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Azure Active Directory Graph API and Azure Mobile Service
Last month in an earlier post I talked about using the Azure Active Directory Graph API Client library in my Azure Mobile Service. Whilst everything I wrote about does indeed when published to the...
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Multiple Bootstrapper in WebApiConfig for Mobile Service
In my “wisdom” I decided to rename the primary assembly for my Mobile Service (ie just changing the assembly name in the Properties pane for the Mobile Service).This all worked nicely when running...
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Database Migrations with Package Manager Console and Azure Mobile Services
I was caught out recently after I published an incorrect database migration into my cloud base Azure Mobile Service (I created a second controller based on the RealEstateProperty entity instead of the...
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Custom Domains for Azure Mobile Services
As packaging a cloud based solution one of the tasks is to change the configuration of the services so that they have a application specific domain. In the case of Azure websites this feature has been...
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Communication and Synchronization using Background Tasks with Windows and...
In an earlier post I covered creating a background task for Windows platform applications that would allow for synchronization in the background, triggered by change in Internet availability. However,...
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Azure Active Directory with Mobile Services without Prompting Every Time the...
Currently, every time the application is run the user is prompted to sign into Azure Active Directory, and then the AD issued token is then used to login to Azure Mobile Service. Not only is this a...
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Using a Refresh Token to Renew an Expired Access Token for Azure Active...
Currently my application attempts to acquire the access token silently which equates to looking to see if there is a current (ie not expired) token in the token cache. However, tokens don’t live for...
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Source Code for Real Estate Inspector Sample on GitHub
I’ve got around to publishing the current source code pieces to GitHub. It’s currently very hotch-potch as I’ve been focussing on demonstrating/fleshing out a lot of the concepts for my blog posts....
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Navigation, View Models, Pages, Frames and Universal Windows Applications
Over the past couple of month Microsoft has been laying the groundwork to get developers excited about the upcoming universal application model that will ship with Windows 10. The promise of a single...
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View Models for Split Frame Windows
In my previous post I talked about adapting the application UX for varying screen size. Currently the navigation model relies on a one to one mapping between pages and view models. However, with the...
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Data Synchronization and Sqlite Data Model For Multi-User Scenarios
Most consumer application are built to either run anonymously (ie not captured information about who the user is) or they are designed with a single user in mind (think the Facebook application –...
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Navigation Flow for Real Estate Inspector Application for Windows Phone
In building out the pages for the Real Estate Inspector application the first step is to think through the core pages that make up the application. The following navigation flow diagram illustrates the...
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Breaking up the User Experience to Allow for Reuse across Windows and Windows...
Last post I talked about the basic flow of the Real Estate Inspector application (overly simplified of course as it’s a sample application) and I eluded to the need to have a different user experience...
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Dynamic Layout with the Windows Platform
Today there have been a number of announcements in regards to the Windows 10 universal app platform, including the availability of the tools...
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Fix Login Failures to Azure Mobile Services with Enhanced Users Features for...
One of the applications that we’ve been working on that leverages the older javascript backend version of Azure Mobile services was seeing some cases where users couldn’t login. For a while we put it...
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Code Reorganisation for Real Estate Inspector Sample
I’ve just published up to GitHub a massive reorganisation of the code that I’ve been covering in previous posts. It also includes initial support for Windows 10 UAP support. However, it has been...
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Disabling the Pinch-Zoom behaviour of the WebBrowser control on Windows Phone
This is an issue that seems to keep coming back to haunt us on various projects where we have to embed web content within a Windows Phone application. One of the best solutions is to modify the CSS of...
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Package Manifest for Windows 10
As the tools for Windows 10 applications are still in preview there are some limitations and some features that aren’t quite ready yet. One of these is the designer for the package.manifest file, so...
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Unable to Activate Windows Store App
I was running up one of our Windows 10 projects today and I encountered a somewhat cryptic error stating that Visual Studio was “Unable to activate Windows Store app…. The … process started, but the...
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Windows 10 Jumpstart Training
Whenever I try to locate the jumpstart training for the Windows 10 Developer Preview tools it always seems to take longer than expected. Anyhow, I thought I’d re-post the direct links to each of the...
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