Windows 8 Quick Start demonstration

The purpose of this demonstration is to make you experience an end-to-end flow where the MobileFirst Platform Foundation SDK for Windows 8 Universal is integrated into a Visual Studio project and used to retrieve data by using a MobileFirst adapter.

To learn more about creating projects and applications, using adapters, and lots more, visit the Native Windows 8 Development landing page.

Prerequisite: Make sure that you have installed the following software:

• MobileFirst Platform command line tool (download)
• Visual Studio 2013

1. Create a MobileFirst project and adapter.

   • Create a new project and Windows 8 Universal framework/server-side application entity.

     mfp create MyProject
     cd MyProject
     mfp add api MyWin8Universal -e windows8

   • Add an HTTP adapter to the project.

     mfp add adapter MyAdapter -t http

2. Deploy artifacts to the MobileFirst Server.

   • Start the MobileFirst Server and deploy the server-side application entity and adapter.

     mfp start
     mfp push

3. Create a Visual Studio Windows 8 Universal project.

4. Add a reference to the following libraries in your project:

   • worklight-windowsphone8.dll
   • Newtonsoft.Json.dll
   • SharpCompress.dll

5. Implement the MobileFirst adapter invocation.

   • The following code invokes an adapter:
     

     WLResourceRequest request = new WLResourceRequest("/adapters/MyAdapter/getStories", "GET");
     request.setQueryParameter("params","technology");
     MyInvokeListener listener = new MyInvokeListener();
     request.send(listener);

6. Final configurations

   • Copy the wlclient.properties file to the root of the native Windows Universal project.
   • In Visual Studio, open the Properties window of wlclient.properties and set the Copy to Output Directory option to Copy always.
   • Supply the server IP address to the wlServerHost property in wlclient.properties.
   • Add the following capabilities to the Package.appxmanifest file:
     

     Internet (Client and Server)
     Private Networks (Client and Server)

7. Click Run.

   Review the Visual Studio console for the data retrieved by the adapter request.