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Learning Microsoft Azure

You're reading from   Learning Microsoft Azure A comprehensive guide to cloud application development using Microsoft Azure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782173373
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Geoff Webber Cross Geoff Webber Cross
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure FREE CHAPTER 2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure 3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure 4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database 5. Building Azure MVC Websites 6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging 7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration 8. Building Worker Roles 9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration 10. Web API and Client Integration 11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services 12. Preparing an Azure System for Production Index

Creating the supply mobile service

We've not touched the supply business domain yet, so we're going to create a mobile service and a Windows Store application that allows warehouse staff to view orders, which are ready to dispatch, print labels, and mark orders as Dispatched on their tablet devices.

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I've created a full set of supporting samples for the supply business domain, most of which aren't documented as we've not got space in the book, and we've mostly covered its material already; however, there are some interesting bits in the supply order processor, which writes orders to an order table in table storage and automatically generates barcode labels in the JPEG format and writes them to blob storage, so have a look at that!

We'll create the service and install the required NuGet packages in the following procedure:

  1. Right-click on the solution and go to Add | New project and select the Windows Azure Mobile Service template from the Cloud template...
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