With Microsoft Azure Mobile Apps you can add a scalable backend to your connected client applications in minutes. To learn more, visit our Developer Center.
If you are new to Mobile Services, you can get started by following our tutorials for connecting your Mobile Services cloud backend to Windows Store apps, and Windows Phone 8 apps.
To get the source code of our SDKs and samples via git just type:
git clone https://github.com/Azure/azure-mobile-apps-net-client.git
cd ./azure-mobile-apps-net-client/
Our managed portable library for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 8.1, and Windows Runtime Universal C# Client SDK makes it incredibly easy to use Mobile Services from your Windows applications. The Microsoft Azure Mobile Services SDK is available as a Nuget package or you can download the source using the instructions above. The managed portable library also supports the full .NET 4.5 platform.
The SDK requires Visual Studio 2013.
###Building and Referencing the SDK
The managed portable library solution includes a core portable assembly and platform-specific assemblies for each of the supported platforms: Windows 8,
Windows Phone 8 and .NET 4.5. The core portable platform project is Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile
. The platform-specific assembly projects are
named using a Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.Ext.<Platform>
convention. The Windows Phone 8 platform also
include a Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.UI.<Platform>
project that contain UI components. To build the Managed Portable Libray:
- Open the
sdk\Managed\Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.Managed.sln
solution file in Visual Studio 2012. - Press F6 to build the solution.
The managed portable library Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.Managed.sln
has a test application for each of the supported platforms: Windows 8,
Windows Phone 8 and .NET 4.5.
- Open the
sdk\Managed\Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.Managed.sln
solution file in Visual Studio 2012. - Right-click on the test project for a given platform in the Solution Explorer and select
Set as StartUp Project
. - Press F5 to run the application in debug mode.
- An application will appear with a prompt for a runtime Uri and Tags. You can safely ignore this prompt and just click the Start button.
- The test suite will run and display the results.
- Quickstarts
- E2E Test Suite
- Samples
- Tutorials and product overview are available at Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Developer Center.
- Our product team actively monitors the Mobile Services Developer Forum to assist you with any troubles.
If you would like to become an active contributor to this project please follow the instructions provided in Microsoft Azure Projects Contribution Guidelines.
If you encounter any bugs with the library please file an issue in the Issues section of the project.