Using Windows azure cloud service for making mobile and web application

Question

I am a newbie to Windows Azure platform.
My team is developing a web and a mobile application and we are thinking of going with this platform. But I have few doubts taking that:
My web and mobile application will access the same database, so is it possible to have a same cloud database in windows azure allowing both mobile and web application to access it
Few examples and references will help a lot.

Note: I have a request and reponse operations from both client and server, so its two way communication process for mobile and web app. Thanks!!

Answer 1

We built a project recently that was built using webAPI on MVC 4.0. We built an Azure Cloud service project in Visual Studio 2012 ,and created a web role that hosted both webapi (REST based Services) and MVC web application.

To secure our API, we implemented a token based security mechanism over the WebAPIs for user authorization. We created two different Routes /Rest/API (to handle CRUD) and REST/RPC(to handle additional operations.

In all, we had following layers in the solution

MVC Web Project
--API (APIControllers - REST + RPC)
--Controllers (MVC Controllers)
-- VIEWs
MVC Web ROle Project
-- Mapped to the MVC Project in the web
Repository
-- Repository classes for entities
Data Access
-- Data Access classes for each entity using DAPPER
Models
-- POCO Classes representing entiries