Nuno Filipe Godinho : SketchFlow

PDC09 – Day Two - Keynote

NunoGodinho — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:04:10 GMT

Steven Sinofsky

Developing Windows 7

Learning

Solving Problems + Innovation
“Engineering 7” Blog made a very interesting Dialog even without having any code of the product, just about the decisions that were being made
Ecosystem Readiness
Developer Pre-Beta, Beta, RC rhythm
Telemetry

Telemetry

Seed Feedback Button
Hardware and Device Diagnostics
Reliability Analysis Component (RAC)
Software Quality Monitor (SQM)
Windows Error Reporting (WER or “Watson”)

Developing Internet Explorer

Learning

Responsible Engineering
Trustworthy computing
Real-world Interoperability
Innovative Technologies

Updates

Standards Progress

ACID
HTML 5

Performance Improvements

Javascript

Ecosystem Innovations

IE 9 with 3 weeks of development is looking interesting in terms of performance and interoperability
Using Direct2D and DirectWrite to provide better graphics rendering and Hardware Acceleration without any change of the current sites

Windows 7 Call to Action

Integrate with Windows 7 Desktop
Develop 64-bit
Focus on fundamentals in your code
Build on new APIs in Windows 7
Watch more videos today on Channel 9 about Internet Explorer 9

Scott Guthrie – Developer Division

Silverlight 4

Focus

Media

Web and and Microphones

gives you access to the raw access to the input and so you can make the changes you want on that stream, like using PixelShader with it

Multicast streaming

IIS Smooth Streaming

Silverlight Media Framework available today on CodePlex

Output protection
Offline DRM support

Business Applications

Printing

Print Preview Dialogs
Printing Configurations
This is a Print API that you can change however you want and not only a screenshot of the screen

Rich Text
Clipboard access

Local and Central clipboard support

Right Click
Mouse Wheel
Implicit Styles
Drag and Drop
Drop Targets support
Bidi & RTL
HTML

Hosting HTML inside Silverlight application
We can interact with the HTML contents as being a brush

Commanding and MVVM
Data & Networking

Sharing Assemblies across SL and .NET 4.0
Data Binding Improvements
UDP Multicast support
REST Enhancements
WCF Improvements

Main one is TCP channel support

WCF RIA Services

All the capabilities of RIA Services and with all the capabilities of WCF
Works well with OAuth

Visual Studio 2010

WYSIWYG Design Surface
XAML Intellisense
WF and POCO Support

Additional Control
Beyond the Browser

Windowing API
Notification Popups
HTML support
Drop Target support
Opening the Sandbox

Trusted Application

Custom Windows Chrome
Local File System
Cross-file Network
Keyboard support in Full Screen Mode
COM object support in Windows

using dynamic keyword of C#

Access to Several devices form the client machine

Silverlight Performance

Twice as fast

uses JIT like the normal .NET Application

30% faster startup
New Profiling support

Google Chrome will support SL4 also

Schedule

Beta

All the features seen today
VS2010 Tools
Expression Tools

RC
Final Release

First half of Next Year (MIX’10 ????)

Kurt DelBene – Office and Sharepoint 2010

Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure

Unified Business Platform

Unified Communications
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Content Management
Collaboration
Enterprise Search

Office and Sharepoint Development Platforms

User Experience

Based in Services and in a Object Model that can be extended in order to create better User Experience

Application Services

Expose all the capabilities in the Applications as services to be consumed without loosing any of the features that we have access inside the solution

Content and Data Management
Interoperability with LOB integration

possibility to more easily integrate the external LOB applications inside the products

Tools and Deployment Flexibility

New Tools for Sharepoint Development
Debug capabilities are currently in the Tools

Now Debug really works. Awesome.

Interesting capability to import a Sharepoint solution to start the project
Possibility to deploy the solution in a sandboxed solution. Interesting in terms of security
Deployment

Simply upload the package generated by Visual Studio 2010 into the sharepoint – Real All-in-One working for deployment also. Now it looks really good for Sharepoint Development.

Announcing the Office and Sharepoint 2010 Public Beta to download www.microsoft.com/2010

Office 2010
Sharepoint Server
Project Server 2010
Visio 2010
Mobile is also available today in the mobile marketplace

Sharepoint has a Silverlight WebPart out of the Box.
Sharepoint 2010 now has the Office Ribbon

Announcing Duet Enterprise for Microsoft Sharepoint and SAP

Consume and extend SAP from Microsoft Sharepoint 2010
Available on the Second-half of 2010

Announcing the Outlook Social Connector

Windows Live, Sharepoint Server, Linkedin
Has an Open SDK that can be used to develop new connectors for this connector

MIX’09 – Reviewing – Future of Expression Blend

NunoGodinho — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:14:23 GMT

Douglas Olson – General Manager

Christian Schormann – Director, Program Manager

Expression Mission

Enable professional designers to create great UX with better productivity at lower costs.
Help integrate design and designers into the process of software creation

Expression Blend 3 Goals

Enable early-stage design & prototyping (SketchFlow)
- Created to address issues felt at the start of the software design process:
  - Top-down & bottom-ups design lets you experiments with ideas
  - SketchFlow Player lets you try your design at any time
  - Facilitate communication of design ideas
  - Easy to gather, evaluate and use stakeholders feedback
- Blend Elements
  - SketchFlow Application Flow
    - Important to think on pages like whiteboards to sketch, insert elements, and all what you normally do.
- Usage of SketchStyles that will allow us to maintain the Sketchy style of the Design proposal, that is very important.
- Export to Word
  - Dumps all the SketckFlow elements like Application Flow, Pages, Comments and so on.
Make visual design easier for designer
- Embrace the Design Ecosystem
  - Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator file format import with extensive support for layers
    - Preview of Photoshop in Windows Explorer even without PhotoShop installed
    - Possibility to choose what to do with each layer
    - Blend informs if the font is default or not and gives the possibility to choose other font or even the same font by specifying the path of the font
    - All content will be fully editable
    - Layer Groups are also maintained
    - By selecting an object we can make “Make into Control”
      - We choose the type of control we want to create
      - What’s done is:
        
        A style is created in order for the control to became what was defined when we selected the elements to generate the control.
        
        The control created will replace the selected element and gain the same properties that the original element had.
        
        The style is associates to the control
        
        Note: There’s now a problem when the controls have different parts, like the Slider, and this will generate all but we need to wire-up the style to the correct parts
  - Fast and Easy Control Skinning
  - Enhanced editing of visual States
  - Richer state transitions
- Focus On Your Art
  - Redefined artboard interaction
  - Better gradient editing
Design with Data (Data Generation / Sampling inside Blend)
- In the Data Tab we will have the possibility to define the DataSource structure that we want, and then just generate the data, and there are some templates like Phone Numbers, Strings, Dates, and so on.
- Make it easy to build a data-driven applications:
  - Sample Data:
    - Design applications without access to live data source
    - Create sample data on the fly
    - Populate with configurable random data
  - Drag and Drop Master-Detail creation
  - Better user experience for data binding
  - Design-time support for Silverlight 3 controls
- There’s a Master and a Details Mode in the Data Tab that will make it easier to perform the Master-Details view
  - in this version of Blend we need to wire-up the Master and Detail elements, and this will not be needed in the last version of Blend
Build interactivity without code (Behaviors)
- Introduction to Behaviors:
  - Production-quality interactivity applied with Drag & Drop ease
  - A design pattern for reusable interactivity
  - Example: MouseGestureBehavior
    - You can define the gesture that will be used and make changes to the elements based on that gesture
Enable Source Code Control (Integration with Source Safe and TFS by default) – This is available also inside Expression Web
- Design for Developers
  - Source Control
    - Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Support
    - New editor with Intellisense for code & XAML
Support for Silverlight 3

Note:

The same features are available for WPF and Silverlight in Blend 3.

It’s important to avoid having final or high-definition elements in the Sketch design because customers will start looking in the direction of the rendering instead of the functionality.

MIX’09 – Keynote 1

NunoGodinho — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:20:49 GMT

Here we are for the start of great event MIX’09

Starting with Bill Buxton from Microsoft Research with “Return of Experience – By Design”

- This is the right time to think in Design

In this troubled times this is what drives the differences

- Examples:

- Raymond Loewy 1929, Coca Cola, and so on…

- Walter Dorwin Teague 1926, Vanity Kodak in 1928, iPod Mini 2003, learning from the past

- What’s Experience Design?

- It’s Balancing between multiple approaches and the value of them, by using Sketching

- Steps:

- Sketches

- State Diagram

- Define all things about the transition as well as the States because other way it will go wrong

- Six Degrees

- All teams in Microsoft are in the process, from the Design to the Development always thinking about the Experience