Azure Mobile Apps: .NET Client SDK

With Azure Mobile Apps you can add a scalable backend to your connected client applications in minutes.

Getting Started

The Azure Mobile Apps .NET Client code is part of Azure Mobile Apps - an offline capable data service. To use, add the Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Client package, and optionally, the Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Client.SQLiteStore packages to your project.

If you are new to Azure Mobile Apps, you can get started by following our tutorials for connecting to your hosted cloud backend with a Xamarin.Forms client or Windows client. To learn more about the client library, see How to use the managed client for Azure Mobile Apps.

Supported platforms

• .NET Standard 2.0
• Xamarin.Android 9.0 (up to Android API level 29)
• Xamarin.iOS 1.0 (up to iOS 14.0)
• UAP 10.0 (builds 16299 - 19041)

Building the Library

Prerequisites

The SDK requires Visual Studio 2019.

Download Source Code

To get the source code of our SDKs and samples via git just type:

git clone https://github.com/Azure/azure-mobile-apps-net-client.git
cd ./azure-mobile-apps-net-client

Building and Referencing the SDK

1. Open the Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Client.sln solution file in Visual Studio 2019.
2. Use Solution -> Restore NuGet Packages...
3. Press F6 to build the solution.

Running the Unit Tests

The following test suites under the 'unittests' directory contain the unit tests:

• MobileClient.Tests
• SQLiteStore.Tests

You can run the unit tests using the xUnit test runner. Ensure you run the unit tests prior to submitting a PR.

Running the E2E Tests

Before running the E2E Test Suites, you must deploy the E2E Test Server, which can be obtained from the azure/azure-mobile-apps-net-server repository.

• Download the repository
• Open the ServerSDK solution.
• Build the ZumoE2EServerApp project.
• Create an Azure App Service, with a connected SQL Azure database.
• Set the MS_TableConnectionString app setting in your Azure App Service to the connection string for the SQL Azure database.
• Deploy the ZumoE2EServerApp to the App Service.

Once complete, you can run the E2E tests. Compile one of the projects (for iOS or Android) in the e2etests folder, and run it on a device (which can be an emulator or simulator, if you wish).

Future of Azure Mobile Apps

Microsoft is committed to fully supporting Azure Mobile Apps, including support for the latest OS release, bug fixes, documentation improvements, and community PR reviews. Please note that the product team is not currently investing in any new feature work for Azure Mobile Apps. We highly appreciate community contributions to all areas of Azure Mobile Apps.

Useful Resources

• Quickstarts
• Samples
• Azure Mobile Developer Center.
• StackOverflow: tag azure-mobile-services.
• Instructions on enabling VisualStudio to load symbols from SymbolSource

Contribute Code or Provide Feedback

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

If you would like to become an active contributor to this project please follow the instructions provided in Microsoft Azure Projects Contribution Guidelines.

If you encounter any bugs with the library, please file an issue in the Issues section of the project.