Creating a Mobile Service
The first step required to use Azure Mobile Services is to log in to the Windows Azure Management Portal and create a new Mobile Service. You log in to the portal by navigating to http://manage.WindowsAzure.com.
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I am assuming that you have subscribed to Windows Azure. If you haven’t subscribed then you need to visit http://WindowsAzure.com. They provide a free trial account if you just want to play with Microsoft’s multibillion dollar data centers.
After you log in to the portal, you can create a new Mobile Service by clicking the tab on the left of the page (see Figure 10.1). You create a new Mobile Service by providing a URL and creating a SQL Azure database. For example, I created a new service with the URL ...
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