My latest DevRadio episode has been published – here are the details! Abstract: In today’s episode Brian Hitney demos for us the Messier Sky Object Explorer and Earthquake Starter Kits for your Windows 8 apps. Tune in as he walks us through both APIs and show us how easy it is get started building for Windows 8. Check out all the APIMASH Starter Kits here Download Earthquake APIMASH Starter Kit Download the Messier Sky Object Explorer APIMASH Starter Kit Next Steps: Step #1 – Downl...
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This post details features used by Earthquake Explorer, a Windows 8 app that displays earthquake information on Bing maps. Earthquake Explorer was based off of the Earthquakes mashup starter kit on github. Read part 1 here. In the first part, we created a Windows Azure Mobile Service to store data as a back end for our mashup. A big benefit of this approach is that it lets us filter/sort/query the data any way we’d like, and our application is now resilient against outages an...
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At long last! Our final installment to the series – check it out! About this Video: Wrapping up their “Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 apps” series Brian Hitney , Andrew Duthie and Peter Laudati, as they showoff some useful tips and tricks around authentication for your Windows Azure Mobile Server based apps. Tune in as they enable persistent login for a mobile service, and then discuss how we can get additional information about users from the configur...
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This post details features used by Earthquake Explorer, a Windows 8 app that displays earthquake information on Bing maps. Earthquake Explorer was based off of the Earthquakes mashup starter kit on github. Creating a mashup is pretty easy in Windows 8 – creating a great one requires a bit more work. In this case, I'm working with the USGS earthquake GeoJSON feeds, a very easy-to-use feed that contains earthquake information for either the past hour, day, week, or month. ...
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I’m really excited to be hosting a few events in the Microsoft Raleigh office focused on Windows 8 development. The first on revolves around our APIMASH starter kits – a great way to get started building mashup style applications in Windows 8, with templates and examples in both C# and HTML/JS. The other sessions are intro to gaming, developing some simple games using Construct2, and GameMaker/other frameworks as time allows. Here are the events/times: APIMASH: Tue 6/4/2013 from 10...
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Abstract: Brian Hitney and Peter Laudati review and demo some of the latest updates and features made to Windows Azure such as the general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service, Azure Web Sites, the Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET and the new licensing and pricing model. After watching this video, follow these next steps: Step #1 – Try Windows Azure: No cost. No obligation. 90-Day FREE trial. Step #2 – Download the Tools for Windows 8 App Development Step #3 – Start building your o...
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Abstract: In Part 6 of of their “Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 apps” series Brian Hitney and Andrew Duthie explore the world of built-in support for authentication in Windows Azure Mobile Services. Tune in as they quickly demo for us the process of adding authentication for your mobile and Windows Store apps. Check out the full article here. Watch Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 After watching this video, follow these next steps: Step #1 – Try Wi...
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We’re coming up on the annual Carolina Code Camp here in Charlotte and this year we thought it would fun to hold a hackathon leading up to the code camp, rather than simply run an all-day event at the code camp. Here’s your chance to develop a great app for Windows 8, elev8 your skillset, and potentially win some cool stuff Here are the details: The short version: develop a Windows 8 app, optionally attend some of our workshops, and submit it to the challenge. At some point you need to be...
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Abstract: In Part 5 of of their “Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 apps” series Peter Laudati, Brian Hitney and Andrew Duthie show us how to quickly add the ability to implement push notifications for his GameLeader Service using Azure Mobile Services. Check out the full article here. Watch Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 After watching this video, follow these next steps: Step #1 – Try Windows Azure: No cost. No obligation. 90-Day FREE trial. Step #2 – Downloa...
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Abstract: In Part 4 of of their “Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 apps” series Peter Laudati, Brian Hitney and Andrew Duthie show us how to build the same game leaderboard service on top of Windows Azure Mobile Services. Tune in as Andrew demos for us how to get started as well as lays out what some of the +/- are for using Azure Mobile Services for this kind of service. Check out the full article here. Watch Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 After watching this video, f...
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