Setting Permissions for Your Mobile Service

Next, I want to restrict access to my Mobile Service for the Tasks table so that only authenticated users can insert, update, delete, and read the tasks from the table. You can set Mobile Service permissions from within Visual Studio or you can set the permissions from the Windows Azure Management Portal (purely a matter of preference).

Here are the steps for setting permissions for the Tasks table within Visual Studio:

1. Open the Server Explorer window by selecting the menu option View, Server Explorer.

2. Expand Windows Azure Mobile Services, expand the Mobile Service, and right-click the Tasks table and select the menu option Edit Permissions (see Figure 14.12).

FIGURE 14.12 Setting mobile service ...

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