Turn your Pennies into a Mobile Backend with Azure AD & Cosmos DB

Join us for our February event sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Service ( http://ilmservice.com/ ) in Edina. This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

Turn your Pennies into a Mobile Backend with Azure AD & Cosmos DB

This talk is geared towards mobile app developers that understand the value of a good mobile backend, but don’t want to, or don’t know how to build it all themselves. Thankfully, Azure Active Directory paired with Cosmos DB allows you to stand up secure, highly scaleable, cloud-hosted mobile backends that won’t break the bank.

We'll see how to get started setting up your very own Azure Active Directory B2C tenant, and how to use the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) to securely authenticate users in a demo Xamarin.Forms app.

Next we’ll learn about the basics of Cosmos DB and show how to do read/write operations on public and private user data through a secure connection to our sample app.

More info:
Azure AD B2C: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/overview

MSAL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/msal-overview

Cosmos DB: https://azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Presented by Tom Soderling
Tom Soderling is a long time .NET developer who discovered Xamarin and jumped at the chance to write apps for his iPhone using C#.
He is a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer, a Xamarin.Forms enthusiast, and creator of several apps, like "Pickster", and "How Deep Is It?"
He’s currently a Sr. Mobile Apps Developer at Polaris Industries, where he works to improve the on & off-road riding experience through innovative software like the Ride Command (https://ridecommand.polaris.com/en-us/landing-pages/AppLandingPage) family of apps.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, February 20th
5:30 - 6:00 PM - Social time featuring good food and beverages
6:00 - ~7:30 PM - Presentation and Discussion

ILM Professional Services
5221 Viking Drive
Edina, MN 55435

** Free on-site parking is available **

Sponsored and hosted by ILM Professional Services ( http://ilmservice.com/ ).