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"Today we released a number of great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: HTML5/JS (CORS) Client + PhoneGap + Windows Phone 7.5 + .NET Portable Library support Web Sites: Mercurial Source Control + Dropbox Deployment support HDInsight: New service that enables you to easily deploy and manage Hadoop Clusters on Azure

All of these improvements are now available to start using immediately (note: some services are still in preview). Below are more details on them: Mobile Services: HTML5/JS Client (CORS), PhoneGap, Windows Phone 7.5

Today we are adding support to enable pure HTML5/JS clients (and PhoneGap apps) as well as Windows Phone 7.5 clients to use Windows Azure Mobile Services as a backend. This comes in addition to the new Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services we released two weeks ago (as well as the Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and iOS support we had earlier).

HTML5/JS Clients

You can now connect both HTML5 web client apps as well as Apache Cordova/PhoneGap apps to your Mobile Services, and use Windows Azure for both data storage and authentication. We are delivering this via: New Mobile Services web client library that supports IE8+ browsers, current versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, plus PhoneGap 2.3.0+. It offers the same data querying and storage APIs support we have in other native SDKs, and allows easy user authentication via any of the four identity providers supported by Mobile Services (Microsoft Account, Google, Facebook, and Twitter). Please use the GitHub issue tracker to report any issues, and our forum to get help. Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support to enable your Mobile Service to accept cross-domain Ajax requests. You can now configure a whitelist of allowed domains for your Mobile Service using the Windows Azure management portal.

To get started, create a mobile service in the Windows Azure Management Portal and open the Quickstart tab. You can now select “HTML” and find the steps to create a new HTML5/JS client or add a backend to an existing one:

You can then continue with this tutorial for the remaining steps and build a simple HTML5 todo list app (that runs entirely in a browser) in under 5 minutes.

When deploying the HTML5 front-end app to a production environment, make sure to add the host name of the website you use to host it to your Windows Azure Mobile Services’ Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) whitelist using the Configure tab as shown below:

Visit the Windows Azure Mobile dev center and read this tutorial to learn more about working with server-side data, or this one if you want to learn more about authenticating users.

Windows Phone 7.5 Support and a new C# Client Library on NuGet

A few days ago we published a preview of our next version of the Mobile Services C# client library on NuGet. The goal of this pre-release is to give Mobile Services developers an early look at the new features we are planning for our next C# SDK update and an opportunity to try them out ahead of time. Some of the great new features we have added include: Portable Library Support: We have consolidated our Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 clients on top of a single codebase using Portable Libraries. This enables us to reach a variety of new client platforms, as well as enable you to call Mobile Services from your ASP.NET and .NET server backend. Windows Phone 7.5 support: With the move to Portable Libraries, we are also enabling support for Windows Phone 7.5 Json.NET and HttpClient: We migrated our implementation to use the latest and most flexible HTTP components to enable maximum robustness and extensibility.

Note: Today’s drop is a pre-release. For production apps we recommend continuing to use the “stable” Mobile Service client libraries for .NET available for download here.

Keep Giving Us Feedback

Please continue to visit our uservoice page to let us know what you’d like to see added next (today’s release added 3 of the top 5 asks in uservoice!). Email us to show off your app, and ask questions in our forum whenever you run into a problem. Web Sites: Mercurial and Dropbox Deployment Support

Today’s release also includes a number of deployment/publishing enhancements to Windows Azure Web Sites:

Mercurial Source Control Support

You can now use Mercurial (Hg) repositories when setting up continuous deployment of your Websites from your CodePlex or Bitbucket repositories. This is in addition to the TFS, CodePlex, Git and GitHub source control provider support that we previously supported.

Today’s release also includes improved UI that makes it even easier to setup deployment from source-control. Simply click the “Setup deployment from source control” link on your web-site dashboard, and a new wizard will appear that makes it trivial to walkthrough setting up publishing endpoints using a variety of source control providers and sites. For example, below is how you could choose to enable source code deployment from a public or private Mercurial (Hg) repository you might have on Bitbucket:

Dropbox Deployment Support

Windows Azure also now supports site/app deployment from Dropbox to Web sites, making website deployment as easy as copying files to a folder on your local computer. To enable this from the Windows Azure management portal, click the “Set up deployment from source control” link on your Web site dashboard, choose Dropbox and authorize the connection, and then choose a Dropbox sub-folder to synchronize:

You can then simply copy your source files to the Dropbox sub-folder on your local computer and press the “Sync” button in the Windows Azure Portal to deploy the files. Windows Azure will automatically build sources as needed, similar to Git or TFS based deployments. Also, the deployment history tab in the portal will keep track of your deployments and enables you to re-deploy any previous deployment with the click of a button.

Watch this 2 minute screencast to see how easy it now is to deploy web sites to Windows Azure using Dropbox.

Improved UI for Managing Source Control Deployments

In addition to the new setup wizard for source control deployment, today’s Windows Azure release also includes some other nice enhancements to the source control UI. Deployment history in the management portal now accurately reflects which source control provider is connected for continuous deployment, such as TFS, CodePlex, GitHub, or Bitbucket. It is also now possible to disconnect from an already connected source provider on a web-site in order to set up a different one (previously you had to delete the site to do this).

TFS Certificate Renewal

It’s also now possible to renew the certificate used by Team Foundation Service for continuous deployment directly from the Windows Azure management portal. To do this, click the “Renew TFS certificate” link on either the Dashboard or Quick Start page.

Support for Regenerating the Publish Profile

Today you can download a publish profile from the Web Sites dashboard. Once that profile is downloaded, the credentials are basically good forever. We understand that this is not optimal. To address this, with today’s release we are introducing a new quick glance command in the dashboard called Reset publish profile credentials. When clicked, you will get a confirmation for resetting the credentials and the credentials are regenerated. New HDInsight Server: Deploy and Manage Hadoop Clusters on Azure

Today we also released a public preview of the new HDInsight Service for Windows Azure. HDInsight provides everything you need to quickly deploy, manage and use Hadoop clusters running on Windows Azure.

If you have a Windows Azure account you can request access to the HDInsight Preview and then easily create an HDInsight cluster within the Windows Azure Management Portal. Within the Windows Azure Management Portal click the New button and select the new HDInsight service to create a Hadoop cluster. Specify a name for the cluster, a password for logging into the cluster and the size of cluster you need:

Note: a storage account is required to create a cluster and in the current public preview the storage account must reside in the East US region. The Azure Storage account you associate with your cluster is where you will store the data that you will analyze in HDInsight.

HDInsight Clusters

A cluster will take a few minutes to create (as part of creating it will configure the necessary Virtual Machines that together make up your Hadoop cluster). The Hadoop components installed as part of an HDInsight cluster are outlined here. Once the cluster is created, you can drill into the dashboard view to see the cluster quick glance screen. This quick glance allows you to see the basic information about your cluster and gives you a simple method to connect to the cluster (just click the Manage button at the bottom of the dashboard).

When you connect to the cluster you’ll see a page that contains a number of tiles that provide information about the cluster and can be used to perform additional tasks:

The Create Job tile opens a MapReduce job submission form that you can use to submit MapReduce jobs as JAR files. The Interactive Console tile opens a console that lets you execute Javascript and Hive queries directly against your cluster. The Samples title includes samples that you can use to get started. Summary

The above features are now available to start using immediately (note: some of the services are still in preview). If you don’t already have a Windows Azure account, you can sign-up for a free trial and start using them today. Visit the Windows Azure Developer Center to learn more about how to build apps with it!

Hope this helps,

Scott

P.S. In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu"

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"Today’s Fun Wednesday project is one that’s going to help you great cool games, free! These HTML5 games can be exported to Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and other platforms as well.Construct 2

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How hard is it to create a Windows 8 App? I had my first, using one of the sample projects, in under 3 minutes…How to make a Windows 8 app

Creating a game for Windows 8 is easy with Construct 2. If you haven’t already, download the Free edition and get going with the Beginner’s guide!

You might also be interested in exporting to Windows Phone 8 as well (which must be done separately).

Setup

You’ll need Windows 8 (RTM or newer – it won’t work on the Release Preview or older). You then need to install Visual Studio 2012 Express on Windows 8.

If you’re installing Windows 8 and have never installed an operating system before, please take care during the setup. You may need to adjust BIOS settings and format or partition a disk. Making a mistake could cause data loss or result in a system that is difficult to recover. If you’re not sure you should ask someone for help while setting up, since the steps involved are out of the scope of this guide, and be certain to make backups of any important data beforehand.

Development

You’ll need to add touch controls. See this tutorial on touch controls for help on that.

Different devices have different size screens. See supporting multiple screen sizes.

You can add the Windows 8 object to your project to take integrate with Windows 8 specific features like snap and roaming storage.

Exporting from Construct 2

First, ensure your project has the right Name, Description and Author properties set, since these will be used in the exported app.

In the Export Project dialog, choose Export for Windows 8 and follow the next steps as you would for exporting an ordinary project.

In the export directory you will find a Visual Studio project. Note there are three image files for the app icons, app-logo.png, app-smalllogo.png and app-storelogo.png. You should replace these with your own images but keep them exactly the same dimensions.

The main project file has the extension .sln (solution). Double-click it in Windows 8 and Visual Studio should open it.

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Yeah, you read that right, the export results in a Visual Studio Solution.

I install Construct 2, created a new Space Blaster project, exported to Windows 8, set my Publisher cert and BAM! I had my Win8 Modern UI game up and playing. That’s pretty cool…

Start:

Create:

Export:

Build:

Play!

Yep, you have a ready for the Windows Store game…

What kind of games can you create? Just check out the arcade, http://www.scirra.com/arcade. But be careful as you might not see the light of day for a while… there’s some pretty funny games, for example the NSFW My Irrational Fear of Unicorns had me laughing out loud.

What? You want even more power and capabilities? You want to mesh this with the very cool Azure Mobile Services? Well I’ve got a plugin just for you…Azure Mobile Services Plugin for Construct 2

This plugin for Construct 2 makes it easy to integrate the power of Azure Mobile Services into your games for Windows 8. Saving to the cloud is a great way to seamlessly store data for achievements, leaderboards, save games, user data and lots more!Features:ConditionsDataOn Query Completed On Record Deleted On Record Inserted On Record Updated Data Error HandlingOn Query Error On Record Delete Error On Record Insert Error On Record Update Error IdentityIs User Authenticated On Authenticate Success On Logged Out Identity Error HandlingOn Authenticate Error ActionsDataDelete Existing Record Insert New Record Query Table Update Existing Record IdentityAuthenticate User Log Out ExpressionsLastData LastFullName LastUserID

That enough to keep you busy this weekend? I think so…"

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Windows resources will be added in the near future, but 50 percent of the focus will remain on Windows Phone. But what about the giveaways? The first is a Syncfusion Essential Studio for Windows Phone (worth $99) for free. To be able to take advantage of the added controls, all that’s required is a purchase of the GeekChamp "Windows Phone Toolkit in Depth" 3rd edition e-book. If you’ve already got a copy, you’re also eligible for the giveaway. 1-year’s worth of support and updates is included.

To help provide an incentive for developers to create development resources for Windows Phone and Windows 8, the GeekChamp team will be giving away a component of choice to those who write up a development article. Component authors will be compensated in the giveaway so no one loses out. It’s a pretty sweet deal and one we’re sure will be taken advantage of.

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