//build/ redux

Summary of announcements from the //build/ 2014 conference by Dutch Regional Directors Marcel de Vries and Alex Thissen

2. //build/ redux Marcel de Vries & Alex Thissen A summary and analysis of Microsoft //build/ conference
3. Windows 8.1 Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld Windows Embedded Compact 2013 Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Cortana Action enter Sensor core Converged Apps Microsoft Azure Azure websites Development as a service Chef/Puppet Resource managers Microsoft .NET Developer productivity Application Performance Continuous Innovation .NET Foundation Windows Phone 8.1
4. The vision is becoming clearer “Thrive in a world of mobile-first cloud-first”
5. Devices and Services •Windows as platform is free for devices (under 9”) • No longer main target •Big investments in Azure services • Performance, scale, capabilities •Great range of devices from Nokia •Big investments in .NET •Embrace Open Source • Roslyn compilers are now open source • .NET Foundation The move towards a different company
6. Internet of things
7. Internet of Things Everything runs Windows Energy Computing Telecom Consumer $7 B $16 B $197 B $3 B $27 B $908 B $179 B $356 B Intelligent Systems 1.7T $
8. IoT Device Taxonomy Large Mobile Micro Small Azure M2M
9. IoT Device Taxonomy Large Mobile Micro Small Azure M2M Device management Command & Control Data Analytics
10. Windows Embedded Automotive
11. Windows Phone and MirrorLink Clone your phone in a car
12. 5mm Intel® Galileo and Quark X1000 32-bit x86 @ 400Mhz, single core Industry-standard I/Os DDR3 memory controller 15x15mm package Scalar instruction set architecture Arduino-compatible board Quark CPU 256M RAM USB, SD slot, Ethernet
13. Breaking news: Netduino SDK for Azure available later this spring!
14. Client development
15. Universal apps •Develop apps same way across Microsoft Platform • Windows 8.1 (x86, x64 and ARM) • Windows Phone 8.1 • Xbox One •Every language •Xbox One app development in C# and XAML in works Unifying client development
16. | | Windows Phone Only Windows Only
17. More convergence •Windows Runtime across Windows family •Deployment • APPX packaging •Data formats • Notifications • Tiles Disappearing differences
18. Enterprise advances •Deployment via side loading • Sign app with enterprise token • No download from store, but deploy from anywhere • $299 fees per year •Brokered components • Use legacy .NET components for modern UI • Wraps .NET in WinRT component and runs in different container Improving the company eco-system
19. App Container Windows Runtime App Desktop .NET Framework Win32 Local Service App Container Windows Runtime App Desktop .NET Framework Win32 Broker Managed WinRT Component
20. Windows Phone 8.1 Consumer features
21. Demo Windows Phone 8.1 Preview Universal Apps
22. Windows Phone 8.1 • Trigger based execution • Background task based on sensors, toast notifications, Geofencing, BT LE • Push notification services converged • App packaging and deployment • Appx package, only resource downloaded needed by client • Install apps on SD • Shared backup and roaming cross platforms • Universal App model • Share code and XAML between platforms Developer features
23. Sensors •Integrated into phones (Qualcomm SensorCore) •Separate hardware (e.g. fitbit, heaphylon and Sensoria) •Geofencing Getting sensitive
24. Cross-platform •Default availability of SDKs for iOS and Android •More support on Azure for other platforms • Newcomer Java, partnering with Oracle •License changes to portable libraries •Xamarin Reaching out to other platforms
25. Gaming •Xbox One apps •DirectX 12 •Azure as a backbone • Matchmaking • Calculations such as real-time physics •Orleans preferred programming model •Kinect V2 for Windows Massive online gaming
26. Patterns of a big game launch •Huge traffic spike on launch •Downtime at launch is really bad •Also spikes on weekends and holidays •Load steadies out over time Surviving too many enthusiastic gamers
27. Project “Orleans” Built for .NET • Actors (Grains) are .NET objects • Messaging through .NET interfaces • Asynchronous through async/await in C# • Automatic error propagation Silo: runtime execution container • Implicit activation & lifecycle management • Coordinated placement • Multiplexed communication • Failure recovery Distributed Actor runtime
28. Cloud services
29. Microsoft Azure • Manage Azure from Visual Studio • Remote debugging into a Azure VM • Puppet & chef integrated for DevOps scenarios • Auto Scale of Azure websites • Free SSL certificate with Azure websites • New Web Jobs in Azure websites • New Azure Portal Many new features
30. Demo Visual Studio 2013 and Azure SDK 2.3 New Azure portal
31. .NET Platform
32. Core-Business .NET Applications CLOUD
33. Innovation in .NET: //BUILD 2014 Core .NET Next gen JIT (“RyuJIT”) SIMD Runtime Compilers .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) Languages innovation Windows Desktop Azure and Windows Server Universal Windows apps .NET Native ASP.NET updates Windows Convergence Native compilation Cross-devices Xamarin partnership Web apps .NET support for Azure Mobile Services Cloud Services Openness Windows Store iOS and Android .NET in devices and services
35. .NET Native • Next Generation Compiler in the Cloud • Provides converged developer experience for .NET across devices • Uses lean runtime and VC++ optimizer for fast code execution and reduced memory usage • Developer Preview available today Adding a bit of C++ compilation to .NET Scenario Improvement (%) Cold Startup 39.32% Warm Startup 31.21% Memory Usage 12.68% Wordament on .NET Native:
36. Available for x64, ARM (x86 is coming) V1 is targeted at Store apps
37. —how fast the compiler generates code. —how fast the generated code executes. —how the generated code differs across architectures. —how throughput & CQ vary with different inputs to the compiler.
38. .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) Going from closed to open
39. .NET APIs Productive, portable and feedback-driven
40. .NET API for Hadoop WebClient .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") .NET Map Reduce API for Hadoop .NET Micro Framework ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET Web API ASP.NET Web Pages ASP.NET SignalR Composition (MEF2) Entity Framework Linq to Hive MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) OWIN Authentication Middleware Rx (Reactive Extensions) Web Protection Library Windows Azure .NET SDK Windows Phone Toolkit WnsRecipe Mimekit Xamarin.Auth Xamarin.Mobile Couchbase for .NET Miguel de Icaza (Xamarin) Laurent Bugnion (IdentityMine) Niels Hartvig (Umbraco) Anthony van der Hoorn (Glimpse) Paul Betts (GitHub) Nigel Sampson (Compiled Experience) http://www.dotnetfoundation.org Mailkit System.Drawing
41. .NET next generation roadmap .NET Platform down the road .NET Native • ARM & X64 available today (Dev Preview) • X86 coming • Auto- vectorization coming • Exploring additional scenarios based on customer feedback Next gen. JIT • X64 available today (DP) • Support for additional architectures coming SIMD • Support for SSE2 available today (DP) • AVX support coming Cross- platform • Partnership with Xamarin • X-plat Portable Class Libraries .NET ecosystem • .NET Foundation • One Class Library • NuGet as the delivery mechanism
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