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Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

By : Freato
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Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

By: Freato

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. This book starts by helping you set up a professional development environments in the cloud and integrating them with your local environment to achieve improved efficiency. You will move on to create front-end and back-end services, and then build cross-platform applications using Azure. Next you’ll get to grips with advanced techniques used to analyze usage data and automate billing operations. Following on from that, you will gain knowledge of how you can extend your on-premise solution to the cloud and move data in a pipeline. In a nutshell, this book will show you how to build high-quality, end-to-end services using Microsoft Azure. By the end of this book, you will have the skillset needed to successfully set up, develop, and manage a full-stack Azure infrastructure.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Building a mobile app with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova

Visual Studio 2015 (starting from the Community Edition) already contains Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO), and it is continuously updated as features are optimized and incremented. As with all projects in Visual Studio, we can create a new project from the menu item: File | New | Project:

Building a mobile app with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova

We can choose between two kinds of template groups, as in the JavaScript world the TypeScript superset language is also available. It is recommended to move on to TypeScript as we can obtain compiler and IDE support on strong typing.

The template is quite complex as it contains many different folders:

Building a mobile app with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova

www is the main folder as it contains the core application structure as on ordinary HTML5 + CSS3 + JavaScript web sites. Typically, index.html is the main page from which the application starts.

Dependencies is a folder containing external packages of JavaScript software components downloaded from Bower (http://bower.io/). It is...