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Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By : Can Bilgin
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Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By: Can Bilgin

Overview of this book

Are you a .NET developer who wishes to develop mobile solutions without delving into the complexities of a mobile development platform? If so, this book is a perfect solution to help you build professional mobile apps without leaving the .NET ecosystem. Mobile Development with .NET will show you how to design, architect, and develop robust mobile applications for multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, and UWP using Xamarin, .NET Core, and Azure. With the help of real-world scenarios, you'll explore different phases of application development using Xamarin, from environment setup, design, and architecture to publishing. Throughout the book, you'll learn how to develop mobile apps using Xamarin and .NET Standard. You'll even be able to implement a web-based backend composed of microservices with .NET Core using various Azure services including, but not limited to, Azure Active Directory, Azure Functions. As you advance, you'll create data stores using popular database technologies such as Cosmos DB and data models such as the relational model and NoSQL. By the end of this mobile application development book, you'll be able to create cross-platform mobile applications that can be deployed as cloud-based PaaS and SaaS.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Understanding .NET
5
Section 2: Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
9
Section 3: Azure Cloud Services
14
Section 4: Advanced Mobile Development
18
Section 5: Application Life Cycle Management

Analyzing data

Now that we have set up Application Insights telemetry collection on both the server side and the application side, we can try and make sense of this data.

While the Azure portal provides quick insights into application telemetry data, if we want to really dive into application data, the Application Insights portal should be used for analysis. In the Application Insights portal, data can be analyzed using the query language. The query language, also known as the Kusto language, provides advanced read-only querying features that can help organize data from multiple sources and render valuable insights into the performance and usage patterns of your application.

For instance, let's take a look at the following simple query, which is executed on our Xamarin telemetry data. We are returning the first 50 custom events that are exported from App Center:

customEvents 
| limit 50

These telemetry entries contain general telemetry-related data in the root:

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