This Toolkit is now deprecated and is now

superseded by Windows Azure Mobile Services

The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone provided developers with the first iteration of support for building backend services for Windows Phone apps using Windows Azure.  The main areas of feedback we received from mobile developers was that they wanted a turn-key set of services for common functionality such as notifications, auth, and data.   Windows Azure Mobile Services directly reflects this feedback by enabling developers to simply provision, configure, and consume scalable backend services. The downloads for this toolkit will be removed on the week of Feb 1st 2013 and all future improvements will be channeled into Windows Azure Mobile Services rather than this toolkit. 

To get started with Mobile Services, sign up for a Windows Azure account and receive 10 free Mobile Services.

Content

• Overview
• Setup and Configuration
• Toolkit Content
• NEW: Architecture Diagrams
• NEW: FAQs
• Getting Started
  • Creating a New Windows Phone Cloud Application
  • Running and Going Through the Windows Phone Cloud Application
    • Starting the Application
    • Authenticating the User (ASP.NET Membership Authentication)
    • Authenticating the User (ACS Authentication)
    • Sending Microsoft Push Notifications
    • Sending Apple Push Notifications
    • Working with Tables, Blobs and Queues
    • Working with SQL Azure Database
  • NEW: BabelCam
  • NEW: Tweet Your Blobs
  • NEW: CRUD SQL Azure
• User Authentication
  • How to Choose Between ASP.NET Membership and ACS
  • How to Obtain Namespace and Management Keys
• Deploy Your Services to Windows Azure
• NEW: How to obtain a Project Hawaii Application ID
• NEW: How to obtain a Bing Application Id
• NEW: How to obtain a bitly Username and API Key
• NEW: How to create a SQL Azure Database Server
• Troubleshooting
• Change Log

Videos

	Windows Azure Toolkit for Devices: Now With Android! by Wade Wegner
	Getting Started with the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 by Wade Wegner
	Getting Started with ACS and the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 by Vittorio Bertocci

If you have questions or feedback, please send an email to waztoolkitwp7@microsoft.com.