Connecting to the Remote Database Table

Before you can perform any operation against a remote database table such as inserting or updating data, you must first connect to a Mobile Service and get a reference to the remote table.

There are two main objects included in the Mobile Services library: the MobileServiceClient object and the MobileServiceTable object. Here’s how you use these two objects to get a reference to the Tasks table:

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// Get Tasks table from Azure Mobile Servicesvar mobileServiceClient = new WindowsAzure.MobileServiceClient(    "https://unleashed.azure-mobile.net/",    "IwZcChdiEkqUvZBzPrHCNVifFpVgto72");var tasksTable = mobileServiceClient.getTable('Tasks');

The constructor for the MobileServiceClient ...

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