Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the Microsoft Azure App services platform and how you can use this platform to create your cloud-based databases using RESTful web service APIs to handle all communication between the TrackMyWalks mobile application. You then set up and configured a Microsoft Azure App service to create a mobile app service, data connection, SQL Server database, and a WalkEntries table, and learned how to incorporate the Newtonsoft.Json NuGet package, as well as modify the WalkDataModel data model.

Next, you created a RestWebservice interface and class—which included a number of class instance methods that will be used to communicate with our database—so that you can perform CRUD operations to create, update, retrieve, and delete walk entries. You then made changes to the BaseViewModel class so that it included an AzureDatabase property in our RestWebService class, and then you made several changes to the underlying code-behind files to communicate with our SQL Server...