Like I promised in my first post about Windows Azure Mobile Services, I will show you how to call the Twitter Rest API 1.1 from a scheduled script. The documentation of the http request object does...
I know this is a little provocative title – that is my intention. And of course I will tell you why. I am participating in several betas for Windows Phone apps. I know some of the developers from ...
When it comes to Mobile Services, there are a lot of things you can do with the user’s data. One of them is to update the Live Tiles of their apps as well as send them Toast Notifications. To under...
I truly love Windows Azure Mobile Services, as it provides an easy way to connect Windows Phone apps to the cloud and also manages Live Tiles and Toast Notifications via Push. This way, we don’t ha...
In my second post about WAMS I will show you how to respect the time zone of every user. If you have users that are from all over the world, they have all different time zones. Your Mobile Service...
Like I promised, I will share some of the Azure goodness I learned during creating my last app. This post is all about how to update a specific table entry (like a user’s data) in a Azure SQL tabl...
Now that my current app project is near to go live, I will start a new series about how to get productive with Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS). I will cover some interesting topics in this se...
If you are following me and my development story a little bit, you know that I am building a new app (ok, it’s RTM already). I wanted to add a manual refresh button to my MainPage, but there was n...
Phew, my first post about my journey on starting development on Windows Azure. I started a few weeks ago using the Mobile Services from Windows Azure, and I did learn a lot about it. This post is ...
In one of their latest shows, Vernon and Andrew from the awesome Glance and Go Radio discussed whether or not having a lockscreen still makes sense. Unlike many people may think, lockscreens were n...