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#Windows
- UAP -> UWP Universal Windows Platform
- Deep Dive
- Need to Know: What is UWP?
- Live tiles, notifications and Action center
- XAML Tiles are being worked on
- Interactive tiles are being worked on
- JSON format being worked on
- Web of apps
- Subscription based IAPs are coming to the new dev center and win10 apps
- Carrier Billing across all Windows 10 devices
- One Dev Center
- Single submission flow for your Universal Windows Apps, as well as legacy Windows 8.x and Windows Phone 7.x/8.x apps
- Single dashboard to analyze and manage app performance across all you apps
- Ability to distribute your apps to consumers who use Windows Store, as well as in a storefront specifically built for businesses and organizations, all via a single app submission
- Management of your ads-in-apps from within Dev Center
- And when the toolkits are available later this year, you will be able to submit and manage apps and games created with any of the Universal Windows Platform Bridges, a combination of developer tooling and runtime technologies that enables existing code to run in a way appropriate to the Windows platform including:
- Classic Windows apps – bridge for traditional desktop applications
and PC games into the Windows Store, making it easier to distribute
and monetize PC games and applications that use .NET and Win32
- Web apps – new ways for web sites to get discovered as apps in the
Store, engaged by using notifications, and new ways to monetize
using Windows Store payment options. Discussed at Mobile World
Congress
- For today’s app developer, we gave an early peek at Androidsubsystem and IOS toolkits that make it easy for developers to extend their reach using their existing code, be it C++, Java, OpenGL, or Objective C
- Universal App Samples on GitHub have been updated
- Initial Design Guidance
- Bridges
- Hololens
- Continuum
- Run the tablet version of phone apps with a connected display
- Works over HDMI or Miracast
- Windows 10 preview for IoT is available
- Works on Minnowboard Max or Raspberry Pi 2
- Get started here
- Windows 10 "Arduino Certified" components
#Azure
- SDK 2.6
- Data lake service
- HDFS compatible file system
- Unlimited storage
- Optimized for high throughput, low latency
- Project Oxford
- Face detection
- Speech recognition
- Vision information API
- Service Fabric
- SQL Database
- SQL DB Transparent data encryption public preview
- SQL DB Service Tier Advisor public preview - asses performance needs
- Elastic Data Pool
- Full-text Search
- More than 500 new features in Azure in the past year
- Over 50 trillion storage objects
#Visual Studio
#Misc
- Project Spartan is now
Edge
- .NET support on Linux in Docker
- .NET core preview for Linux and Mac
- Additionally, run and debug .NET on Linux, in a Docker container
- .NET 4.6 RC for Windows
- Nano server
- Admin GUIs on servers are poison
- It's just a deployment option
- Features are pulled in separately, not on disk
- Hyper-V, aspnet, clustering support
- Configuration via core PowerShell and WMI
- Uses core Clr, most core engine components
- Nano server is a subset of the full server surface area
- An app that works on nano server will run on the full server
- Optional Reverse forwarders package allows you run non-nano apps and silently fail on unsupported api calls
- Lots of things can run with the reverse forwarders like Java, node.js
- Less than 3 minutes to install
- 400mb vs 5+gb for full server
- Inject drivers in image before install
- Office has a unified endpoint for all API calls
- Add-ins run everywhere that office does
- Pre-recorded Sessions
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