Exploring Azure Mobile Services
For the server side of XamChat, we'll use Azure Mobile Services to provide backend storage to the application. A mobile service is a neat solution to accelerate development for mobile applications that provide data storage and a REST-based API, which is a standards-based way of communicating with a web service over HTTP. Azure Mobile Services also includes a .NET client library for interacting with the service from C#.
A few nice features of Azure Mobile Services are as follows:
- Storage of data in the cloud with SQL Azure or other Azure data services such as Blob or Table storage
- Easy authentication with Windows Live ID, Facebook, Google, and Twitter
- Push notifications with iOS, Android, and Windows devices
- Code the ...
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