My latest DevRadio episode has been published – here are the details! Abstract: In today’s episode Brian Hitney demos for us the Messier Sky Object Explorer and Earthquake Starter Kits for your Windows 8 apps. Tune in as he walks us through both APIs and show us how easy it is get started building for Windows 8. Check out all the APIMASH Starter Kits here Download Earthquake APIMASH Starter Kit Download the Messier Sky Object Explorer APIMASH Starter Kit Next Steps: Step #1 – Downl...
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This post details features used by Earthquake Explorer, a Windows 8 app that displays earthquake information on Bing maps. Earthquake Explorer was based off of the Earthquakes mashup starter kit on github. Read part 1 here. In the first part, we created a Windows Azure Mobile Service to store data as a back end for our mashup. A big benefit of this approach is that it lets us filter/sort/query the data any way we’d like, and our application is now resilient against outages an...
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At long last! Our final installment to the series – check it out! About this Video: Wrapping up their “Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 apps” series Brian Hitney , Andrew Duthie and Peter Laudati, as they showoff some useful tips and tricks around authentication for your Windows Azure Mobile Server based apps. Tune in as they enable persistent login for a mobile service, and then discuss how we can get additional information about users from the configur...
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This post details features used by Earthquake Explorer, a Windows 8 app that displays earthquake information on Bing maps. Earthquake Explorer was based off of the Earthquakes mashup starter kit on github. Creating a mashup is pretty easy in Windows 8 – creating a great one requires a bit more work. In this case, I'm working with the USGS earthquake GeoJSON feeds, a very easy-to-use feed that contains earthquake information for either the past hour, day, week, or month. ...
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