I introduced push as a concept in the last article, but I left a teaser – push to a subset of users with tags. Tags are really a meta-thing that equates to “interests”, but it’s really the way you would implement such things as “push-to-user” and “push-to-group”. They can literally be anything. Before I can…
I’ve been working on custom APIs for the last couple of days. Custom APIs are awesome for executing random pieces of code to do things like “complete an order” or “send a message”. One of the awesome things is that I get access to everything that Azure Mobile Apps has access to. This includes authentication…
Thus far, I’ve covered authentication and table controllers in both the ASP.NET world and the Node.js world. I’ve got two clients – an Apache Cordova one and a Universal Windows one – and I’ve got two servers – a Node.js one and an ASP.NET one. I’ve looked at what it takes to bring in existing…
Thus far, I’ve done a bunch on the server that is associated with a new database and a new table. Most of the time, however, I am linking to an existing database and an existing table. Azure Mobile Apps requires that tables provide certain fields. In this article, I’m going to look at linking an…
There are times when accessing one table for your data is just not enough. Let’s take an example. I have a simple task list app right now. I’ve got it running on all the mobile platforms – iOS, Android and Windows. But I can only see my tasks. What if I want to show my…
I’ve covered the basics of table controllers in the last two posts, covering both per-table configuration and per-operation configuration. Today I’m going to talk about extensibility and middleware. Middleware is a fairly basic concept – it provides a capability of inserting custom code into the HTTP request/response pipeline. Express has a whole section on middleware…
Over the last six articles, I’ve covered just about everything there is to do about Authentication. It’s time to turn my attention to data. Specifically, SQL table data. Azure Mobile Apps has two SDKs on the server side – an ASP.NET 4.6 version and a Node.js version. The node.js version is also used for the…
