Sync Framework v4 is now Open Source, and ready to Connect any Device to SQL Server and SQL Azure
Microsoft has brought the power to synchronize data with either SQL Server on-premise or SQL Azure in the cloud to the world of mobility.
Silverlight
Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP: Windows Phone > Cloud
In this week’s scenario, I’ll illustrate how Windows Phone utilizes many of Gartner’s Mobile Enterprise Application Platform Critical Capabilities to connect to Microsoft’s Cloud services in Azure
Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP: Windows Phone > On Premise
In this week’s scenario, I’ll illustrate how Windows Phone utilizes many of Gartner’s Critical Capabilities to connect to Microsoft’s On-Premise infrastructure.
Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Uploading Data back to Azure
Looking back over the last 6 months of this series of articles, you’ve created wireless-efficient WCF REST + JSON Web Services in Azure to download data from SQL Azure tables to Windows Phone. You’ve maintained in-memory collections of objects in your own local NoSQL object cache. You’ve used LINQ to query those collections and bind … Read more
Confronting the Consumerization of IT with Microsoft MEAP
CIOs are asking for help in confronting the tidal wave of mobile devices entering the enterprise and IT departments have raised the white flag as attempts to block consumer-focused smartphones and tablets have failed. The Consumerization of IT has been a growing trend fueled by cloud-delivered services and compelling mobile devices with wireless capabilities. This … Read more
Reducing SQL Server I/O Contention during Sync :: Tip 2
All DBAs know that Joining tables on non-indexed columns is the most expensive operation SQL Server can perform.
Reducing SQL Server I/O Contention during Sync :: Tip 1
The act of tracking changes made by each SQL Server Compact or Silverlight sync subscriber can cause a lot of locking and blocking on the server.
Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Improving the In-Memory Database
About a month ago, I wrote an article intended to help you fill some of the gaps left by the missing SQL Server Compact database. Since your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight app is consuming an ObservableCollection of objects streaming down from Windows Azure and SQL Azure, it makes sense to organize those objects in a … Read more
Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Network Awareness
By now, you’ve heard me talk a lot about the role wireless data networks play when it comes to the success of your mobile application. They are unreliable, intermittent, highly latent and often slower than they should be due to overtaxed cellular towers and congested backhaul networks. Hopefully, you’ve built an app that tackles those … Read more
Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Working with an In-Memory Database
In my last article of this series, you finally got to consume wireless-friendly WCF REST + JSON Services from both Windows Server and Windows Azure with data coming from SQL Server/SQL Azure. You now have an ObservableCollection of Customer objects residing in a Singleton on your Windows Phone 7 device. This Singleton looks similar to … Read more
Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Consuming an Azure WCF REST + JSON Service
In my last two articles, I showed you how to build WCF REST services using Visual Studio 2010 that can reside on-premise in Windows Server 2008 or in the Cloud in Windows Azure. Furthermore, I demonstrated pulling data from a table in SQL Server/SQL Azure. I serialized .NET Objects using lightweight JSON to speed data … Read more
Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Moving your WCF REST + JSON Service to Windows Azure
Ever since my last blog post where I demonstrated how to create lightweight WCF REST + JSON services for consumption by Windows Phone 7, I’ve received many requests from folks wanting to know how to do the same thing from Windows Azure. Using Visual Studio 2010, the Azure Development Fabric and SQL Server, I will … Read more
Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Building a WCF REST + JSON Service
Let’s start at the server and work our way to the phone. Anyone who knows me is probably aware that I come from a wireless background so I’m always obsessed with things like coverage, bandwidth and latency when it comes to building mobile systems. The only thing I assume in mobile development is frequent network … Read more
Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Released
Just wanted to help spread the word that was posted by Brandon Watson earlier this morning on our Windows Phone Developer Blog. Go download the new Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta. The term “Beta” is understood to mean that things are close to being finished. Well, that’s what we mean anyway. This Beta release represents … Read more
Don’t forget to Encrypt your Windows Phone 7 Data
Whether you’re targeting Mobile Line of Business apps for the Enterprise or B2C apps for consumers, ensuring that sensitive data is encrypted is a must. These days, I can’t have a serious discussion with a CIO unless I can assure her that my mobile device can protect data-in-transit and data-at-rest. You already know that Windows … Read more