Sunday, November 29, 2009

Summary of all PDC09 – Announcements / Product Features / Cool Stuff

 

Silverlight

  • Silverlight 4.0 Features & More:
    • Support for Webcam, Microphones, Right Click, Mouse Wheel
    • New Rich Text control
    • Clipboard Access
    • Print Preview Dialogs
    • Authorization support in Client HTTP Stack (NTLM, Basic, Digest)
    • Running outside sandbox for Trusted Out of browser applications
      • HTML rendering control inside Silverlight
      • Local file system access
      • Keyboard in full screen
      • COM automation support (read word/excel files)
      • Notification Popups
  • Screen Presentation Framework (MVVM + Prism) for Silverlight
  • Silverlight Media Framework - Smooth Streaming Porting Kit
  • Microsoft XAML Toolkit : Provides Static Analysis, Localization, & XamlDom for .NET/Silverlight XAML
  • ADO.NET Data Services is now “OData”  - Open Data Protocol & WCF Data Services 
  • .NET 4 Location API - Installed by default with .NET 4 and supported in Visual Studio 2010. (System.Device.dll) See WHDC site for Sensors/Location : www.microsoft.com/WHDC/Sensors
  • Bing Maps Silverlight Control
  • Advanced Performance & Profiling in Silverlight 4
  • WCF RIA Services for Silverlight

SharePoint

Windows Azure

  • Windows Azure + Windows Identity Foundation + ADFS2 : https://federatedidentity.cloudapp.net/
  • Windows Azure Platform AppFabric - provides secure connectivity as a service to help developers bridge cloud, on-premises, and hosted deployments
  • Velocity is now “Windows Server AppFabric Caching”
  • Dublin is now  “Windows Server AppFabric” - The Windows Server AppFabric supports WCF and Workflow services by:
    • Providing runtime databases
    • Capabilities for monitoring, persistence, hosting and caching
    • Tooling and scripting to manage and monitor WCF and WF services
  • Windows Azure :
    • Features
      • Blobs – Provide a simple interface for storing named files along with metadata for the file
      • New Type - Page Blob
      • New Operations – Updated, Copy, Snapshot, Lease Blob
      • New Ways of Accessing and Service Blob Content -
        • Custom Domain Names
        • Root Blob Container
        • Content Delivery Network access
        • Shared Access Signatures
      • Entity Group Transactions - Atomically perform multiple insert/update/delete
        over entities in same partition in a single transaction
      • Dequeue count returned with message
    • Futures
      • Administrator privileges in the VM
      • Deployment of pre-configured VM images
      • User-selectable geo-locations for replicas
      • Secondary indices on tables
      • New storage option “Drives” - Provides durable NTFS volumes for Windows Azure applications to use (Feb 2010)
      • Remote terminal server access to VMs
      • Microsoft Sync Framework and ADO.NET Sync Services - Tools for data synchronization with SQL Azure
  • TCO and ROI Calculator - provides a customized estimate of potential cost savings you (or your company or organization) may achieve by building on the Windows Azure Platform
  • Windows Azure Diagnostics - SDK component providing distributed monitoring & data collection for cloud apps
  • Visual Studio 2010 RTM and SQL Azure Futures:
    • Connect to SQL Azure – Data | Add New Data Source (DataSet & EDM)
    • EDM Conceptual Data Modeling Designer – Generate database
    • Server Explorer – Browse
    • Data Sources Window (DataSet, EDM, LinqToSQL, data binding tools)
    • Configure SQL Data Source
  • File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) - provides many avenues to be part of end-to-end data lifecycle management solutions
  • “Houston” - Project Houston will provide a easy to use cloud based database development experience
  • Access Control Service - claims based access control for REST web services
    • Implements OAuth Web Resource Authorization Protocol (WRAP) & Simple Web Tokens (SWT)
    • Integrates with AD FS v2

Surface & Windows 7

  • Multitouch on Windows 7
    • Manipulation Events
    • ScrollViewer Panning Support
    • WPF Controls Styles with Panning Enabled
    • Multi-Touch on the web with Silverlight
      • Manipulation and Inertia Process API
  • Windows API Code Pack – Managed Class Library to access to Windows (7) features
  • “Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch” – Would be coming shortly after the WPF4 Launch
  • Surface Futures:
    • Cheaper
    • Thinner
    • Vertical
  • Surface SDK & Resources now available free

Visual Studio, WCF, WPF

  • WCF 4.0 Features:
    • Default Endpoints, Protocol Mapping, Binding Configurations,Behavior Configurations
    • File-less Activation (no .svc)
    • Simple Ad-hoc Service Discovery
    • Service Announcements
    • Routing Service
    • Message Filters and Content-based Routing
    • Automatic Help Page
    • HTTP Caching Support
  • WPF 4.0 New Features: Here is an excellent blog series from Lester covering all the below features with sample code:
    • MultiTouch
    • DatePicker\Calendar
    • Datagrid
    • Visual State Manager (VSM)
    • Easing Functions
    • JumpLists
    • Pixel Shader 3 support
    • Cached Composition
    • Full trust Xbap Deployment
    • Binding to Dynamic Objects
    • Custom Speller Support
    • Script Interop in Xbap
    • UIA Virtualization
    • UIA SynchronizedInputPattern
    • Input Key\Gesture Binding
    • TextFormattingMode
    • CaretBrush
    • SelectionBrush
    • Bindable Run
    • ClearTypeHint
    • LayoutRounding
    • Updated File Dialogs
  • Manycore & .NET 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 (Concurrency):
    • ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem
    • System.Threading.Tasks.Task + System.Collections.Concurrent
    • New Sync Primitives in .NET 4
    • Visual Studio 2010 Concurrency Profiler Views + Parallel Debugger Toolwindow
  • Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility – Extensions Gallery & VSX Samples

ASP.net & SQL Server

Microsoft Research & Labs

  • Infer.NET - framework for running Bayesian inference in graphical models (from MSR)
  • “Axum” : A .NET Language for Safe and Scalable Concurrency
  • “Holmes” - Automated Statistical Debugging using Path Profiles (from MSR)
  • “Darwin” - An Approach for Debugging Software Regressions (from MSR)
  • “Project Trident” - A Scientific Workflow Workbench (from MSR)
  • “Pivot” by Live Labs : Visualizing collections of objects, Revealing hidden patterns within data, Acting on discovered insights
  • DevLabs: Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx)
  • Trustworthy Data Collaboration SQL Azure Codename ‘Vidalia’
  • Microsoft Codename “Dallas” - Content Brokerage and Discovery platform

Other

posted by Jomit Vaghela @ 19:54

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