In the Azure App Service Mobile Client Offline Sync: Do not use the CreatedAt field if you are wanting to display the date of an entry. With offline sync, the CreatedAt field for a new record that has not been synced is null. If you set CreatedAt to DateTime.Now or another value, on sync, CreatedAt […]
Update Azure App Service Mobile Apps Beta to GA (General Availability) for Production
Microsoft has gone GA (General Availability) with the new Azure App Services Mobile Apps which means it is available for production use! To update to the latest NuGet packages, you’ll need to remove the WindowsAzure.MobileServices* packages from your projects and add the new Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Client* (currently 2.0.0) packages. No code changes are necessary because even though they changed […]
Local Debugging with User Authentication of an Azure Mobile App Service
Local debugging of an Azure Mobile App Service can be a real timesaver, however, using provider authentication such as Facebook or Google throws a wrench in process. In the past, I resorted to logging on the server side and viewing the streaming logs. This was cumbersome and not to mention time consuming. Thankfully, that can […]
Editing a list item in SharePoint 2010 causes my appended column data to disappear or get overwritten
You’re likely here because you have a SharePoint list that contains a multi-line text column with appending enabled. The issue as it presents itself is that your list items are losing the appended column data when someone updates the item. It may be that the appended data is completely gone or that it loses all but the […]
doubleTwist Automatically Mounts SD Card on Android Phone Despite Choosing Charge Only
I recently made the move from the iPhone 3GS to the HTC EVO with Sprint. There are plenty of articles out there comparing Apple’s phones to those running Android so I will leave any comparisons out of this post and stick to the problem I was trying to solve. As I was learning the nuances […]