Is it possible to use Azure Mobile Services with WP7 - c#

I realize there will be additional work (as the SDK only works on Windows 8 and WP8) as the SDK provides controls to provide a login sequence (via Microsoft Account, Facebook, etc).
I am wondering if it is possible to achieve the same result with a Windows Phone 7 app? I've been searching for a while, and there is not much on Mobile Services at all, let alone for WP7. Is there some (technical?) reason (besides the fact that WP7 is not the latest and greatest) that Microsoft has left WP7 out in the cold with Azure Services?
I realize that just accessing the data via REST in WP7 is trivial, but I'm really getting at is the entire process of using deferred authentication restricting access to users own data only, is this doable without their SDK without a monumental effort?

It turns out that the SDK is open source, and the source is at https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services .
Now, I haven't dug into the source, and don't know what the porting effort might look like, but it seems reasonable to think that it shouldn't be too much of an effort.
Good luck, and share it back if you make progress. :)
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A preview of the new C# client which supports Windows Phone 7.5 is now available to try out. Remember it is pre-release and therefore not supported. http://www.johanlaanstra.nl/?p=217

Officially no I am afraid.
But you can find a (partial) client platform agnostic implementation in a form of a C# SDK here:
https://github.com/kenegozi/azure-mobile-csharp-sdk
This will allow you to use Azure Mobile Services with WP7 I guess.

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Facebook integration with Windows C# UWP Program

I have a Windows C# UWP Application that was integrated with Facebook (It allowed users to post Greetings card images into their timeline) and previously used the Sharing Charm feature between Windows UWP apps. Facebook removed the sharing functionality from their app some time ago so I now need to recode the functionality using a Facebook SDK but don't know quite where to start.
First question is what is the best API to use, as there seems to be multiple options. I have seen "winsdkfb" and also "facebook" but all the documentation I have seen seems well out of date. Could someone point me to the best Nuget API and an up to date tutorial?
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Is it possible to run a .Net UWP Class Library on Azure?

I thought up an idea for a website that would involve some video editing happening on the web server. Microsoft UWP has a library that does the video editing functions I'm looking to perform... Amazing!!
My problem is I don't know if it's possible to get my website to run UWP code on Azure. Web Jobs seem like what I'd prefer to use to kick off this code, but web jobs don't appear to be able to run UWP code and without UWP code I don't see a library that can perform the video editing I'd like to do. Does anybody know if it's possible to run UWP code on Azure? If so, how?
I don't think WebJobs are especially suited for this scenario. They are part of the WebApp platform as a service offering that abstracts the underlying operating system for you to be able to focus on building the code itself and deploy as easily as possible.
UWP on the other hand is a Windows-specific app platform which has many requirements including running on Windows 10. Because you don't know which concrete operating system the web app will run on, it is not easy to say if the APIs would work.
That said, you could theoretically use UWP APIs in a web app as well, because there is a UwpDesktop NuGet package that allows it mainly targeted for desktop apps. It is a long shot but you can certainly try it.
As a preferable solution, I would still look to find another library that suits your needs, as the choice on NuGet is pretty broad and one of those should be sufficient.
I would suggest taking a look at azure functions
These have about the same working as webjobs, however expand beyond the limitations of webjobs. These are also more versatile in what they can do and how they can be created.
webjobs vs functions

How to connect firebase to C# Windows based app

I want to connect my C# windows based app to firebase realtime database. Is there any convenient library to do the same? or is there any better method to do so?
From this link here you can say that FirebaseDatabase.net is better than another older library like FireSharp and FirebaseSharp :
They both have their imperfections, specifically related to realtime streaming.
For example, when we subscribe to a location, and a change happens to some nested node, FireSharp won’t correctly pair it with the top level entity and will only return the path and data as a string. We want the deserialization to be automatic.
FirebaseSharp‘s streaming implementation is even more unfortunate — at first, it fetches everything from a given location (even when we specify filtering options) and does the filtering locally. This is obviously not usable when there are thousands of items.
Also, neither of them targets Universal Windows Platform.
Firebase for Windows is not release ready yet. We have a C++ library and a C# library for firebase and both of them support Windows. But a quick look at the support pages will show you that Firebase is only supported for Android, iOS and Web. The desktop version of Firebase API's is a beta feature and is not recommended for shipping. You can integrate it but you are not supposed to ship it. I would recommend going through Firebase alternatives instead of shipping your product with Firebase and waiting for the desktop version to be out of beta for you to ship it.
Following the instruction here.
It might help you.
He's using Google.Cloud.Storage and Google.Cloud.Firestore to make connect and retrieve data from collection.

Windows 8.1 Universal apps documentation

I am trying to develop universal app for first time. This may be a silly question, but is there any comprehensive documentation for c# developing? I need to partially migrate windows 8 app to universal app, but everything I need to use is different there and nowhere I can find what to use instead. It takes hours to find something useful. Mostly here or at other forums. MSDN is not very helpful in this case. I found that universal apps do not use .net framework or silverlight. Is possible to say that universal apps uses clearly labeled standard, for example .net framework 4.5? In this time it seems to me I have to use something from Windows Runtime apps and something from Windows Store apps APIs.
The MS Virtual Academy offers free courses (mostly jumpstarts) for things you might be interested in.
Below is a link to their jumpstart course:
Developing Universal Windows Apps with HTML and JavaScript Jump Start
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/developing-universal-windows-apps-with-html-and-javascript-jump-start
And a link to their jumpstart course:
Programming in C# Jump Start
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/developer-training-with-programming-in-c
Hopefully, this will get you started.
What I was looking for:
Windows universal apps use Windows Runtime.
Only reliable official "MSDN like" page I found is http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211369.aspx
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VoIP/SIP Soft Phone C# WPF

I need to write VoIP/SIP Soft Phone in C# using WPF interface with Audio support only.
I need to have call transfer, call conference, and recording of conversations in mp3.
I've looked at VoIP SDK from ABTO LLC, but it is slow at application startup (30 seconds to start application, I think it's related to loading activex part of this sdk).
I've also looked at SIP.Net, but it's only for SIP and doesn't contain components for voice data transfer.
I have very limited time only 2 months from zero to fully working app.
What SDK can I use to accomplish this task?
Windows 7 must be supported.
We have done this using SipekSDK. It's written on top of famous pjSIP open source SIPClient project. It does all the operations you have mentioned in the question.
https://sites.google.com/site/sipekvoip/
What is the Sip server you are going to use ? If its not asterisk, you can have a look of microsoft's Lync here.
You can download the Lync SDK and start exploring. Not just the audio call, Microsoft Lync has features like video call, chat, presence, conference etc.... and ofcourse connectivity to landline/pstn through voip providers
Another interesting article explaining the different SDKs for unified communications can be found here
Edit: If its for Asterisk, Sipek is the only available free opensource but we had lot of problems in installing in clients system like
C folder access
Poor device
support
Port conflict- If any
other voip app like qutecom runs on
5060, then Sipek wont run as the
port is being used already.
I struggled with this exact issue and eventually came across ABTO LLC.
They have an SDK available that supports Win 7, Win XP and can be used in WPF.
We did ask them though to build a separate SDK example for us as we are using ClickOnce for our deployments and so registering external libraries is impossible, but they graciously did it and i think have integrated into their SDK, if not then ask them to give it to you.
We are using a FreeSwitch SIP Server combined with ABTO's library and it is working like a dream. We are doing VoIP, Video and Conferencing and have had no issues at all.
The application I added the VoIP functionality to is a WPF 4 app.

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