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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

Chapter 17: Deploying Azure Modules

Azure services are bundled into so-called resource groups for easy management and deployment. Each resource group can be represented by an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template, which, in turn, can be used for multiple configurations and specific environment deployments. In this chapter, we will be configuring the ARM template for Azure-hosted web services, as well as other cloud resources (such as Cosmos DB, Notification Hubs, and others) that we have used previously so that we can create deployments using the Azure DevOps build-and-release pipeline. Introducing configuration values into the templates and preparing them to create staging environments is our main focus in this chapter.

The following sections will take you through the creation of a parameterized, environment-specific resource group template:

  • Creating an ARM template
  • ARM template concepts
  • Using Azure DevOps for ARM templates
  • Deploying...