December 2012 – Low Code Life

If you’ve been following along with this series so far, you know we’ve come along way, from my overview of the series, which described the target scenario of a simple leaderboard service for a couple of JavaScript-based Windows 8 games, to the 2-part post (Part 1 / Part 2) on building this service using WCF Data Services, and hosting as an Azure Cloud Service, to the most recent installment, in which I showed how to build the same service using ASP.NET Web API, and hosted in a Windows Azure Web Site.

To round out the group of solutions I’m exploring in the series, in this post I’ll show you how to build the same game leaderboard service on top of the new Windows Azure Mobile Services (in preview as of this writing).

Continue reading Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: Windows Azure Mobile Services

In this series, I’m exploring a variety of ways to build back-end data storage and services for Windows 8 apps (many of which, BTW, can also be used for other mobile and web apps as well). Here are the posts so far:

Overview – High-level view of some of the available platform technologies, and a discussion of the game leaderboard scenario I’m using to demonstrate them, as well as the games I’m using for my demos.
Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: OData – Part 1 – Creating the database and schema, using Entity Framework to model the data store, and using WCF Data Services to expose the model via as a RESTful service with rich queryability.
Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: OData – Part 2 – Deploying the service to Windows Azure, and wiring up the leaderboard service to the games, using a custom JavaScript library with a well-defined API.

Continue reading Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: ASP.NET Web API