As I announced in a previous post , there is an OData client library that supports Windows Store app development. This is a the good news, but folks who have tried to use it in their Windows Store apps are quick to note that the library’s asynchronous...

I just wanted to take a few minutes to share some exciting new videos and samples-related activity for Mobile Services—particularly for Windows Store apps. (You can find even more details at http://www.nickharris.net/2013/01/new-windows-azure-mobile...

Well, it’s now 2013, and I spent some time over the holidays messing around with using custom parameters in my mobile service… Windows Azure Mobile Services makes it rather easy to both read data from and modify data in a mobile service by using HTTP...

I’m super excited that today Microsoft has released an updated version of the Live SDK for Windows and Windows Phone . This new version supports Windows Phone 8, and includes the new async behaviors, like await , which makes async SO much easier...

Some interesting things today for fans of Windows Azure Mobile Services, Microsoft’s cloud-based backend solution for mobile device apps… Mobile Services Feedback Site is Open I wanted to let you know that the Windows Azure Mobile Services...

Just a quick post today to call out some excellent posts by my compadre Ralph Squillace on using Mobile Services in iOS apps over on the Silver Lining blog : Windows Azure Mobile Services with iOS and Android Data Input Validation using the Windows Azure...

This is a great day for Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, with the official launch of Windows Phone 8 along with the following Windows Phone 8-related clients and toolkits: Windows Phone 8 SDK Mobile Services SDK for Windows Phone 8 Windows Phone Toolkit...

The Windows Azure team just enabled a whole set of new features and functionalities for the still-in-preview Mobile Services offering. You can read ScottGu’s blog post with the full details (there is a lot), but I wanted to specifically highlight two...

There are a couple of interesting news items re. OData and WCF Data Services: WCF Data Services 5.1.0-RC2 is released The WCF Data Services team continues to work towards shoring-up support for the OData v3 spec, especially on a simplified JSON...

Folks have been asking for a Visual Basic version of the Windows Azure Mobile Services quickstart and tutorial. This is probably because the Windows Azure Management Portal currently does not support the generation of the quickstart project in Visual...

For those of you who have been following my blog, you know that I am very interested in the nexus of data services and mobile device apps, and especially OData Services and Windows Phone and Windows (8) Store apps. In most of the apps that I have written...

I’m happy to announce that OData client support for Windows Store apps (“formerly Metro apps”) in Windows 8 RTM has been released. This didn’t actually get chained into Visual Studio 2012 like it was in the pre-release, but it...

I wrote an article for Windows Azure a while back called Guidance for OData in Windows Azure , where I described options for hosting OData services in Windows Azure. The easiest way to do this is to create a hosted WCF Data Service in Windows Azure that...

Sorry the blog’s been quiet for so long…I’ve been working on some new stuff that’s not strictly OData, but still very cool and I can’t wait to be able to share it with everyone. It has to do with mobile app development…but you will have to wait another...

In the previous post Running WCF Data Services on Windows 8 Consumer Preview- Part 1 , I described running WCF Data Services on the Windows 8 desktop…but what I have really been wanting to do is write a Win8 Metro style app that consumes an OData feed...

Now that WCF Data Services 5.0 has been shipped with support for OData v3, it’s time to start updating existing applications to take advantage of some of the new features of OData v3. For a complete list of new OData v3 features that are supported in...

Great news… WCF Data Services 5.0 was released today! This new product release provides client and server support for OData v3 for the .NET Framework and Silverlight. Previous versions of WCF Data Services were actually part of the .NET Framework...

Windows 8 Desktop I have a Samsung Slate 7, which is the device that was given to the //Build/ conference attendees to run the developer preview of Windows 8 to best demonstrate the new Metro interface. However, I ended up waiting for the Consumer...

In the course of trying to answer a customer question on how to leverage the WCF Data Services client for caching, I came across a great blog post on the subject—which I had almost completely forgotten about: Working with Local Entities in Astoria Client...

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 the WCF Data Services Client . This is why...

If you recall from my previous post Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 1) , I had written a T4 template for my Windows Phone 7.5 (“Mango”) project to generate a proxy client needed to access both an OData service and local database...

Just a quick post to let everyone know that we have just published a new set of Windows Azure prescriptive guidance topics for developers: Windows Azure Developer Guidance This release includes two guidance topics I wrote: Guidance for OData in Windows...

-or- Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 3) If you have been following this series , you know that I have been demonstrating a way to persist data from an OData feed to a local Windows Phone (“Mango”) device. Just to refresh, here are...

-or- Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 2) In my previous post in this series, I described how to use a T4 template in Visual Studio to generate a hybrid proxy that supports both OData feeds and local database storage. There were also...

or My First T4 Template This is the first blog post in a new series that focuses on my work to develop prescriptive guidance for synchronizing clients with cloud services—more specifically, how to best create and maintain a local cache of...