Building a Phone Client to Access a Cloud Service

The Notepad application will allow you to add notes and retrieve the notes that will be saved to the cloud database NotepadDB. You will build the Notepad application that will consume NotepadService, the WCF Azure service that you created previously, and you will verify at the end that the notes are properly saved to SQL Azure NotepadDB. When it’s finished, the UI for the Notepad application will resemble Figure 3-30.

Figure 3-30. Notepad application

Creating a Windows Phone Project

To set up the Notepad project, follow the steps you’ve taken in previous examples in this book:

1. Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on your workstation.
2. Create a new Windows Phone Application by selecting File New Project from the Visual Studio command menu. Select Silverlight for Windows Phone from Installed Templates, and then select the Windows Phone Application template on the right when the list appears, as shown in Figure 3-31. Name the application Notepad and click OK.