Create your first Azure Mobile Services application

It is very easy to create your first Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 or iOS application with Azure Mobile Services tools. In this post, I will demonstrate how to create a sample “ToDo” application. In fact, it will take you longer to read this post than to execute the steps in it!

Log in to your Windows Azure portal and go to the Mobile Services section. Click on the Create a mobile service link.

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SqlDataSource and ORA-01036 Illegal variable name/number

If you ever use the Oracle ODP.Net component with SqlDataSource and get the ORA-01036 Illegal variable name/number error, it is mainly due to the fact that your number of parameters does not match the number in your Insert, Update, or Delete query. I had this problem using a ComposedKey with the ASPxDataGridView from DevExpress. You need to remove the ComposedKey field before executing the query.

Here is the conversation on ASP.Net that helped me resolve this issue.

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