Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development

Creating tables and scripts

The first step to implement something in Azure Mobile Services is to create a new table. By default, Azure Mobile Services uses a feature called dynamic schemas with its SQL database. When you insert a row from the client, new columns are dynamically added to the table. This prevents you from having to create the database schema manually and is a neat code-first approach to develop your backend database. You can always connect to the SQL database manually to fine tune things or make manual changes to the schema.

Return to the management portal, select your mobile services instance, and perform the following steps:

1. Click on the Data tab.
2. Click on the Create button found at the bottom center of the page.
3. Enter User as the ...