In Part 1 I covered a simple implementation of the Authentication feature and portable class libraries from the Azure Mobile Services SDK.  However, as mentioned in the "Good & Bad So Far" section; there is not a whole lot of code reuse other than the Azure endpoint and secret key.  Let's refactor a bit by adding some interfaces, conditional compile statements and the MVVM Light Event Bus to help the same solution operate cleaner. The "after" code for part one is available here. Building Our Core PortableAzure.Core is our Portable Class Library that is being shared with the Windows 8 and  Windows Phone project in the attempt to reuse as much code as possible.  However,...

Azure Mobile Services is undoubtedly one of the best platforms to emerge from the Azure group over the last year. If you are a mobile developer and not taking advantage of it; I encourage you to do so.  There are many video and blog posts available to get you started at http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/ . One of the features you may not be aware of is Azure Mobile Services is a Portable Class Library (PCL) available through nuget. If you are not familiar with PCL's see my "Move Your ViewModels" series. There is a caveat however when using Azure Mobile Services in your PCL; although all of the data calls to the services are...

I have recently spent some time with Telerik's new product offering for cross mobile development called Icenium and I have to say it is quite nice.  Paired with KendoUI Mobile you can't go wrong with a great set of tools for cross mobile platform development if you are an HTML + CSS + JavaScript developer. IceniumIcenium is a cloud based IDE, there is also a Windows WPF Click-Once app, that allows you as a developer to leverage your existing HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills to develop hybrid cross mobile platform applications.  Assistance of publishing your applications to the Google Play and Apple Store, integrated debugging and development environment, source control integration (including Git) and much more.  See http://www....

I will admit that Regex and I do not speak anymore.  In fact, even when we did it was never a really nice conversation and sometimes ended in me cursing and/or leaving the room. If you have had this same experience when creating custom routes in ASP.NET MVC then you know what I'm talking about. IRouteConstraint IRouteConstraint has been around for some time in MVC, but it is also available in Web API too because of course it is based on the same stack for routing. Undoubtedly, the most difficult part of routes is debugging or getting the Regex right. I recently re-lived this experience when having to create a custom API route for a project something...

I will be giving two talks this Saturday at South Florida Code Camp, being held at Nova University in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.  For directions and more information visithttp://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp/. Schedule for other sessions here. My Sessions Introduction to ASP.NET Web API - Why you should be using it. This is an introduction to ASP.NET WebAPI and how easy it is to get started and use it in your application development when building RESTful services.TypeScriptCome see how it can make you a more productive JavaScript developer or even a new one. I'll cover the core concepts, compare JavaScript practices and even show how to use in a Windows 8 app....