Nuno Filipe Godinho : Silverlight

Visual Studio Live Orlando

NunoGodinho — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:38:04 GMT

This is a very interesting 5-day event on Microsoft Technologies that will be held in Orlando, and has tons of great sessions and speakers around topics like, Windows Azure, SQL Server, WCF, WF, Server AppFabric, MEF, Silverlight, WPF, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, ALM, VS11, HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET MVC, Orchard, Windows Phone 7, JQuery and more.

Seems to be a really great event, that I’d recommend to anyone that wants a really powerful way to fast learn the topics, from beginners to advanced.

Check out more here.

BUILD WINDOWS CONFERENCE 2011 – Keynote 1

NunoGodinho — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:12:36 GMT

Steven Sinofsky’s - Windows Division President @ Microsoft

The World of Computing is changing

Form factor and User interaction models
Touch is important, and not only for small devices
Connectivity is very important

Windows 8

Makes Windows 7 even better. Everything that runs in Windows 7 runs in Windows 8
Reimagines Windows from chipset to experience
- Ex. SoC – System on a Chip – Support ARM
- Ex. Full new User Experience – New Touch first experiences
- How
  1. Windows 8 Experience
  2. Metro Style Platform and Tools
  3. Hardware
  4. Cloud-based services
Everything available on ARM and x86
Delivering fundamental performance gains

Windows 7 SP1– About 404 MB / 32 processes
Windows 8 today - About 281 / 29 processes

1. Windows 8 Experience (Julia Larson Green – Corporate Vice President @ Microsoft)

Metro Style Experience
Touch First
Start Screen similar to Windows Phone 7
- Composed by tiles that represent the applications
- Represents the unification of the project launching and notifications
- Customizable Start Screen
Internet Explorer 10 with Metro Style
Fast ad fluid
Immersive and full screen
- enables you to write apps that can get the most attention from the users
Touch first with full keyboard and mouse
Web Apps working together

2. Windows 8 Platform and tools

Windows 8 Platform
- App Development
  - XAML with C, C++, C#, VB.NET
  - HTML5 and JavaScript
- Windows Runtime APIs (WinRT APIs)
- Bases / Fundamentals of the operating system - Windows Kernel Services
Windows 8 Tools

Visual Studio 2011
- Support JavaScript, VB.NET, C#, C++
- Store Menu in Visual Studio
  - Creates a package and releases the app for the Windows Marketplace
    - Possibility to allow trial licenses and so on
Windows Marketplace will certify and validate the apps, similar to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace validation process, to validate your app.
- The requirements and tools to check the compliance will be available for developers to validate them prior to the marketplace validation
New App Package
WinRT APIs available to all languages
Blend
- Now support XAML and CSS and JavaScript
- Preview integrated in Blend
WinRT Controls available for the several languages and runtimes
Existing Win32 Apps will also be listed in the Windows Marketplace
Existing Silverlight Apps still work in Windows Marketplace
Migrating existing the Silverlight apps to Windows 8, are normally just:
- change Namespaces
- change the Networking API
- add App Launchers instead of Browser launch
- Everything else just works
Developer and Platform Tools

New APIs and tools to build Metro style apps
Rapid and scalable development of Metro Style apps
Choice of world class development tools and languages

XAML, C#, VB.NET, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, C, C++ both on ARM/x86/x64

Business Opportunity is the world of Windows 8 Customers

3. Hardware (Michael Angiulo – Corporate VP in Windows Planning and Ecosystems)

Windows 8 supports a hard range of systems for and hardware, from big servers to small pcs)
Booting in 8 seconds without any Boot Screen
Taken Defender and enhance it with Spyware, and so on, even in securing in booting from USB drives
New state called “Connected Standby session” that allows a better system power management, with using only the power when it’s needed and when shutting down it will give the system to save state and after that just drop to almost.
Big partnership with Intel for SoC and some low power hardware
Windows 8 is all built using hardware acceleration for graphics, and so every app that has “metro style” will be hardware accelerated.
Display resolutions

1024x600 to 1920x1080
if you have lower resolution you won’t be able to have the apps side by side.
Completely full windows experience with 1366x768 without no compromise

Sensors

Accelerometer
Gyro
Magnetometer
NOTE: Sensor Fusion API. Single API combines all the information from the 3 sensors in 3 lines of code. It’s part of the WinRT APIs so is shared by all languages.
NFC – Near field communications – for interacting with objects or other machines.

USSD it’s a protocol very important to avoid roaming but still have connectivity
Samsung Windows Developer Preview PC given
New Windows Task Manager

Apps can be suspended it they aren’t being seen, and so they don’t use CPU and enhance
New Performance tab with all information about the resource usage
App History
Startup
Users
DetailsView with all processes

Control Panel

New feature – Reset and Refresh

Refresh = Only the PC Settings will be reset not the files and apps
Reset = Take the system to the new state, and lose all the apps

Windows Assessment Console

Allows you to test the several tests to analyze your app to prepare it to be packaged

New Metro-Style Remote Desktop

Capability to use Touch even on a remote machine
Live Preview of the machines we are being remoted into

Hyper-V running on Windows 8

Enhanced Hyper-V manager
ability to grab and open a vhd or iso and mounted in Windows without any other software

New Windows Explorer Ribbon based
Ability to have 1 background that fully spans to several monitors
New options for Multiple Monitors

Possibility to have the same elements on both start bars
Possibility to have only the elements that are in a specific monitor appear in the monitor start bar

Full use of the Keyboard and mouse even on the Start Menu, with the full power of running commands
IE 10

Fullscreen and immersive, so no chrome on it.
All the keyboard shortcuts used in IE are available also in the IE in Windows 8 version

Magnifier was enhanced to support the Metro-style and even more accessible.
Includes Ink input

Not using only a pen and a stylus

Sync PC Settings

If you sign up with your liveid every settings that you have will be roamed. All powered by Windows Live

4. Cloud based services for Windows 8 (Chris Jones – Senior VP for Windows Live @ Microsoft)

every live app was redesigned for the new metro-style
Metro-Style mail that is built using HTML5 and JavaScript using the WinRT APIs

All my mail accounts managed in one single place and roamed using Windows Live

Metro-Style Calendar also using HTML5 and JavaScript using the WinRT APIs

All my calendars and all other calendars that were shared with me

Metro-Style People/Contacts Manager also using HTML5 and JavaScript using the WinRT APIs

Combining all my contacts like from Exchange, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on. (Just like in Windows Phone 7)

Metro-Style Photos also using HTML5 and JavaScript using the WinRT APIs

Combining all my photos from SkyDrive, Facebook, Flickr, …

Connect to devices through Windows Live
Access to other machines through Windows Live for sharing Files and access to other machine resources

All the apps presented were build by 17 teams of volunteers during the summer as interns.

Path to RTM

Windows 8 Developer Preview

Including Visual Studio 11 Express, Expression Blend 5, SDK, Apps Developer Pre-Release

Next milestone is Beta, Then RC. Then RTM. Then FA
Updates along the way
Learning more

blogs.msdn.com/B8
connect.microsoft.com and feedback tool
Customer Experience Improvement data

Still today it here http://dev.windows.com we’ll be able to Download Windows 8 Developer Preview for x86 and x64 bits version. 2 options that are with VS Express 11 or only with the samples apps. No Activation needed, and also no support.

From what I’ve seen Windows 8 appears very cool, and the development ecosystems sounds great both with XAML and C#/VB/C/C++ and HTML5 and JavaScript. Currently needing to watch some more sessions about the subject to really understand more the WinRT APIs, and their connection and integration with .NET.

From the Windows 8 business ecosystem view, also very interesting to view the Windows Marketplace/Store being created and making us able to better market our apps.

From the User Experience perspective, Windows 8 looks like being very interesting and fully touch focused, but still allowing us to use Keyboard and Mouse even on the more Touch focused areas, and after that having also the Desktop mode to when we’re developing have a better User Experience with our Keyboard, Mouse, and other devices.

Bottom line: Windows 8 appears really, really cool and opens up a huge opportunity for both developing apps and sharing them across several devices, and market those. So, good job Microsoft. Having said that, I still need to see more about those development aspects to be even more impressed.

MIX11 - Session Review - HTML5 for Silverlight Developers

NunoGodinho — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:11:00 GMT

Giorgio Sardo (Senior Technical Evangelist)

What is HTML5?

Currently Working Draft
Microsoft believes that HTML5 is ready to go “Last Call” (Feature Complete) and early May 2011
- This isn’t everything that has been talked about as being HTML5 since several different specs related to HTML5 are being worked on and in different stages

Developer Web Platform

Silverlight
- XAML
- Managed Languages
- .NET APIs
Browser
- HTML
- SVG
- CSS
- Javascript
- Web Apps
- Note: For Microsoft, Silverlight shouldn’t compete with HTML5, but really being an extension for HTML5, since it does things that are currently not possible in HTML6.
Client Side Frameworks
- jQuery
- Modernizr
- RxJs
- …

Comparing some elements between HTML5 and Silverlight

HTML5	Silverlight
Doctype	App Manifest
SVG	XAML Graphics
SVG Styles	Resource Dictionaries
Canvas	Canvas/WritableBitmap
Audio & Video	Audio & Video
CSS3 Grid, Flexbox	Layout Controls
CSS3 WOFF	Typography
CSS3 Transforms	Transforms
DOM	OO and Event Model
Timer	DispatcherTimer
Ecma Script 5	Managed Languages
XDomainRequest	Crossdomainpolicy.xml
Web Storage	Isolated Storage
windowPerformance	Profiling

Tools

Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Microsoft Expression
- Microsoft Expression Design
- Microsoft Expression Web
- Microsoft Expression Encoder
- Microsoft Expression Super Preview
AI->Canvas
AI
Inkscape

HTML5 DOC Type

Similar purpose to the AppManifest in Silveright

SVG

SVG Stands for Scalable Vector Graphics, an XML grammar for stylable grafics, usable as an XML namespace
Hosted as inline HTML, image, frame
Similar to XAML

SVG Graphics

Shapes: ‘path’, ‘rect’, ‘circle’, ‘ellipse’, ‘line’, ‘polyline’ and ‘polygon’
Text
Solid Colors, Linear and Radial Gradients, Pattterns
Raster Images
As in XAML you can use ViewBox

SVG Resources

‘defs’ – defines the resources / ‘use’ – uses the resource
- in XAML you can apply resource to just one scope and in SVG defs are accessible to all, like a Page Resource in XAML
‘g’ – groups ‘defs’
CSS styling
- you can use CSS rules to style SVG
Everything you draw in SVG as action and events
It doesn’t exist any Visual State Manager

HTML5 <Canvas>

HTML5 <canvas> != Silverlight canvas
Gives your Pixel Manipulation
the content of the <canvas> is the fallback that will appear in case of the browser no supporting that element

HTML5 <audio> & <video>

Suggested codec: MPEG-4 (H.264), MP3
Composite with HTML content
Not supported
- Full screen
- Smooth Streaming
- DRM

CSS3 Layout

Silverlight Border = CSS3 Border
Silverlight Canvas = absolute positioning
Silverlight Grid = CSS3 Grid (submitted by Microsoft to W3C)
Silverlight Stackpanel: CSS3 Flexbox
Silverlight ViewBox: SVG ViewBox

CSS3 WOFF

Typography
@font-face (submitted by Microsoft and Mozilla to W3C)

Javascript and DOM

“Classic” Javascript
APIs exposed by the DOM:
- DOM core
- DOM Events
- DOM HTML
- DOM Style
- … (around 20)
ECMA Script 5 simplifies the development
Frameworks
- jQuery, …

Animations

setTimer() and setInterval() are your best friend
Be carefull since in Web you have only 1 thread

Cross Domain Requests

In Silverlight we have the crossdomainpolicy.xml
In HTML5 it uses Headers (origin) using XDomainAddress

HTML5 Web Storage

Similar to Silverlight Isolated Storage
Local or Session Storage
Based on Key/Value pairs
Limit 5MB per domain
Currently you can’t increase the limit

Profiling

windows.Performance.timing.ToJSON() – Proposed by Microsoft and currently a standard

Frameworks

jQuery
Modernizr
Raphael
RxJs
Script#
MVVM for JS (????)

More to come …

Network: HTML5 Web Sockets
Database: HTML5 IndexedDB
Devices: HTML5 Media Capture APIs

Resources

MIX11 - Session Review - Silverlight Performance Tips

NunoGodinho — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:55:41 GMT

Michael Cook ( Developer on Silverlight Performance )

Ideology
- Develop a performance culture in your group
  - Test throughout your product cycle
  - Automate your performance Tests
  - Use your customer’s target hardware
- Performance is a feature, treat it like one!
  - Spec
  - Schedule
  - Sign-off
Profiling with Visual Studio 2010
- Sampled profiling (Available for Silverlight in the SP1 of VS2010)
  - Collects statistics about program execution
    - Identifies execution bottlenecks
    - Low overhead
  - Available on VS2010 Premium and Professional
  - If you don’t have it just use the WIndows Performance Toolkit (XPerf) – Free
Using the “EnableRedrawRegions” flag
- How?
  - SilverlightHost host= Application.Current.Host;
  - host.Settings.EnableRedrawRegions = true;
Analyzing memory usage
- What is memory profiling?
  - Analysis of the working set of an application
  - Careful, the terminology is confusing
    - VMMap.chm is a good authority for defining memory related terms
- What is working set?
  - represents the amount of committed virtual memory that is physical memory and owned by the process
  - Most developers only look at “private”
- Getting Started
  - VMMap
    - Great tool for getting 30.000 ft view of what’s going on in your app memory footprint
- Managed Memory
  - WinDbg + Son of Strike (SOS) extension
    - Debugger extension for WinDbg
    - Allow you to inspect the live managed heap in an application
  - Some commands for quick reference
    - !loadby sos coreclr
    - !dumpheap –stat
    - !dumpheap –type <typename>
    - !dumpheap –mt <metertag>
    - !gcroot <address>
    - !do <address>
  - Third-party Memory Profilers are also interesting
- Native Memory
  - XPerf native heap analysis
    - HeapMonitor.cmd makes it easier (Silverlight Performance Blog)
    - HeapMonitor.cmd –p %pid%
General Tips & Tricks
- Improve Startup
  - The cardinal rule
    - Do the absolute minimum required to display your main screen
  - Methods
    - Simplify your XAML
    - Load less data and/or load data asynchronously
    - Reduce your XAP download size
      - Time Heuer’s “Loading Dynamic XAPs and Assemblies”
    - Use a splash screen if needed
- Improve runtime performance
  - Reduce the complexity of the visual tree
  - Update only what is necessary on the screen
    - Use “EnableRedrawRegions”
  - Avoid updating elements with effects applied (eg. Shader Effects)
  - Leverage GPU acceleration and cached composition
  - Use BackgroundWorker for long running operations

References

Silverlight Performance Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slperf
Visual Studio Profiler Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/profiler
VMMap: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd535533.aspx
WinDbg + SOS (Debugging Tools for Windows):
- http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb19764.aspx
XPerf (Windows Performance Toolkit)
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/performance/cc825801.aspx
Silverlight Performance Spy (Silverlight Spy)

MIX11 - Session Review - Advanced Features in Silverlight 5

NunoGodinho — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:18:09 GMT

Nick Kramer (Senior Program Manager in the Silverlight Team) nkramer@microsoft.com

Agenda

Unrestricted File Access
- In Silverlight 4 trusted Apps can access
  - Documents
  - Music
  - Pictures
  - Videos
- Silverlight 5 Trusted Aps can access everything
  - Using Standard System.IO classes

Trusted Apps In-Browser

SL4: has OOB apps run in trusted with user consent

SL5: in-browser trusted apps with admin consent

Set permissions via group policy
No prompts or installs
familiar navigation model

can be part of a large HTML site

Feature	Sandboxed App	Trusted SL4 App	Trusted SL5 App
Prompt-free	No	Yes	Yes
Cross domain networking	No	Yes	Yes
Full keyboard in fullscreen mode	No	Yes	Yes
COM	No	Yes	Yes
Unrestricted File Access	No	Special Folders only	Yes
P/Invoke	No	No	Yes
Run in-browser	No	No	Yes

Creating a In-Browser Trusted App
- Part 1 – Ask for Trust:
  - In the current Beta it’s just like SL4 trusted OOB
    - Set the OOB SecuritySettings ElevatedPermissions = “Required”
- Part 2 – Sign your XAP
  - Sign your .xap
    - Same as for a trusted OOB
    - In Visual Studio or on command line
  - Note: if you run an in-browser trusted app in localhost you don’t need to sign your .xap file

Group Policy
- Actually, only one permission – Trusted or not
- Network admin specifies which publishers are trusted
  - Publishers identified by Authenticode certificate
  - Put certificate in client machine’s trust publisher store
  - Same as ClickOnce
- Xaps are associated with publishers by Authenticode
- The trust is not for a specific app but for a certificate, and so every sl5 app that is sign with the same certificate will be trusted
P/Invoke (Coming Soon) – Only on Windows
- P/Invoke lets you call native code
- COM (SL4) also lets you call native code
  - Anything you can do with COM can also be done with P/Invoke
    - Strongly Typed
    - No COM registration
  - P/Invoke is optimized for Win32 APIs & native C/C++ code
  - COM is optimized for COM Automation APIs, example Office
- COM & P/Invoke are available on Windows to trusted apps
- How to use it
  - Works exactly the same as in the .NET Framework
  - Part 1: Setting up the declaration
    - [DllImport(“kernel32.dll”)]
    - static extern int GetDriveType(string lpRootPathName);
  - Part 2: Using it
    - int type = GetDriveType(drive);
HTML Support (Coming Soon)
- Use HTML inside Silverlight Apps
  - To reuse existing HTML/ASP.NET content
  - To integrate with outside websites
- In SL4, only OOB’s got WebBrowser (based on the WebOC)
- In SL5, in-browser WebBrowser support (based on WebOC/IE)
  - trying to extent that to browsers not WebOC
  - WebBrowser control
- Currently with SL5 the WebBrowser control in-Browser runs only on IE
- You also have the WebBrowser Brush that is not interactive but it will make it possible to use it as the brush for other controls
Multiple Windows (Coming Soon)
- Works only in OOB
- System.Windows.Window is now an instantiable class
  - Window w = new Windows();
  - w.Height=400;
  - w.Width=600;
  - w.Content = new MyUserControl();
  - w.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;
- Window Titles and Positioning are now completely up to the developer, and not strict as it was in SL4
- Sandboxed OOBs automatically have the domain name added to the window title as a security measure
64-bit (Coming Soon)
- 64-bit machines & apps becoming increasingly common
- SL5 can run in 64-bit process
  - 64-bit browsers
  - Sidebar on 64-bit Windows
- Why 64-bit is interesting
  - Because you don’t get to choose the browser
  - Because you’re native hosting in 64-bit process
  - Because you need a lot of address space (taking advantage of address space)
Pivot Viewer (Coming Soon)
- Ships as part of the SL5 SDK
- Dynamic client-based collections
- XAML-based visuals
  - You can define your visuals instead of the Bitmap
  - You can define different visuals for different zoom levels
- Customizability
  - Now we have access to the fonts, sizes, colors, and so on ..
- It will have the same process for binding as the DataGrid (ItemsSource)

Silverlight still has size constraints, currently with 7 MB with the version 5.

Call to Action

Silverlight 5 ships in the second half of 2011
http://blogs.msdn.com/nickkramer/

MIX11 - Day Two Keynote - Silverlight Part

NunoGodinho — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:09:23 GMT

Scott Guthrie (Corporate Vice President)

In December Silverlight 5 was announced

New Features

Media
- Hardware decode
- Integrating with IE9 Hardware accelerated graphics
- TrickPlay
- Remote Control
Better Text Quality
New 3D Api
- Uses the familiar XNA 3D APIs
64 bits version
Projection
- Project 2D Objects in 3D Space
Binding in Style Setters
Implicit Data Templates
DataBinding Debugging
- Breakpoints inside XAML
The Source code for the Demo shown will be available in the near future.
Announcing: Silverlight 5 Beta, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Tools for Silverlight 5, Microsoft Expression Blend 5

MIX11 - Day Two Keynote - Windows Phone 7 Part

NunoGodinho — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:50:49 GMT

Joe Belfiore (Corporate VP)

Passionate Community (#wp7dev)

www.youtube.com/windowsphone video done by Brandon Foy - @brandonfoy – brandonfoy.tv

Windows Phone 7

Updates
- Why are the updates later then expected?
  - Problems with some vendor phones with some problems from the factory.
- Who decides when an update can actually ship?
  - For open phones Microsoft ships updates directly
  - For Operator Phones they require the Operator Testing Process Approval

Current Nearly 12.000 apps in the MarketPlace currently

Future / Next Steps
- Significant update in the fall. Codename Mango
- Features in Mango for Developers
  - Opportunity
    - Areas that Microsoft is working on:
      - Ecosystem
      - Countries
      - Discoverability
    - What to expect?
      - Enable More Countries and more places
      - Scale of users
        
        IDC & Gartner suggest that by 2015 Windows Phone will be the second largest ecosystem in the world
      - Creation and Commerce
        
        Supporting 16 more languages
        
        More Countries that you can create apps – from 30 to 38
        
        Increase the number of countries that you can buy apps – from 16 to 35
      - What that the Experience and Discoverability will be made easier when looking for apps in the marketplace
        
        Hunting for an installed app is hard
        
        JumpLists in the app list like in the people/contacts
        
        Search in the app list
        
        Search on MarketPlace
        
        More Metadata available
        
        Separate pivots for each type of app
        
        Buying Process
        
        Pivot in the App information prior to buying
        
        Multi-Tasking UI
        
        Announcement: Search Extras
        
        Helping integrating extra apps in the search experience
  - Capability
    - Areas Areas that Microsoft is working on:
      - Browser
      - Phone Integration
      - Multi-Tasking
    - Support for IE9 in the Windows Phone 7
    - Announcement: Background Audio is supported for Apps and HTML5
    - Announcement: Support for video H.264
    - Comparing Browsers in Phones in the Speed Reading sample:
      - iPhone 4 – 2 FPS (frames per second)
      - Windows Phone 7 – 26 FPS (frames per second)
      - Nexus S – 11 FPS (frames per second)
    - Phone Integration
      - User Experience Enhancements
        
        Improvement in the Panorama and Pivot Control
        
        Live Tiles Improvements
        
        Animations
        
        Ways to the developer updating the live tiles
      - Support for TCP/IP sockets
      - Built-in SQL Database
      - more launchers & choosers
      - Access to Contacts & Calendar
      - Sensors
        
        Raw Camera Data
        
        Compass
        
        Gyro
      - Announcement: Skype for Windows Phone 7 will be available this fall
      - Announcement: Adding you own audio files and make done into ringtones
      - Announcement: Live Tiles with Deeplinking to your apps
      - Coding Sensors made easy
        
        Announcing Motion Sensor API
      - Multi-Tasking
        
        Fast App switching
        
        Background Audio
        
        File Download Service
        
        Alarms
      - Announcement: Angry Birds coming to Windows Phone 7 in the 25th of May.
      - Announcement: Live Agents
        
        To run code in background but having it battery efficient
      - Announcement: Developer Tools will be available Next Month
  - Dev Experience
    - Talking about it: Scott Guthrie (Corporate Vice President)
    - Event Better Tools
      - Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
        
        New Capabilities for the Emulator
        
        Controlling the accelerometer
        
        Simulating Gestures
        
        Simulating Location (GPS)
        
        Announcement: New Profiling Support
        
        Identity Hotspots and pinpoint them
        
        Based on:
        
        Execution Time
        
        Memory
        
        Provides helpful warnings for the part that is being analyzed
        
        See the Call Stack
        
        Analyze per frame basis
      - Microsoft Expression Blend
    - Microsoft Internal Windows Phone 7 Performance Optimizations in the Mango Release
      - Scrolling and Input
        
        User input is done now on a background thread instead of the UI Thread
      - Image Decode
        
        Done in a background Thread not blocking the UI Thread
      - Garbage Collection
      - Memory Usage
        
        25 to 30% memory improvement without any changes needed to be made to our apps
    - Capabilities
      - Database
        
        Includes a Built-in Local SQL Database (SQL CE)
        
        Support Linq
        
        Built-in full ORM
      - Support for Network Sockets
        
        Just the same code needed for Silverlight 4
      - Camera
        
        Apps can now control directly the camera, having access to the RAW video
      - Graphics
        
        You can now do apps that compose both XNA and Silverlight at the same time
      - More than 1.500 new APIs

Silverlight FireStarter – Keynote

NunoGodinho — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:35:46 GMT

Scott Guthrie – VP @ Microsoft

Sample Applications built on Silverlight 4.0

SAP
Xerox
Siemens
Dell
…

http://face.telerik.com – Facebook applicator by Telerik

Investments

HTML 5
Silverlight
WPF

Silverlight Future

Silverlight 5
- Major new release with new enhancements:
  - Media
    - Hardware video decode
    - TrickPlay – variable speed for video and audio
    - Better Power Management
    - Remote Control Experience
    - At the Server Side of things:
      - IIS Media Services 4.0
        
        Smooth Streaming to Windows Phone 7 and iPhone
        
        Low-Latency Live Streaming
        
        Management
        
        Silverlight Media Framework app for Windows Phone 7 available on CodePlex
        
        Announcement IIS Media Services Support for Windows Azure
  - Applications
    - Customer Story: DayForce has a SaaS solution for Workforce Management
    - Enhancements
      - Data binding
        
        Debugging
        
        Capability of placing Breakpoints inside the XAML
        
        Markup Extensions for MVVM – Converging the SL and WPF DataBinding Capabilities
        
        Implicit Data Templates
        
        FindAncestor RelativeSource Binding
        
        Binding Styles Setters – This is very important since Binding is now supported inside the Silverlight Value property of Setter
        
        DataContextChanged Event
        
        Layout Transitions
        
        Simplification of the XAML needed to develop Animations
    - New Features
      - WCF & RIA Services
        
        WS-Trust
        
        Low latency Networking
        
        MVVM friendly DataSource
        
        End-to-End Support for Complex Types
        
        Windows Azure support
      - Text & Printing
        
        Text Clarity
        
        Multicolumn Text Flow
        
        Character tracking and Leading
        
        Full OpenType Support
        
        Vector PostScript Printing
      - PivotViewer will be part of the Silverlight 5.0 SDK
      - Graphics
        
        Immediate Mode Graphics API
        
        GPU accelarated 3D
        
        Fluid Layout Transitions
        
        Real 3D
      - Out-of-Browser Support
        
        Multiple Windows Support
        
        P/Invoke
        
        Enterprise Group Policy Support
      - Test & Perf Tools
        
        Automated UI Testing
        
        Improved Profiling Support
        
        Memory
        
        CPU
        
        Thread contention
      - Performance
        
        Faster Setup
        
        Hardware acceleration with IE9
        
        Real 64bit
  - Sample App by the SQL Server Team
    - SQL Reporting Services like app Built in Silverlight 5.0
    - SQL Crescent
- Features defined using the UserVoice
  - 70% of the votes are now in Silverlight 5

Timeline
- First public Beta during Spring 2011
- Final Release Later 2011

Building Offline Applications using Sync Framework and SQL Azure – PDC10 Session Review

NunoGodinho — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:58:43 GMT

Nina (Ling) Hu – Program Manager @ Sync Framework Team

Key Takeaways:

Offline applications have lots of benefits comparing to online applications especially for mobile devices and cloud services
Sync Framework, SQL Azure and Windows Azure provide a data platform that makes it very easy to build offline applications and sync services
Sync Framework caters for offline on any client platform, and provides better end-to-end support for Windows, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 clients.

Why to Build Offline capable Apps?

Offline/Cached mode apps enjoy lots of value
- Client apps get better UX through
  - Lower latency – data access doesn’t require round-trips
  - Higher availability – App still runs if server is unreachable
- Network utilization is reduced – most data access is local
- Servers gain better ability to schedule work asynchronously
Benefits of cached mode are magnifies on the internet because
- Server/service is further away
- Network is less tuned/reliable
- Lowers the need of scaling you app

Overview for Sync Framework v4

Capabilities where extended to other platforms like:
- Windows
  - SQL Server Express
  - SQL Compact
- Silverlight
  - Isolated Storage
  - Other Storage
- Windows Phone 7
  - Isolated Storage
  - Other Storage
- Windows Mobile
  - SQL Compact
- Browser 7 / HTML5
  - HTML5 Stores
- iPhone / Any Client
  - SQL lite
  - Other Stores
How was this achieved?
- Using a single protocol for doing the communication and Synchronization. ODATA
What platforms have Client API support?
- Windows
- Silverlight
- Windows Phone 7
All other platforms have minimal client & store requirements
- Basically there are made available a set of samples to show how to implement those.
- Over time there will be provided some tools to generate the code needed to integrate with you platform

Offline Applications Architecture

On the Server
- ODATA Sync Framework
- Sync Logic
- SQL Azure Provider
- Business Logic
  - This is the only part needed to be written for our application
- SQL Azure

Steps to Build a Sync Service
1. Provision the Database to use Sync Framework
  1. Launch the SyncSVCUtilHelper.exe
  2. Select the configuration file for the Synchronization
    1. Select the Name of the configuration file
    2. Provide the name of the database
    3. Create a Sync Scope
      - Define if we enable filtering or not
    4. Select the Tables/Columns/Rows that you want to define the scope
  3. Provision the Database
    1. Select the configuration file
    2. Next
  4. Code Generation
    1. Select the Configuration file
    2. Specify the Side that you want the file to be Generated (Server/Client)
    3. Specify the Output directory
    4. Select the Language (CS/VB)
2. Create the Sync Service
  1. Open VS
  2. Create a new ASP.NET Project
  3. Add Reference to Microsoft.Syncronization.Service.dll
  4. Add the Code generated by the Tool?
Note: When you open the Service in the Browser if you add the $diag you’ll get a page with the diagnostics of the service, and see if everything needed is in place

Overview
- Data Store
  - Expose data from SQL Azure or SQL Azure
- Host
  - Hosted on Windows Azure or IIS/Windows Server
  - Exposed using WCF Sync endpoint
- Protocol
  - Expose data for synchronization via a protocol and allows third-parties to build offline clients
- Features
  - Support business logic
  - Custom authentication / authorization
  - Filtering
- Tooling
  - Provide a Tooling wizard experience to configuring server and client

On the Client
- Silverlight Offline Application
  - Only this is needed to be developed
- Collections
- Isolated Storage
- Cache Controller
- OData Sync Proxy
- Isolated Storage Provider

Support for Silverlight 3 and 4

Steps to build a Sync Framework Client
1. Create a new Silverlight Application
2. Add Reference Microsoft.Synchronization.ClientService.dll
3. Add Reference System.ComponentModel.DataAnotation.dll
4. Add Reference System.Windows.Controls.Data.dll
5. Open the Tool SVCSyncUtilHelper.exe
6. Choose the previous Configuration file
7. Select the Side you want to generate (Isolated Storage client)
8. Select the Language (CS/VB)
9. Add the Files generated to your application

On the Client for other Platforms
- Track changes on the local storage (samples for common stores)
- Implement the client-side sync proxy (samples for sync proxies)

Protocol
- OData Protocol & Sync
  - Apply the principals of OData to the problem of data-sync
  - Standardize on protocol not components
  - Minimal client sync logic and algorithms
  - Service manages sync keeping client simple
  - Provide samples to how to consume protocol for any platform
  - Provide components for richer experience in Silverlight & Windows Phone 7
  - Full interop details defined in the SDK

Roadmap

Sync Framework 4.0 CTP is available now.
SQL Azure Data Sync CTP 1 its for the Cloud to Cloud Service
SQL Azure Data Sync CTP 2 will support On-premise to Cloud Sync
Sync Framework 4.0 RTW will be available on 2011

More resources

http://msdn.microsoft.com/sync

WIF and Silverlight 4: Claims-Aware and Identity Federation (Passive and Active) session in Microsoft WebDay Portugal

NunoGodinho — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:04:27 GMT

Just last Tuesday at Porto and Thursday at Lisbon I did a session in Microsoft WebDay Portugal event about WIF and Silverlight 4.0.

Here are the resources I used:

Slides

Wif and sl4 (pt)
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Extensibility with Silverlight 4.0 & MEF Session in Microsoft WebDay Portugal

NunoGodinho — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:43:13 GMT

Just last Tuesday at Porto and Thursday at Lisbon I did a session in Microsoft WebDay Portugal event about Extensibility with Silverlight 4.0 and MEF.

Here are the resources I used:

Slides

Extensibility with sl4 and mef (en)
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Demos
- Complete Demo Script for all Demos
- ViewModel Injection
- ViewModel Extension
- Dynamic XAP Loading
- Dynamic XAP Navigation

After this I’ll do a series of posts about this subject explaining all that was shown in the session and more.

Claims-based Identity and Silverlight 4.0 – Part 1 of N

NunoGodinho — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:56 GMT

A lot as been said about Claims-based Identity in the last years, and this is has became a lot more interesting since we’ve had several issues when developing Identity of an application. Problems like defining:

How will we do Authentication?
- Will we use Username and Password, Active Directory, Integrated Windows Authentication(Kerberos, NTLM), LiveId, OpenId, GoogleId, Twitter, Facebook? (some many options, which one is better?
- Do we really want to built another Identity Silo?
- Will we want Single-Sign-On (SSO)? How will we perform the Authentication this way? Are we going to make a replication of their Users in our platform? How will we sync that?
What about Authorization?
- Will we need to implement, yet another Authorization Silo or will we use something like Active Directory information for it?
- Who will manage the authorizations?

So there’s a lot of questions regarding this subject that come up when we start digging a little deeper, and Claims-based Identity really helps us do this.

There are great explanations about what is Claims-based Identity and how can we used it and some of those are:

An Introduction to Claims-Based Identity – A channel9 video from the Identity Developer Training Course where Vittorio Bertocci explains this.
Claims and Identity: On-Premise and Cloud Solutions is an article by Vittorio Bertocci that was published on “The Architect Journal from July 2008”
Claims-Based Authorization with WIF is an article by Michele Leroux Bustamante that was published on “MSDN Magazine from November 2009”
Claims based Identity & Access Control Guide from the Patterns & Practices Team
Claims-Based Identity for Windows – An article by David Chappell
Exploring Claims-Based Identity is an article by Keith Brown that was published on “MSDN Magazine from September 2007”
Claims-Based Identity Term Definitions
Claims-Based Identity Overview and Concepts

Those are very interesting resources that we can use in order to understand Claims-based Identity better, but what about implementing it?

What I’ll do in the next parts will be describe how can we take advantage of Claims-based Identity in Silverlight 4 Applications, using WIF – Windows Identity Foundation to accomplish that task.

If you’ve got something you’d like to see covered just leave a comment and I’ll ‘try’ to address that topic.

WebDay Portugal 2010

NunoGodinho — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:05:32 GMT

Microsoft Portugal is preparing for a very interesting event both in Lisbon and Oporto, that will be based in two parts. One is a seminar about Windows Phone 7 and the other is a event with two tracks called WebDay, that like last year should have several contents like Silverlight, WCF RIA Services and Windows Azure.

You can know more about this here:

Official Website : www.mswebday.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Microsoft-Webday-2010/110948092297050
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Webday2010

When?

Oporto
- October, 11 – Windows Phone 7 Seminar – Pre-Conference
- October, 12 – WebDay - Conference
Lisbon
- October, 14 – Windows Phone 7 Seminar – Pre-Conference
- October, 15 – WebDay – Conference

Hope to see you there.

Microsoft TechDays 2010 Portugal – Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework – 360° look

NunoGodinho — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:11:48 GMT

It has been a while since I last wrote about my Microsoft TechDays 2010 Portugal sessions, and being really true, it’s been a while since I wrote anything at all, but here I go now of to another start in writing.

So another session that I did at the Portuguese TechDays 2010 event was about Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework, and this was done with my friend Ricardo Castelhano. The purpose of this presentation was to give a 360° view of this new Silverlight Framework and what it could mean for our solutions. And as you know Analytics is a very important part of our applications, and I’m not only talking about analytics of page hits, or that sort of things that normally Marketing people want measured, because we need more than that. Imagine if we could understand how our application is working by using this Analytics capabilities, and by doing that we would be instrumenting our application. This was exactly what we talked about.

The summary of this session is the following:

Design Goals
- Support All the possible usages of Silverlight Applications, and not only when they are on the browser
- Support for multiple analytics services to work simultaneously without impacting the Performance
- Giving Support for Designers to easily use this framework
- Support A/B Testing
- Support for event SketchFlow prototypes
- Support for Silverlight Media Framework
Architecture
- At this level what happens is that we have 3 (three) elements associated with the way this works, and those are:
  - Silverlight Control
    - Object that will be analyzed
  - Data Collector
    - Element that will receive every analysis information and send it to the right Event Log
  - Event Log
    - Element that will receive and store the analysis information
    - Ex. Event Viewer
How does this work?
- All Silverlight Analytics Framework objects are really Silverlight Behaviors that interact with some specific element
Extensibility
- There are 3 (three) ways that this framework is being extended, and those are:
  1. Analysis Services
    - This includes the creation of new behaviors
    - Several Microsoft Partners and other vendors are doing this for us
  2. Control Vendors
    - Includes creating behaviors or handlers exposed via MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework)
    - Controls that already have analytic capabilities
  3. Visual Studio Templates
    - Templates that are available for Visual Studio in order to ramp-up the new analytical behaviors.
Partners
- Launch Partners
  - Included in the Framework installer
    - AT internet
    - Comscore
    - GlanceGuide
    - Google Analytics
    - Nedstat
    - Preemptive Solutions
    - Quandcast
  - Supported by Control library
    - Telerik
- Additional Committed Partners
  - Anvato
  - Conviva
  - Nielsen
  - Skytide
  - Visible Measures
  - Webtrends
  - Unica
  - Infragistics
ShowCase
- RTL Gemist
Platforms
- Silverlight
- WPF
Release Information
- Beta Release at MIX10
  - Silverlight 3
  - Blend 3
  - VS2008
  - Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework 1.0
  - Smooth Streaming Media Element
- SDK RTW
  - Silverlight 4
  - Blend 4
  - VS2010
  - Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework 1.0
  - Smooth Streaming Media Element
Availability
- http://msalf.codeplex.com
  1. Open Source – MS PL
  2. Community Development
  3. Beta Status
  4. Learn from Code
- Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework
  - http://msaf.codeplex.com
- Microsoft Silveright Media Framework
  - http://smf.codeplex.com
- Managed Extensibility Framework
  - http://mef.codeplex.com
- Framework Installer and Source Code
  - http://msaf.codeplex.com
    - Free, Open Source (MS-PL) License
    - Community Development Including
    - Analytics Vendors
    - Control Vendors
    - Designers
    - Developers
    - Microsoft Corporation

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Microsoft TechDays 2010 Portugal – Introduction to Silverlight 4.0

NunoGodinho — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:16:57 GMT

During TechDays 2010 in Portugal I did a session about “Introduction to Silverlight 4.0”, that was really a level 200 session, which means that we were doing a lot of Intro to the New features of Silverlight 4.0, and having a clear insight about what we can do, and who is currently using it and with which results.

So the session was based on the following:

Introduction to Silverlight
- Here we talked a little bit about the history of Silverlight, in terms of what it can do, where it works, how it works, and how it is growing.
Customer Stories
- Media
  - Some Silverlight Media Stories were presented like:
    - nbcsports.msnbc.com (NFL Sunday Night Football)
    - Roland Garros 2009 Tennis Tournment
    - NBCOlympics
    - NetFlix
  - For Portuguese examples we saw:
    - MyWay
    - Record Zoom
- Business Applications
  - Some LOB Stories
    - National Instruments – Lab View
    - Zignals
    - SnapFlow
    - Continental Airways Call Center Application
    - K2 Blackpoint
    - Siemens Medical – Syngo Dynamics
  - For Portuguese examples we talked about:
    - ViaTecla
    - Primavera
- RIA
  - Some RIA Stories
    - MGM Stargate G1
    - eBay Sidebar
    - HardRock Memorabilia
    - Bondi – Digital Archive Publishing
    - Perfect Car Finder
    - Career Builder
  - For Portuguese examples we saw:
    - OceanLook
- Digital Marketing
  - Some Digital Marketing Stories
    - Tata Nano
    - NY Mag
  - For Portuguese examples we saw:
    - Plural Portugal
    - Rodrigo Leão
Silverlight 4.0 specific features
- Analysis in the following areas
  - Media
  - Rich Experiences
  - Business Applications
  - Beyond the Browser
  - Developer Tools

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VS Connections 2010 – Day One - Keynote

NunoGodinho — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:58:16 GMT

Bob Muglia – President of Server and Tools Business - Microsoft

Announcement: Release of Visual Studio 2010

“Get In the Zone”

Multi-monitoring
Box Selection
Extension Manager
JQuery Integration
HTML code snippets

“Get Current”

Windows Platform

Windows 7

Takes advantage of the Multi-Touch
Develops using the Ribbon
Native Support

Animation API
Native Ribbon Designer integrated into VS2010
MFC Class Wizard is Back
Multi-touch and Advanced Gesture Support

Sharepoint

Build Sharepoint Sites
Build WebParts
Features

Packaging Automation
Use Server Explorer for explore all the Sharepoint Site contents
Linq-to-Sharepoint
Real Debug Support

Silverlight
Windows Phone
Windows Server
Windows Azure

Windows Azure & Mobile Integration
WCF Sinks
EntityFramework support on Azure

SQL Server

A new Major release will be available in a few weeks

“Great Team Work”

Announcement: Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere

Works on Several platforms, IDEs, and OS
ALM tools

Dependency Graph
Sequence Diagram – UML 2.1 compliant
Microsoft Test Manager

Creates the notion of an Actionable Bug
Capability to see

replay of what was done when the bug was generated
the steps to replay the bug
replay the tests that were already done to see be sure the bug was solved

IntelliTrace

Gives the capability to debug application with the code that was working when the trace was made.

Integration with Sharepoint

Availability of Dashboards about Project Status reports

Virtualized Test Environment

Step up Program is available until the end of April

You buy a lower end subscription of MSDN and get the next level edition for free

tMIX10 – Day Three – Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Azure – A Match Made for the Web

NunoGodinho — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:59:23 GMT

Design Patterns

Hosting Silverlight in the Cloud

ASP.NET website hosted in Windows Azure
XAP file hosted on the website, used in the browser

Like an on-premises website, but has the flexibility of the Cloud

Shared Storage Signature for WIndows Azure Storage

Use the FromConfigurationSetting static method from the CloudStorageAccount class
Create a SharedAccessPolicy to define the policy for how the key will be shared.

Tips and Tricks

Silverlight

Use .NET Framework 3.5 in the Cloud
ASP.NET MVC is recommended as the WebRole
Make sure you Install Static Content support in IIS
Smooth Streaming not supported yet on Windows Azure

WCF

For load-balanced considerations

Load balanced endpoint flags
Consider connections timeouts (1 minute)

Asynchronous patterns works well

PollingDuplexHttpBinding expects affinity

In this case you’ll need to store the client state yourself

Different port mappings in the cloud

Quick: Patch port mappings into auto-generated service reference

Other Windows Azure Platform Services

SQL Azure

SQL Database in the cloud
Provisioned on-demand with high-availability
No physical administration required

Windows Azure Platform AppFabric

Service Bus

Connect Asynchronously between on-premise services and cloud services

Firewall transversal with message rendezvous

Access Control

STS in the Cloud

http://dev.windowsazure.com

MIX10 – Day Two – Keynote

NunoGodinho — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:03:59 GMT

Dean Hachamovitch – General Manager – Microsoft

Welcome to Internet Explorer 9 – HTML 5, Hardware Accelerated

HTML5 Ahead

Performance

WebKit.org Performance software SunSpider v0.9
Making JavaScript Even faster for HTML 5 applications

Compiled JavaScript In Background and Using Multi-core

IE9 and Standards

Same Markup across browsers
Same Script
Same HTML
Announcement: Contributing DOM, CSS3 Standards. more than 100 Compliance Tests to W3C

GPU-Powered HTML5

Excellent performance on the Graphics
Announcement: Hardware-accelerated SVG. Contributing SVF Compliance Tests to W3C

IE9 Platform Previews

Announcement: IE9 Platform Preview and will be updated every 8 week

Standards and Community Feedback

HTML5 Video

It will be an update to the Platform Preview
Announcement: Hardware Accelerated HTML 5 Video

What’s next?

http://ietestdrive.com

Scott Guthrie – Corporate Vice President – Microsoft

Visual Studio 2010

Coding Experience

Full Multi-monitoring experience

Better IntelliSense
Improved Navigation
Richer Code Visualization
Richer Profiling and Debugging Support

Web Forms

Smaller ViewState
Semantic URLs
More server controls like charts

MVC 2.0

Built-in
Client Server Validation
New UI and Scaffolding Controls

AJAX Development

Improved JavaScript IntelliSense in terms of activity and responsiveness

Deployment

Multiple configuration files
One Click Way deploying the Application

Code
Content
Tools
Database

Microsoft JQuery

Distributed by the Microsoft AJAX CDN
Microsoft is currently contributing for the JQuery Project in terms of features and Compliance Testing elements

Web Platform Installer

Small Installer that provides every information and products that we need to deploy the applications
Can be customized
Packages all the dependencies of the project and deploys them automatically

Web Application Gallery
No Costs – No Obligations

Microsoft WebSiteSpark

Individuals or Companies with less then 10 people
Includes

Visual Studio
Expression Studio

No Costs for 3 years

Microsoft BizSpark

Scott Hanselman – Principal Program Manager – Microsoft

Visual Studio 2010

Pascal Casing Technique – typing only HCP for HttpCachePolicy class
Boxed Selection
Sequence Diagram
MVC Areas – Divides the several Areas of the site, without any interaction between them
HTML Snippet support
JQuery Template Engine to define Binding that occur on the client side
JQuery IntelliSense and Documentation
JQuery Template support
JQuery Selectors support
Deployment

Package and Deployment

Has the ability to define the Database that will be used as well as the data that should be sent to the new environment

John Resig – Creator of jQuery

“Microsoft is working with us”

Templating

Michael Comperda – Director of Technology – http://Curse.com

Online gaming platform
Case Study on the BizSpark program

Douglas Purdy – Microsoft - @douglasp

“We are shifting from WebSite experience to a Web API experience”
Services Powering Experiences

How do I:

Enable Many Experiences?

New Runtime
New Language
New Device
Answer:

Open. Free. Standards

Http, ATOM

Open Data Protocol

Set of conventions (ODATA)

How to make your API Scalable?

Simple. Reliable. Scalable.

Windows Azure
SQL Azure

How do we make money?

Evangelize. Monetize. Your API.
Microsoft codename “Dallas”

OData

Example: http://odata.netflix.com
JSON support: $format=json
Retrieve all the metadata that is available for the data: $metadata
OData Visualizer. Shows a Diagram with all the OData elements and relationships
DataServiceCollection<T> class eases up the Asynchronous calls and the DataBinding for applications
Announcement:

Support for iPhone directly to OData Available Today
ODATA is available today on Apache 2.0 License
http://www.odata.org to download all the clients

Products that use ODATA

Sharepoint 2010

Every List are all exposed like OData

Excel 2010

Building OData Support for Excel. Included in the Pivot Data

Several Other products are starting to Implement it

WIndows Azure
SQL Azure
Windows Server 2008
Silverlight
.NET
Codename “Dallas”
Windows Phone 7
…

SQL Azure

Manage Database Button – Database Manager codename “Houston”
SQL Azure Labs

OData Service generator for exposing the SQL Azure Database as OData
Will be available Today at SQL Azure Labs

Microsoft codename “Dallas” – http://www.sqlazureservices.com

Data as a Service. Information Market Place to Open Data
Marketplace for Data Providers to monetize their data and get it to everybody that needs it
Build your own Business Model and Terms of Use
Take the advantages of:

Discoverability
Reliability
Scalability

Bill Buxton – Microsoft

NUI – Natural User Interface
“Project Gustav”
What’s really changing?

Is not the technology it’s

Who
When
Where
How
It’s our nature that is making these changes

Mobile is Key
Tools are here .., now
So you can build the design right
More important, you can do the right design for the right

person
local
device

MIX10 – Day One – The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework

NunoGodinho — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:58:07 GMT

Michael S. Scherotter – Media Experience Evangelist – Microsoft

Mail – mishero@microsoft

Twitter - @synergist

Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/synergist

Design Goals

Out-of browser
Offline applications
Multiple Services Simultaneously
Expression Blend
A/B Testing
SketchFlow Application
- Important to track the information about how customers are using our sketch.
Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework Player

Build upon Silverlight Behaviors

Architecture

Application with the Analytics Services and the TrackAction will contact the DataCollector element that will send the information to the Event Log element.
If we are offline everything is working and the information will store all the information in the Isolated storage and whenever the application goes online all the Analytics Services will be contacted and informed about all the actions made offline.

A Complete set of Behaviors related to Silverlight Analytics are made available easily inside Blend in order to define what to track and to analyze.

Extensibility

Analytics Services Create Behaviors
- Basically wraps Service Calls
Control Vendors Create Behaviors or Handler via MEF
Framework Comes with Visual Studio Templates

Building it

New Silverlight Class Library
Add new Item ”Analytics Behavior”
- Template for developing Analytics Behaviors
- Gives you access to Analytics Events that are placed in your application

Application Performance

Use the Pulse Behavior

Partners

Actually inside the Framework
Analytics Services
- Controls
  - Telerik
    - Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework
    - Smooth Streaming Media Element

The ones that will be in the Framework
- Analytics Services
  - Nielsen
  - …
- Controls
  - Infragistics
    - Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework
    - Smooth Streaming Media Element

Service Oriented Analytics

Platforms
- WPF Analytics
- Silverlight 4
Behavior that wraps the Endpoints and places the analytics in them, leveraging all the power of the Silverlight Analytics not only for Silverlight applications
http://msaf.codeplex.com
- Open Source – MS-PL
- Community Development
- Beta Status
- Learn from the code

MIX10 – Day One - Keynote

NunoGodinho — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:31:00 GMT

Bing Maps

Augmented Reality
www.bing.com/maps and http://discoverbingmaps.com

Scott Guthrie

Silverlight

Media
RIA
Phone

In PDC09 Silverlight was installed in 45% of the machines, currently is on 60%

Open Sourcing the Olympics Player
RIA

Now project Pivot is integrated in Silverlight 4 with a Pivot Control that will be shipped on the Toolkit

Great Tooling

VS2010

Full Silverlight Support

Blend 4

Free upgrade from Blend 3 is you already have the version 3

Silverlight 4 RC is now available and RTW will be out next month

Windows Phone 7

Silverlight

Fully hardware accelerated
Same programming model from the Silverlight. It’s exactly the same Silverlight from other platforms, not a light version.
Deep Zoom support
More Features:

Location and Map Control

http://platform.seesmic.com
90% of the same code for Windows and Mac

Microphone & Camera
Push Notifications Support

Real-Time Applications notifications

Accelerometer support
Fun & Games

Visual Studio 2010

Real emulator. This is a virtual machine with Windows Phone 7 installed.

If you’re in a Windows 7 machine with Multi-touch you can use it on the emulator.
Expression Blend 4

John Harris presenting the Blend experience for Designing Windows Phone 7 Applications
Emulator is also available on Blend

Tools will be available for free for Windows Phone Development
Partner: Vertigo

Netflix project
Netflix application with all the information’s that we normally have in the site
Possible to integrate your own applications with the existing User Experience

XNA support

eBay

eBay last week open the Open eBay where you can develop Silverlight applications and monetize.

Joe Belfiore (Corporate VP Windows Phone – Microsoft)

Windows Phone

Silverlight Application developed for Windows Phone 7 – ArchType
Monetization cal be done with all the Silverlight capabilities or with the new Windows Phone Markerplace
3rd party applications can be developed and installed on Windows Phone 7. Interesting demos about the diary as well as some other photo apps developed from 3rd party

When can we get started.

Windows Phone Developer Tools are now available to download for free.

VS 2010 for Windows Phone

Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone