Authentication and Windows Azure Mobile Services
In Chapter 10, “Using Windows Azure Mobile Services,” I demonstrated how you can use Windows Azure Mobile Services to store app data in the cloud. In particular, I showed you how you can create a Tasks database table hosted on Azure and execute inserts, updates, deletes, and queries from a Windows Store app using Mobile Services.
However, in that chapter, I avoided the whole issue of authentication. Anyone could read any data and make any changes to the Tasks table. Anyone could do anything, which is very dangerous.
In this section, I want to explain how you can use Live Connect authentication—which we discussed in the previous section—to control access to Mobile Services. I demonstrate how you ...
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