azure mobile services

Since .NET Core was announced, I've really been loving the command line experience for .NET Core. Being able to use dotnet new to start a new application regardless of the OS or what shell/terminal experience is on a machine is the way to happiness. The Azure Functions team has put together some fancy new templates for creating serverless apps now. Getting the new templates installed .NET Core templates are all just NuGet packages and installed using dotnet new -i <package-path>. In this case, the templates are on a private feed, so you need to get them nupkg files from https://functionscdn.azureedge.net/public/cli-feed-v3.json. The latest current version right now is from the feed: "2....

I've been working with Azure Mobile Services since it was released and until recently only the JavaScript backend was available, built using node.js. Although it is very mature with many options, the community was pressuring for a .NET option and now it is available. Modeled much like a standard Web API / MVC project at first glance, there may be a few things that you like to take advantage of in these types of projects that throw you for a loop when using the new .NET option. These include Dependency Injection, Entity Framework (Migrations and Relationships), and the help page. Getting Started You have two options for getting a project started. 1. Go to the Azure Portal and create a...