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Building Web Services with Windows Azure (new)

You're reading from   Building Web Services with Windows Azure (new) Quickly develop scalable, REST-based applications or services and learn how to manage them using Microsoft Azure

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784398378
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface Introduction FREE CHAPTER 1. Getting Started with the ASP.NET Web API 2. Extending the ASP.NET Web API 3. API Management 4. Developing a Web API for Mobile Apps 5. Connecting Applications with Microsoft Azure Service Bus 6. Creating Hybrid Services 7. Data Services in the Cloud – an Overview of ADO.NET and Entity Framework 8. Data Services in the Cloud – Microsoft Azure Storage 9. Data Services in the Cloud – NoSQL in Microsoft Azure Index

Azure Mobile Services

Mobile programming constitutes a different breed of application developers; unlike the traditional development paradigms, these developers want to focus more on their ideas than on how the infrastructure is going to be set up behind the scenes. At the same time, releasing the mobile app in the market is also critical, the competition in the mobile app market is brutal and any delay in a release may drive customers away to a different app providing similar features. So does this make the backend services trivial? Well, it is the other way round. While mobile app development is typically popularized by ideating and realization through an intuitive UI and rich functionality, without a robust and scalable infrastructure backend, a successful mobile app will almost always remain an idea!

Azure Mobile Services acts as a bridge for mobile developers, relieving them from common backend tasks such as storage, authenticating users, sending notifications, and at the same time...

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