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Andreas Zita
Andreas Zita

Reputation: 7560

Using Azure as storage for Windows Phone 7 apps

I am trying to figure out why I should use Azure. At the moment, I am using a generic web hosting provider to store my users accounts and data. It works pretty ok for me. I am a very small hobbyist so Azure may not be something for me(?). Anyhow, I now have a problem - I am wondering if Azure might be able to help me with. For my apps and sites, I usually have some kind of user account and data storage. For a new WP7-app, I am making I want to store the data online so I can access and modify it from my web site as well. Now I would like to remove the requirement for the user to create another new account for this little app. I realized that the user of the phone already must have a live-account (because its a requirement for using WP7). Could I use this somehow in combination with Azure to store the data specific to every user and then also access it from my web site?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 514

Answers (2)

Mamta D
Mamta D

Reputation: 6450

Yes, Azure can help you with that.

Have a look at this link:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-reasons-to-use-azure-for-your-cloud-apps/1282

Upvotes: -1

Eugenio Pace
Eugenio Pace

Reputation: 14212

This question is really less about Windows Azure, but more about authentication (and SSO)

Here are a couple options for using existing authentication credentials with WP7 and WIndows Azure (or any other hosting environment). Including LiveID, Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, etc.

Here's a quick description of some:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eugeniop/archive/2011/03/24/authentication-in-wp7-client-with-rest-services-part-i.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eugeniop/archive/2011/04/02/authentication-in-wp7-client-with-rest-services-part-ii.aspx

(also discussed here: How should I handle user identity for a Window Phone / WCF / ASP.NET MVC application?)

Upvotes: 3

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