Announcing Azure Mobile Service managed client SDK 1.3 alpha with Offline support

Today we’re pleased to announce pre-release version 1.3 of Azure Mobile Service managed client SDK that includes frequently requested feature of offline.

We've heard from you that you want a fast and snappy experience in your apps, to be able to download data locally on the devices and query it the same way as you are used to. You want to be able to modify the data even if there is no connectivity and you want to synchronize the changes when the app is online.  

With this release we’re introducing set of APIs that will make it very easy for you to build apps that are fast and responsive and work without connectivity. We encourage you to try out the new nuget package that we've released Azure Mobile Services SQLiteStore 1.0.0-alpha and give us feedback about the API surface. We’re keen to listen to your feedback and improve the APIs to address all your offline and occasionally connected app needs.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting more content and guidance regarding how to use these APIs. For now please refer to the following sample and tutorials:

• Azure Mobile Services - Get Started with Offline

• Azure Mobile Services - Handling Conflicts with Offline

• Azure Mobile Service sample - Insurance agency

Please feel free to contact us on twitter @AzureMobile and forums for feedback.

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 07, 2014
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• Anonymous
  April 07, 2014
  Xamarin support is not in this pre-release version, we are actively looking at what it will take to add support.Push will send the crud operations you did to the table up to the server only.  So a push on an empty db will be a noop.  If you did 2 inserts with the syncTable class, and 2 directly using SQLite, only the first 2 would be sent to the server on a push.
• Anonymous
  April 07, 2014
  Thanks Phillip!
• Anonymous
  April 10, 2014
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• Anonymous
  April 11, 2014
  Hi Rajesh, the sample has been updated. There was a minor breaking change in the SDK (from version 1.3.0-alpha to 1.3.0-alpha2) where the operation object passed to the sync handler now has a reference to the table object instead of just the table name.
• Anonymous
  May 15, 2014
  That's very good, it's what I need for a project is going to start soon. But when the stable release planned?
• Anonymous
  May 21, 2014
  Ilya, we don't yet have a timeline to share for the stable release, but I can tell you that we are actively iterating based on feedback from customers such as yourself. :)  If you find bugs or feature gaps, we're really interested in hearing about it, so that we can improve the experience and finalize the design.
• Anonymous
  July 14, 2014
  I just test the package Azure Mobile Services SQLite Store version 1.0.0-alpha3.When I add the package to my project, that can not be build, and error is below:Error CS1684: Reference to type System.IDisposable' claims it is defined assemblySystem.Runtime, Version=2.6.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a', but it could not be found (CS1684)