By Simon|Android, Azure, Microsoft, Mobile, Neudesic
At the end of August, Microsoft published the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android. At Neudesic, the partner behind developing the both toolkits for iOS and Android, we’ve been working with customers that use the toolkit to connect mobile applications to the cloud. One of the recent requests however has been to provide a walkthrough of [...]
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In late July, Microsoft announced availability of a new build of Mango, build 7712 – also commonly known as the RC Build. Given that we are close to RTM, yet it may still take carriers some time before deploying Mango to your device, you might be itching to try out the new bits. If you [...]
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Last week, Microsoft released v1.2 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS. As development partner for the toolkit, Neudesic has been working with several customers on implementing ACS for iPhone and iPad applications. Due to popular demand, I wanted to share a short overview of how simple it is to get this up and working [...]
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Following a few recent presentations, I’ve had a couple of people ask how I run Visual Studio on the Mac. You’ll be sad to hear that I don’t have a special version of Visual Studio for Mac OSX – instead I am using VMWare Fusion 3.1 to run a copy of Windows 7 in a [...]
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Thanks to everyone that came to my session at TechEd 2011 yesterday – it was a great crowd, and the presentation was a lot of fun to put together. My apologies for any confusion with the title (i.e. not making it explicit that it was a developer talk in the title) – this will definitely [...]
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In my MIX11 session last week I demonstrated how to create push notifications to iPhone and iPad devices from Wndows Azure. I’ve put together this blog post to share more detail and the source code for how this works. Firstly, if you haven’t already, you will need to register your iPhone/iPad application for push notifications. [...]
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I’m on the road for the next few weeks, visiting locations across the US, holding a series of “Mobility lunches”. These lunches are a great way to get up to speed with what mobility means for your organization – from the current state of the mobile market, handsets, tablets, through to building applications and solutions [...]
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Thanks to all that came to my session at MIX11 last week – it was a lot of fun to put together despite a couple of demo glitches! You can now view the recording of this online, as well as browse and download the slides below. I’ll be sharing the source code for the demos [...]
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Just in case you are interested, I will be presenting at MIX11 next week in Vegas. Mix has always been one of my favorite conferences, and I’m looking forward to speaking. Here are the details: EXT18 – Developing iPhone and iPad Apps that Leverage Windows Azure You are building apps for the iPhone/iPad, yet you [...]
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Thanks to all that attended the Neudesic Mobility Webcast this morning on “Building solutions on the Microsoft platform that target iPhone, iPad, and Android devices”. It was fun to put together, and even though we went over time, the feedback was great. For those that couldn’t make it, we’ve posted the recording of the session, [...]
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