You probably wouldn’t expect this blog post from me as I run away from building any web apps, but I have been messing around with ASP.NET Core inside of Visual Studio for Mac. I thought it would be really cool to take our default app for items and deploy it to an Azure Linux based App Service. Because… why not?!?! Also, I will make Hanselman proud.So, first things first.. The backend.My Items on ASP.NET CoreIf you head over to your Visual Studio for Mac you will see a “Connected App” temp…
James Montemagno
A while back I wrote an app called MyShoppe, which served as a sample application that would enable any business owner with multiple locations to build an app to help their customers get store information and leave feedback. This was more than just a sample application as I built the original application for my brother who has several stores in Texas. The Old Backend The app isn’t overly complex. I leveraged Azure Mobile Apps (at the time Mobile Services) as a backend to do online/offline sync w…
James Montemagno
You might have noticed that both @ChrisNTR and myself have been on the .NET Rocks Roadshow. We have been talking to awesome devs all over the US about Xamarin, PCL, and Azure all wrapped up into an amazing demo (full source code there). One common question that has come up is that while a lot of people have the demo up and running they are having a hard time getting Azure + PCL integrated into their own project. So let’s set one up from scratch. Pre-requisites: I am going to be using VS 20…
James Montemagno
