Consulting/Training John Garland Principal Consultant [email protected] @dotnetgator Putting the Cloud in Your Pocket Using Azure Mobile Services (.NET)
Putting the Cloud in Your Pocket with Azure Mobile Services (.NET)
Dec 19, 2014
Azure Mobile Services provides developers a valuable tool that can be leveraged to quickly create rich and robust mobile apps in the current Mobile First, Cloud First environment. This session will review the capabilities offered by the Azure Mobile Services tools, specifically focusing on the new .NET-based backend. The talk will show how Azure Mobile Services can be used to quickly stand up cloud-based API support and provide the various cloud service integration needs of most mobile apps, including data storage and manipulation, authentication and authorization, connection to notification services, offline data synchronization, and custom server-based job scheduling.
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John Garland
Principal Consultant
@dotnetgator
Putting the Cloud in Your PocketUsing Azure Mobile Services (.NET)
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Thank You to Our Sponsors!
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Cloud and mobile are in fact one and the same.
The mobile devices that users are flocking to are useless without the cloud.
And the cloud…is just a theory until you have a device that's both powerful enough to run apps that can take advantage of it and mobile enough that those apps are with you all the time, and working on your behalf.
Paul ThurrottWill IT Ever Buy into “Mobile First, Cloud First”? 4/29/2014http://j.mp/1jjFzs2
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Microsoft AzureMedia
Services
Access Control
Azure Active
DirectoryService
Bus
Content Delivery Network
Azure SQL Database
Azure Storage
Virtual Machines
Web SitesCloud Services
Azure Mobile Services
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan
Ease-of-use
Control
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Introducing Mobile Services (.NET Backend)
Data Storage
Server-Side Logic
Authentication & Authorization
Push Notifications with Notification Hubs
Prices & Tiers
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A factory for creating REST APIs that can access several back-end services:Provisioning and Management of Storage
Server-Side Business Logic with Source Control Integration
Authentication & Authorization
Push Notification Integration
Scheduled Script Execution
The Two Parts of Azure Mobile Services
Client libraries Simplify using the REST APIs provided by the serverClient-side tooling (WAB, Offline Data Sync with SQLite)Source code for the client libraries is available on GitHub:
http://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services
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Getting Started with the Windows Azure Mobile Services Portal
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Out of the box support for SQL Azure, Azure Tables, Mongo DB
For SQL AzureAccess via EF6 Code-First
Automapper support is included to provide DB Entity to DTO Conversions
Use DB Migrations for schema updates
3 Steps: Data Model, Data Context, Data Controller
Data Storage
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With the .NET client library, apps can either use strongly typed data objects or dynamic JSON objects
With strongly-typed data, object/table and property/column names can be aliased Using the DataTable attribute or the JsonProperty attribute
Table operations includeQuery(where, skip/take, orderby/thenby)
Lookup (find by id)
Insert
Update
Delete
Consuming Data Tables (.NET apps)
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3 Execution Models for Server CodeTable Controller Methods (CRUD)
Custom API REST Endpoints
Scheduler Jobs
Services property provides access to Log, Push, Settings, Properties
Functionality can be extended with NuGet or other Assembly references
Server-Side Business Logic
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Working with Data
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Authentication & Authorization
Out of box supportMicrosoft Account, Twitter, Google, Facebook, Azure Active Directory
“Secret Values” stored on the server in the Portal, behind the firewall
Authentication FlowsServer-Flow: Server (Mobile Services) manages the authentication process
Client-Flow: Client authenticates on its own, passes token to server
AuthorizationScoped within the Controllers – entire controller or individual methods
Levels: Anonymous, Application, User, Administrator
Custom Authentication Extensibility
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Facebook, Google, Microsoft Account
Specify in the portal’s “app settings” section
The authentication token that is obtained during login then supports requests for additional information from the identity provider
Available ValuesMicrosoft Account Scopes - http://j.mp/MicrosoftAccountScopes
Facebook Login Permissions - http://j.mp/FacebookPermissions
Google Authorization Scopes - http://j.mp/GoogleScopes
AuthN – Custom Scopes in the Server Flow
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Using Authentication & Authorization
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Support for Windows (WNS), Windows Phone (MPNS), iOS (APNS), Android (GCM)
Notification Hub provisioned alongside your Mobile Service
Register for Push either via the Client API or relayed through the server
Optionally provide tags with registration
Server sends platform-specific push messages to the Notification Hub along with optional tags to filter targets
Push Notifications
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1) The app requests and is issued a notification channel
2) The app registers this channel information and optionally some tags with the Mobile Service’s Notification Hub
3) An external event occurs that causes the Internet service to decide it should send notifications
4) The Internet service tells the Notification Hub to send notifications, optionally supplying one or more tags and optionally indicating a template to use
5) The Notification Hub iterates over its own list of applicable registrations, composes the payload appropriately, and sends the correct request to the notification services, managing failures, expired registrations, etc.
6) The notification services route notifications to the appropriate devices, where the payload and device settings determine how it should be displayed
Notification Hub Push Notification LifecycleApp App Service
Device OS Notification Service
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Notification Hub
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6
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5
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Push Notifications
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OtherOffline Sync in the Client
SignalR Integration for Real-Time Communication
Resource Broker for Azure Storage Access
Integration With Azure API Management (Apiphany)
Integration with SQL Azure Auditing
DataSupport for Hybrid Connections
Azure Tables, MongoDB
AuthNClient-Flow Authentication
Custom Scopes
Custom Authentication Provider
NotificationsNotification Hub Templates
Other Topics
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Pricing and Scaling Options
Free Instance Basic Instance Standard Instance
Price Free (up to 10 services/month)
$14.99/unit/month $139.99/unit/month
API Calls 500K/mo (prorated daily) 1.5M/unit/month (pr. daily) 15M/unit/month (pr. daily)
Active Devices
500 devices/day Unlimited
Scale 1 unit (no AutoScale) Up to 6 units Unlimited units
Notifications Free Tier included (up to 1M)
Basic Tier Incl (up to 10M) Standard Tier Incl (up to 10M)
Scheduled Jobs
1 scheduled job1 execution/hour
Up to 10 scheduled jobs50K job executions
Up to 10 scheduled jobs500K job executions
Other 60 CPU minutes/day165 MB outbound data/day
SQL Database
1 20 MB database (free for 12 months) can be created per subscription, pay for other DB tiers
Dev/Test Production Deployment
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Pricing and Scaling Options – Notification Hubs
Free Instance Basic Instance Standard Instance
Price Freefor 1 million pushes
$10 base charge / monthfor 10 million pushes+ $1 for 10M-100M+ $1 for 100M+
$200 base charge / monthfor 10 million pushes+ $10 for 10M-100M+2.50 for 100M+
Broadcast size
Up to 3,000 tags, up to 10,000 devices per tag Unlimited devices & tags
Active Devices
Unlimited
Other Queryable AudienceScheduled PushTelemetryBulk ImportMulti-Tenancy
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Code Samples:
Windows: http://j.mp/MobileServicesWindowsStoreSamples
Windows Phone: http://j.mp/MobileServicesWindowsPhoneSamples
iOS:http://j.mp/MobileServicesIOSSamples
Android:http://j.mp/MobileServicesAndroidSamples
Videos:
Channel 9 mini-videos:http://j.mp/MobileServicesChannel9Series (38)
Build 2014: http://j.mp/MobileServicesBuild2014 (3)
TechEd NA: http://j.mp/MobileServicesTENA2014 (3)
Documentation:
Tutorials / Resources: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/develop/mobile/
Team Blog(s): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/azuremobile/ (prior to
7/8/2014)
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/
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