Summary

In this chapter, we went through what Windows Azure provides: Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service. We set up a free Windows Azure account and set up an Azure Mobile Services instance. Next, we created all the tables we needed to store our data and wrote a few scripts to add the business logic to the web service. We implemented the client-side code for making requests against Azure Mobile Services. Lastly, we implemented push notifications for iOS using the Apple Push Notification Service and for Android using Google Cloud Messaging.

Using Azure Mobile Services, we were able to get by without writing much of the server-side code—mainly a few simple scripts. It would be pretty challenging to implement push notifications ...

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