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In this post we'll explore the functionalities of the Visual Studio Mobile Center, it's just an overview and each functionality will be detailed in future posts while improving our 'RememberIt' application. Don't forget to take a look at the previous posts . Visual Studio Mobile Center helps mobile developers to cover all the lifecycle (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) and the functionalities they need for a mobile application. It's available under the following link:  https://mobile.azure.com Application creation Let's create our 'RememberIt' application is Visual Studio Mobile Center. Firstly, login to  https://mobile.azure.com , then push 'Add new app' button. Enter app name and for our 'RememberIt' application select Android as OS, Xamarin as platform then push 'Add new app' button. Once the application created, the getting started page is shown. Exploring Visual Studio Mobile Center menus Build menu: to ret...

After creating an offline application following the previous post . Now, we will start convert our offline application to a connected one using Microsoft Azure tools. In this post we'll add authentication using Azure Active Directory. Application Creation on Azure Active Directory To do this, login to https://manage.windowsazure.com and in case you don't have Azure Subscription a trial can be requested. Then, click on Active Directory as shown in the image below. Select an Active Directory, navigate to Applications tab, click ‘Add‘ button then select ‘Add an application my organization is developing‘. Choose an application name and make sure to select ‘Native Client Application‘ as type of application. On the final screen, provide the ‘Redirect URI‘ then validate the application creation. Once the app is created, navigate to ‘Configure‘ tab then write down the ‘Client ID’ that we’ll use later. User Creation on Active Directory In Active Directory main screen, navigate to Users...