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The Connected Services workflow brings the Azure portal workflow into Visual Studio for Mac, so you don’t have to leave your project to add services.

This walkthrough shows how to add an Azure backend service, which brings cloud data storage, authentication, and push notifications to a cross-platform Xamarin.Forms Portable Class Library (PCL) application.

  1. Start by double-clicking on the Connected Services node in the solution, which brings up the Services Gallery.This is a list of all the available services for the application type. Select a service (such as Mobile backend with Azure App Service) by clicking on it.

  2. The Service Details Page has a description of the service and the dependencies to be installed.Click the Add button to add the dependencies to the app:

  3. The dependencies need to be added to both the PCL and the platform-specific projects to work.Select the checkboxes to add the service to every project that will reference it (either directly or indirectly):

  4. Choose Accept on the License Acceptance dialogs for the NuGet packages.There may be two dialogs to accept, one for the MobileClient and dependencies, and another for SQLiteStore, which is required for offline data sync:

  5. Once the dependencies are added, you'll be asked to log in with the account you want to use to communicate with Azure.If you’re already logged in with a Microsoft ID, Visual Studio for Mac will attempt to fetch your Azure subscriptionsand any app services associated with them. If you do not have any subscriptions, you can add one by signing up for a free trial or purchasing a subscription plan in the Azure portal.

  6. Select an app service from the list. This will fill the template code for the MobileServiceClient object with the corresponding URL of the app service on Azure:

    If there are no services listed, click the New button (see Step 9.)

  7. Copy the template code for the MobileServiceClient into the PCL. The file location is not important, so long as there is only one instance of it.The recommended approach is to create an AzureService class that handles all Azure interactions and uses the MobileServiceClient:

  8. Follow the documentation in Next Steps to add data, offline sync, authentication, and push notifications to your app:

  9. If you don’t have any existing app services, you can create new services from within Visual Studio for Mac.Click the New button in the bottom left of the services list to open the New App Service dialog:

A new service requires the following parameters:

  • App service name – unique name/id for the plan
  • Subscription – the subscription you’d like to use to pay for the service
  • Resource Group – a way or organizing all your Azure resources for a project. Option to use existing or create a new one. If this is your first Azure service, create a new one.
  • Service Plan – Determines the location and cost of any resources that use it. Option to use existing or create a new one. If this is your first Azure service, use the default one or create a new one in the free tier (F1).

Visit the Mobile apps documentation for more information.

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Here we show how to use external SOAP web services from within Microsoft Visual Studio versions 2005, 2008 and 2010.

The scope of this article extends only to XML SOAP web services which may have been created in Visual Studio (and are usually identified by the asmx extension at the end of the URL).

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In order to demonstrate the use of external web services, we will use T2A’s SOAP service, which was created using Visual Studio 2005.

All code examples here are in C#.

If you’ve never made use of an external web service from Visual Studio, you’re about to discover just how easy it is. In comparison, parsing XML yourself can be quite time consuming, even using a powerful XML reader or parser. A SOAP web service allows Visual Studio to discover how its methods operate (their inputs and return formats) and using this information, allows your IDE to create code within your project, to allow your code to seamlessly use the external service, just as if it was a class in your own code.

In order to simply demonstrate the use of T2A’s SOAP service, we created a C# console application. The IDE created an empty project.

We then “told” our project about the web service. We right clicked on the project in the solution explorer, and clicked on Add Web Reference. This can be viewed below, for our project ws_test_2005:-

A new window opened, in which we specified the location of the web service, in this case, https://t2a.co/soap. We clicked the go button:-

The IDE was able to identify the web service. We named the web service t2a. We then clicked on add reference as seen below.

The IDE then created the necessary code to allow our simple project to use the external web service. You can see the information about the added web reference in the right hand pane below:-

We then created a simple console application which uses the T2A soap service, specifically the geo_code method, which as its name suggests, returns geographical co-ordinates for a given postcode, street or place.

The example code shown below uses T2A’s free test mode, during which it returns dummy data at no charge, for the benefit of developers in their initial integration stages.

When the console application is executed in the debugger, we can see the class instance that the IDE has created; in this case an array of geo_data instances, this being a member of the result class geo_code_res. Note in the bottom pane the contents of the class instances, in this case, the dummy data returned by T2A in free test mode:-

Normally you would use the API key associated with your T2A account; for this example we are using T2A’s free test mode; this is activated by an API key “test”:-

Remember that we named the external web service t2a? The code created by the IDE is in a namespace t2a. The namespace includes the main class that contains the T2A methods; this is named T2A, or more correctly, t2a.T2A.

We now create an instance of that class.

The geo_code method returns an instance of the class t2a.geo_code_res. We now invoke the method; the third parameter is the place, street or postcode for which we want the geo co-ordinates.

If the method has succeeded, the status is ok. If not, we normally would then read the error code.

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We then display the contents of the t2a.geo_data instances held in the array t2a.geo_code_res.geo_data_list.

We created a C# console application; it actually uses the same code as shown above. When adding the web reference, the first thing one notices is that whereas formerly beneath Add Reference there was an item Add Web Reference, this seems to be missing from Visual Studio 2008. In its place is Add Service Reference.

We clicked that instead (see below).

A new window opened, named Add Service Reference. In order to add a “legacy” web reference, we clicked the advanced button at the bottom.

Yet another new window opened, named Service Reference Settings. We hit the Add Web Reference button at the bottom.

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From that point, adding the web reference is the same as above, for Visual Studio 2005. We created the reference by informing the dialog box that we wished to use https://t2a.co/soap as we had with Visual Studio 2005.

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The procedure for adding the web reference is the virtually the same for the 2010 version as for 2008; the image below shows the default Solution Explorer pane for our console application.