LEAP Conference – day 1

A summary of day 1 of the LEAP conference in Redmond, Seattle

Keynote

With Scott Guthrie

Rich web

• AJAX & HTLML4/5 and Silverlight
• Silverlight 3
  • Ships in July 2009
  • Runs inside and outside the browser
• Demos (http://www.iis.net/media/)
• Smooth streaming – adaptive bitrate
• The streaming server is free
• Supports pre-recorded and live content
• Content is cached on servers local to the user – one webserver can serve a large number of clients
• Demo client/server application created with Silverlight template
• Using navigation template
• “Out-of-browser” settings
  • Can use GPU acceleration
  • Support for context menus (right-clicking) will be added to Silverlight 4
• Expression Blend 3
  • Ships in July 2009
  • New feature SketchFlow for sketching/prototyping UI
    • Use multiple sources like scanned images, pictures etc
    • Create workflows
    • Wiggly Styles
    • Separate skin which looks like a hand-drawn image
    • Without colors – focus on functionality and usability
    • Looks similar to Balsamiq Mockups
  • Photoshop import
    • Supports selecting layers
  • Sample data
    • Creating, editing and styling
    • The designer person can get the application working with testdata without being dependent on the developer
    • Disigner import for Silverlight will be significantly improved in VS 2010
• Web platform installer
  • http://www.microsoft.com/web/
  • Supports install of IIS Media Server 2.0
  • Search engine optimization tool
    • Generate site analysis report

Multi-core

• How can developers take advantage of multi-core CPUs?
  • Shift from how to do things to what to do:
    • Using LINQ and lambda expressions
    • The framework can then utilize multiple CPUs by partitioning the execution into different chunks which can be run in parallel on different CPU cores
• The ASP.Net core has been configured to support multi-core parallelism as default in .Net 4
• .Net Parallel Extensions
  • Net parallel task debugger window in VS 2010
    • Easier navigation between threads and tasks

Automated Testing

• VS 2010 has better support for TDD
  • New mode for working with classes which hasn’t yet been created (switch into this mode by pressing Ctl + Alt + Space).
  • Automatic generation of classes and methods based on the test
  • Demo – Scott referring to the AAA (Arrange – Act – Assert) pattern (which is good!)
• Manual test tools

Cloud

• The same .Net runtime binaries are used on-premise and in cloud
  • ASP.Net
  • SQL Server
  • WCF / Workflow

SharePoint

• Built-in support in VS 2010
• Features include:
  • Projects
  • List
  • Web-Parts
  • Workflows

SharePoint Patterns and SharePoint futures

With Paul Andrew

Development patterns and practices

• http://www.microsoft.com/spg

The SharePoint Development Lifecycle

Memory management

• Use the SPDisposeCheck utility
• SharePoint APIs return IDisposable objects

Deployment

• VSeWSS 1.3
  • Extension to VS
  • Simplify deployment with the “Package” feature
    • Creates the .wsp file in one command
  • Automatic file renaming
  • Deployment conflict resolver
  • Deploy additional assemblies

Futures

This information was confidental until the Sharepoint conference in Las Vegas in October 2009, and will not be covered in this post.

Patterns & Practices roadmap

With Eugenio Pace

P&P FY09 Programs

• Client development
  • Prism (WPF and Silverlight)
  • Web Client
  • Mobile Client
• Server development
  • SharePoint Guidance
  • Services Development
  • Web Service Security Guidance
  • Enterprise Service Bus
  • Web Service
• Solution Development Fundamentals
  • Enterprise Library
  • Application Architecture Guide
  • Testing Patterns & Guidance
  • Data Access Guidance

What’s coming in FY 10?

• Client
  • Prism 3, expected March 2010 (WPF 4.0 / SL 4.0)
  • Web Application Guidance (ASP.Net, MVC, jQuery, Dynamic Data)
• Server
  • SharePoint Guidance, April 2010 ()Internet Scale, Silverlight, LOB, Office 14)
• Services
  • Cloud Identity Management Guidance, November 2009 (Geneva, Azure Services, LiveID)
• Fundamentals
  • Enterprise Library 5.0, March 2010
  • Data Access Guidance, March 2010 (Domain Driven Design, EF 2.0, Astoria, .Net RIA Service)
  • Application Architecture Guide 2^nd Edition, November 2009
  • Acceptance Testing Guide, November 2009

CloudLib

• Reuses existing blocks for
  • Exception handling
  • Validation
• Extensions to existing blocks for
  • Security
  • Log
• New blocks added for the cloud
  • DataAccess (SDS)
  • Tables
  • Config
  • Blob
  • Queue
  • Worker

How to work with the P&P team?

• http://www.microsoft.com/practices/
• http://www.codeplex.com/
• Affect the P&P backlog by getting involved in the community

Rich Internet Applications

With Ian Ellison-Taylor

Silverlight 3

• 3D support
• “Out of browser” demo
  • Select “Desktop shortcut” when installing
  • Still hosted in the browser internally
    • This is not visible to the user
    • Not possible to access the browser’s XML DOM
• New capabilities
  • Media
    • Smooth streaming
    • More format choices (like H.264)
      • More efficient decoding – uses less resources
    • Fullscreen HD playback
    • Extensible media formats
    • Content protection
• Graphics
  • Perspective 3D Graphics
  • New Bitmap API
  • Enhanced Control Skinning
  • Bitmap Caching
    • Performance improvements
  • Themed App Support
    • Supported in Blend 3
  • Improved Text Rendering
    • Crisper text
    • Faster rendering
    • Support for more languages (about 30 in total)
    • Better layout algorithms
• Dev Productivity
  • Controls (60+)
    • Datagrid
  • Search Discoverability
    • Control which information to make available for search robots
  • .Net RIA Services Framework
  • Improved Performance
    • Targeted for big applications
  • Advanced Accessibility
• Out of Browser
  • Run Apps Out of Browser
  • Desktop & Start Menu
  • Safer & More Secure
    • Still running inside a sandbox, same security access as when running in the browser
  • Smooth Installation & Auto Update
  • Windows Integration
    • Better support for Windows 7, including touch and new start menu
  • Connectivity Detection
    • Detects network connection status
• Design Tooling
  • Prototyping w/ SketchFlow
    • Sketch out random ideas
    • Link them together using workflows
    • Real controls are used under the covers
      • The scetch skin makes the user focus on the functionality – not on visual details like colors and fonts etc
  • Visual Design Workflow
  • Accessibility Interactivity
  • Design w/data
  • VSTF Integration
  • Design Surface Extensibility

Windows Forms

• Will still be supported for many years and will be continued to be developed

Etiketter: LEAP, Silverlight