Chapter 12. Making Our App Social Using the Twitter API

In the previous chapter, you learned about the Microsoft Azure App Services Platform, and how you can leverage this platform to create your cloud-based databases, using RESTful Webservice APIs that will be used to handle all communication between the TrackMyWalks mobile app. You learned how to set up and configure a Microsoft Azure App Service to create a Mobile AppService, Data connection, SQL Server database, and the WalkEntries table, prior to incorporating the Newtonsoft.Json NuGet package and modifying the WalkDataModel data model.

Next, you created a RestWebservice Interface and Class that included a number of class instance methods used to communicate with our TrackMyWalks SQL Server database, so that you could perform CRUD operations to Create, Update, Retrieve, and Delete walk entries, and modified the BaseViewModel class to include an AzureDatabase property with our RestWebService class. You also made some changes to the underlying...