touched on simple types, leaving more complex types for this post. Let’s...

As I mentioned in my previous post , the Windows Azure Mobile Services client library supports natively four data types: Boolean, strings, dates and numbers – which translated to .NET terms in the managed client, means Boolean, String, DateTime and all...

A few months back I left the ASP.NET MVC / Web API team to work more closely with the Windows Azure team. Today we released a new service in the Windows Azure family – mobile support. The idea is to provide functionality for client developers who may...

Last month the new Windows Azure features were released , and one of them which I found quite interesting was the “ Web Sites ”. Currently I have an account at GoDaddy.com where I host my “pet projects”, and now that Windows Azure has a similar feature...

The code for this post is published in the MSDN Code Gallery . A few months back I had posted some code to enable support for CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) in the ASP.NET Web API. At that point, that product was in its Beta version, and with the...

The code for this post can be downloaded from the MSDN Code Gallery . A pair of popular posts which I did a couple months back was to show how one can implement CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) in the net ASP.NET Web API framework. This week I...

When we were defining the features that the “ Add Service Reference ” (ASR) dialog for Windows 8 Metro-style applications would have (so that those apps could use typed proxies to consume SOAP services), one of the points where there was some confusion...

Very quick post today. WCF now has a UserVoice channel, a way for customers to suggest features to be implemented in the next version of the framework, as well as things which you think should be better. Check it out at http://tinyurl.com/wcfvnext and...

Every once in a while I look at the statistics of my blog to see which post is getting more traction. Yesterday I published a post about a function which I found out recently, and seeing the same mistakes I had made in a recent code review I thought it...

Having working on the test team for many products which involve serialization (conversion between CLR objects and various wire formats, such as XML, binary and JSON), I’ve created my share of test types, since there are many, many rules about serialization...

I’ve seen this question to many times in different forums, and answered in many different ways that I decided to write a post with more details about it. The title says it all, but I want to reiterate the answer that I had to give so many times: Using...

The code for this post can be downloaded in the MSDN Code Gallery . A couple of weeks back, Youssef Moussaoui posted about a way to create a lightweight service using the ASP.NET Web APIs . His code was built using the self-hosted support for the APIs...