Contents tagged with Microsoft Azure
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Windows Azure Mobile Services with .NET Backend
In this post, I will take a look at the new .NET support provided in Windows Azure Mobile Services for building mobile backend. Windows Azure Mobile Services was a technology based on Node.js, where we write backend code in JavaScript and we can leverage the Node.js ecosystem including NPM modules. But with the new release of Windows Azure Mobile Services, we can also build Mobile Services backend with .NET, which is a ASP.NET Web API based infrastructure. This is super exciting feature to .Net developers as developers can now work with Visual Studio 2013 for building Mobile Services backend with .NET where they can debug, test and run applications locally with their favourite IDE Visual Studio. For ASP.NET Web API developers, they can work with Mobile Services using their existing skills.
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Slides For My Session On Windows Azure Mobile Services
I did a presentation titled “A Deep Dive Into Windows Azure Mobile Services” at the Kochi DevCon 2014. In this session, I demonstrated how we can write server-side scripts in Windows Azure Mobile Services, by using JavaScript and Node.js. You can download the session slides from here.
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Better NPM Support in Windows Azure Mobile Services with package.json
A while ago, I blogged about Git Source Control Integration in Windows Azure Mobile Services which lets the developers use Git for working with Mobile Services scripts. The source control integration lets you easily work as a team for working on Mobile Services scripts. This options lets Node.js developers more flexibility and control on the Windows Azure Mobile Services scripts, as you can install npm modules for your Windows Azure Mobile Services. But, this source control integration, had lack of support for package.json so that we had been inconvenient, while working with version controls. In fact, Node.js developers ignore node_modules from source controls and will be installed npm modules using npm install command which will identify dependencies from package.json and will automatically install npm modules.
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Creating Windows Azure Virtual Machines Using Azure CLI and VM Depot
In this blog post, I will take a look at Windows Azure VM Depot, and how to create Virtual Machines in Windows Azure by using cross platform command line tool, Azure CLI based on the deployment script provided by VM Depot.
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Building a Node.js Web Site on Windows Azure using Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
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My Session on Windows Azure Mobile Services
I did a presentation titled “Building Mobile Backends with Windows Azure Mobile Services” at the Kerala Microsoft user group. In this session, I demonstrated how we can use Windows Azure Mobile Services as the backend for mobile applications with the power of Cloud.
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My Session on JavaScript, Meet Cloud : Node.js on Windows Azure
I did a presentation titled “JavaScript, Meet Cloud: Node.js on Windows Azure” at the Kerala JavaScript user group. The goal of the session, was to demonstrate the capabilities of JavaScript, as a programming language on the Cloud, for building server-side applications and Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS). In he session, I had demonstrated Windows Azure as a Cloud platform for building Node.js apps and Mobile backend services.
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Deploying Socket.IO App to Windows Azure Web Site with Azure CLI
In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to deploy Socket.IO app to Windows Azure Website using Windows Azure Cross-Platform Command-Line Interface, which leverages the Windows Azure Website’s new support for Web Sockets. Recently Windows Azure has announced lot of enhancements including the support for Web Sockets in Windows Azure Websites, which lets the Node.js developers deploy Socket.IO apps to Windows Azure Websites. In this blog post, I am using Windows Azure CLI for create and deploy Windows Azure Website.
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Cloud MBaaS : The Next Big Thing in Enterprise Mobility
In this blog post, I will take a look at Cloud Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) and how we can leverage Cloud based Mobile Backend as a Service for building enterprise mobile apps. Today, mobile apps are incredibly significant in both consumer and enterprise space and the demand for the mobile apps is unbelievably increasing in day to day business. An enterprise can’t survive in business without a proper mobility strategy. A better mobility strategy and faster delivery of your mobile apps will give you an extra mileage for your business and IT strategy. So organizations and mobile developers are looking for different strategy for meeting this demand and adopting different development strategy for their mobile apps. Some developers are adopting hybrid mobile app development platforms, for delivering their products for multiple platforms, for fast time-to-market. Others are adopting a Mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) such as Kony for their enterprise mobile apps for fast time-to-market and better business integration.
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Git Source Control Integration with Windows Azure Mobile Services
In this blog post, I will take a look at Git source control integration provided by Windows Azure Mobile Services. Windows Azure Mobile Services is great framework for mobile backend development on the Windows Azure platform, which provides a Node.js based programming model for writing server-side scripts. You can write the mobile services scripts in browser window provided by Windows Azure developer portal. Windows Azure Mobile Services also provides you to setup source control with Git, which lets you clone the Git repository for Mobile Services scripts, in your local machine where you can work on the Mobile Services scripts in your favourite IDE or text editor and later you can commit and push the source code back to Windows Azure production environment. The source control integration lets you easily work as a team for working on Mobile Services scripts.
