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2. Before we can save the data, we need to add reference to
‘Windows Azure Mobile Services Managed Client’. This is a simple
wrapper to make HTTP calls easy for you. We already had it
specified as a pre-requisite, so if you didn’t have it installed yet, go
grab either from Nuget now and add reference to it in the project.
You can get it from Nuget as follows
Note the Mobile Service URL before clicking on the ‘Manage Keys’
button
5. Clicking on Manage Keys will give us a popup that shows us the
Application Key and Master Key. We need only the Application Key
for now.
PM> Install-Package WindowsAzure.MobileServices -Version 0.2.0
Or if you install the VSIX, you can add a reference as follows
3. To save data into the above table, we create a
FakeTweetMessage class
6. Posting Data to Azure Mobile Service
a. In the App.xaml.cs insert the following code
class FakeTweetMessage
{
public int Id { get; set; }
[DataMember(Name = “myId”)]
public string MyId { get; set; }
[DataMember(Name = “fakeTweetText”)]
public int FakeTweetText { get; set; }
[DataMember(Name = “toId”)]
public string ToId { get; set; }
}
4. Next we setup the Azure Client to talk to our Mobile Service.
To do this, we first get the URL and the Application key from the
Service Dashboard.
public static MobileServiceClient MobileService = new
MobileServiceClient(
“https://zumofaketweetservice.azure-mobile.net/”,
“Replace with the Application Key from Above”
);
b. In the MainPage.xaml.cs, we will introduce the following:
private IMobileServiceTable
fakeTweetMessages = App.MobileService.
GetTable();
c. Add a Button Click handler for the Send Message button as
follows
private async void SendMessageButton_Click(object sender,
RoutedEventArgs e)
{
await fakeTweetMessages.InsertAsync(new FakeTweetMessage
{
MyId = MyIdText.Text,
FakeTweetText = FakeTweetTextBox.Text,
ToId = ToIdTextBox.Text,
});
}
d. At this point, if we run the Application and provide some data
in the Text Boxes and hit Send Message button, we’ll end up with
data in our Azure Table as follows.
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