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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

Creating an ARM template

In this section, we will be discussing how you can manage your Azure infrastructure as code and create reusable templates to manage and recreate your cloud environment.

One of the cornerstones of the modern DevOps approach is the ability to manage and provision the infrastructure for a distributed application with a declarative or even procedural set of definition files that can be versioned and stored together with the application source code. In this Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach, these files should be created in such a way that whatever the current state of the infrastructure, executing these resources should always lead to the same desired state (that is, idempotency).

In the Azure stack, the infrastructure resources created within a subscription are managed by a service called ARM. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) provides a consistent management tier that allows developers to interact with it to execute infrastructure...