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Using Azure Storage Services from an iPhone App - Part 2: Building the User Interface

By: Bart Tubalinal Posted: February 19, 2012 at 4:42 PM

This post has moved. New location Future updates to the series will only be posted to the new location. Intro This is part two of the first series of posts I’m writing on developing native mobile apps using the Windows Azure platform. In the first part, I covered the basic setup of my azure storage, I walked through the steps of building the iOS Windows Azure Toolkit and using it in a project, and I wrote the code to use the toolkit in my model classes for the SpeakEasy app, a fictitious ... [more]

Using Azure Storage Services from an iPhone App - Part 1: Table and Blob setup, Azure iOS toolkit, and Model Classes

By: Bart Tubalinal Posted: February 18, 2012 at 8:11 PM

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This post has moved. New location Future updates to the series will only be posted to the new location. Intro A few weeks ago, I posted a video and a follow-up blog on why I think using Windows Azure as a middle-tier or backend platform for mobile is compelling. Remaining on the topic of Azure and mobile, I wanted to write a series of blog posts that show you how to use various Azure services to build a native mobile app. Through this series, I’m going to build an iPhone app called SpeakE ... [more]

SharePoint 2010: Getting User Information in InfoPath Form Services

By: Andrew Schwenker Posted: February 15, 2012 at 4:35 PM

Situation So you’ve got this nice InfoPath form, and you want to pre-populate it with user information. This means you’ll need to somehow get the user’s login information into the InfoPath form. Unfortunately, there’s no simple or straightforward way to do this. Several blogs reference just calling the form’s User property and everything magically works in SharePoint. I can tell you from personal experience that this isn’t the case. There are other blogs saying to use a new field in the fo ... [more]

SharePoint 2010: Require Authentication for InfoPath Forms from an Anonymous SharePoint Site

By: Andrew Schwenker Posted: February 3, 2012 at 10:15 AM

Whether you love or hate InfoPath forms, they occasionally do make things easier. However, the form viewer page comes from the FormServerPage type, which inherits directly from System.Web.UI.Page, meaning that it permits anonymous users to view the page and, consequentially, your form. None of the SharePoint access permissions, aside from folder-level permissions have any affect. Unfortunately, the page is located in the root layouts folder, so changing those permissions aren’t possible. Y ... [more]

Windows Azure as a Mobile Backend Platform

By: Bart Tubalinal Posted: February 2, 2012 at 8:56 PM

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Today, I posted a video blog discussing why using Windows Azure as a mobile backend platform is an attractive option. I wanted to quickly summarize the contents of that video and also supplement it with some helpful links. Summary Backend platform selection is important because, unless you’re talking about the most trivial of apps, most mobile applications will have some need to connect to backend services and data. It’s important to select a platform that’s flexible, scalable to your app an ... [more]

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