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1. Flexible authentication model, push notifications and notifications hub integration, and client SDKs for all major mobile platforms.
2. This is the highest level of authorization, which overrides all other levels and requires the mobile service master key, which should not be used in client applications.
3. TableControllers are typed against the ITableData interface, which requires a number of default fields, which an existing table may not have. We can either map the existing entities to a new entity using something like AutoMapper, or use an API controller.
4. ScheduledJob; this can be called with an HTTP POST request and configured to run on a schedule in the portal.
5. Add models for the AspNetUser and AspNetUserLogin users to the DbContext with matching DbSet properties, and use these to relate the login provider ID and key from the user credentials to the values in the tables.
6. This allows requests without an authentication certificate to make push notifications limited to 500 per day.
7. The MobileServiceUser...