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Build Amsterdam 2015

Notes from Build Amsterdam 2015

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Build Tour 2015

3 June, Passenger Terminal, Piet Heinkade 27 Amsterdam

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Hosted Web Apps:

  • Acces to all APIs
  • New file format, extension .appx
  • Hosted app!

Apps via git deployed to a node.js server and directly playable.

IoT

Windows 10 IoT Core Preview available for Minnowboard Max and Raspberry Pi 2.

Mentioned: Arduino virtual shields, Netduino 3 - NETMTF, FEZ Spider, Gadgeteer on Windows 10 IoT Core

“BlinkBlank” demo vanuit Visual Studio on a Raspberry Pi 2.

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Join the Windows Insider Program to get access to the IoT Core bits: Insider.windows.com Download the Windows 10 SDK: dev.windows.com

Azure

19 datacenters wereldwijd

25% Linux op Azure

Azure App Services

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Back-end services for mobile apps:

  • Web apps
  • Mobile apps
  • Logic apps
    • Microsoft SQL Connector
    • Salesforce Connector
    • Slack Connector
    • Trello Connector
    • et cetera …
  • API apps

Features:

  • AutoScale
  • Enterprise connectivity
  • SaaS integration

Visual Studio Family

Visual Studio Family:

  • Visual Studio Code,
    • Code optimised editor
  • Visual Studio 2015,
    • Most complete developer IDE
  • Visual Studio Online,
    • Agile planning + collaboration tools
    • Source Control repositories
    • Bug and work item tracking
    • Continuous integration builds
    • Load testing
    • Application performance monitoring
    • Available on-premises with TFS
    • Crash analysis
    • Free for up to 5 users

Azure data management services

Azure data management services:

  • Relational
    • Postgres
    • DB2
    • Oracle
    • SQL DB (Microsoft Service)
    • MySQL
  • No-SQL
    • Cassandra
    • MongoDB
    • CouchDB
    • DocumentDB (Microsoft Service)
    • Redis (Microsoft Service)
    • RavenDB

New SQL DB features:

  • TDE
  • Elastic Database Pool

Data + analytic = intelligent apps

SQL Data Warehouse

  • Easy to aggregate + store petabytes of data
  • Interactively query and visualise data
  • Operationalize machine learning
  • Pause Compute when not needed

Azure Data Lake Service (new)

  • Store and manage infinite data
  • Keep data in its original form
  • High through-put, low latency analytic jobs
  • Enterprise-grade security + access control

Machine Learning

Face verification sample

Very powerful graphical interface Machine_Learning_UI.png

Office365:

  • Yammer
  • Delve (to see what your colleagues are doing, i.o.w. “spy on your colleagues”)

XAML and Universal Apps

by Pete Brown

XAML is used everywhere in Windows 10

Universal Windows app Performance:

  • Smaller 25-45%
  • Faster 15-25%

Using Custom Visual State Triggers, detecting the screen size and automagically switch from narrow to wide view DotMorten/WindowsStateTriggers Morten Nielsen Windows Developer (@dotMorten)

Visual Studio

  • New XAML language service (Roslyn based)
  • Design Modes
  • Visual Tree Inspector
  • Profiling Tools

No more “hidden” features or “internal” APIs

Microsoft Edge

by Jeff Burtoft

Supporting the Legacy Web through “Trident” ("!DOCTYPE x-ua-compatible")

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  • user agent adapted to iOS
  • touch added
  • a lot of adaptations to get a mobile version of the site working

Support for Xbox controller in the browser!

Squiggly site: foreign object within SVG object. Enables filtering of content.

Too much different User-Agent Strings: Feature detection instead of user agent detection

Packaged maps and tools investments

  • Build apps for iOS, Android /& Windows
  • Nearly 100% shared code
  • Debug on any device or emulator
  • Use the JavaScript frameworks you love
  • Support for offline

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EdgeHTML.dll vs Chakra

WebView Control is “optimized” for Cordova

New: AddWebAllowedObject API Enables smooth interaction between the application and the WebViewControl

Hosted Web Apps (new)

  • Publish your website to the Windows Store
  • Call Windows Universal APIs from JavaScript on your website
  • Can also mix in native code, accessible from the site

Hosted Web App demo: App is “stripped” to run as Hosted Web App App has WindowsRunTime access. Prevents access to the internet from within the “browser” app.

HTML games: Coolgames.com, Dutch company is very successful in building in HTML5 games: Coolgames.com.png

ManifoldJS

ManifoldJS.png Manifest for Web Apps based on the W3C specifications: ManifoldJS

ManifoldJS, framework based on W3C standard. Requires node.js to run local or can be accessed via the website:

  • manifoldJS helps you reach more users than ever by packaging your web experience as native apps across Android, iOS, and Windows.
  • manifoldJS takes the meta-data about your site and generates native “hosted” apps. If the platform doesn’t support hosted apps, we use Cordova to polyfill it.
  • manifoldJS is based on the latest W3C Manifest working draft. We will update manifoldJS as the spec evolves so that you can have confidence that your apps will continue to work.

Vorlon.JS for testing

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Vorlon.js, an open source, extensible, platform-agnostic tool for remotely debugging and testing your JavaScript. Powered by node.js and socket.io:

  • Install Vorlon.JS and add a single line of JavaScript to your web app. Run your server and start the Vorlon.JS dashboard.
  • Remotely connect up to 50 devices simultaneously. Run your code on each or all of them with a single click.
  • Debug JavaScript on nearly any platform with a web environment. Plugins allow you to add new features and resources.

Most samples running from node.js

ReCap

Lightning Sessions

Five design tips for Developers

  • Make the best use of controls available to you
  • Design in Effective Pixels Design.windows.com
  • Start small
    • reposition,
    • resize,
    • reflow,
    • reveal,
    • replace,
    • re-architect
  • Use your own colors!
  • Think about design before you start coding

BabylonJS

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Babylonjs.com WebGL, simple, powerful

Most samples shown, can be found on this site.

Q&A

Q: Currently Microsoft promotes scale-up. Clear trend towards scale-out. A: Move away from VMs, move away from the plumbing.

Q: Why is there no GUI for the Raspberry Pi? And why does it seem that you can only run one application? A: By design you can connect via Remote PowerShell or via the configuration website. Conclusion; IoTCore is treated like the Nano Server.

ToC