A lap around Microsoft .NET
Developer Technologies
Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios
Microsoft Hellas
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Windows Forms
• The graphical application programming
interface included as part of the .NET
Framework
• Provides access to the native Windows
interface elements by wrapping the existing
Windows APIs
– Fully managed code
• A Windows Forms application is an eventdriven application
ASP.NET
• .NET application framework to create dynamic web sites, web
applications and web services
• 2 implementations (varying heavily)
– ASP.NET Web Forms
• (Optionally) Pages maintain their state during postbacks
• Event-driven model
– ASP.NET MVC
• Direct implementation of the well-known pattern Model-View-Controller
– Model is your data
– View is your UI
– Controller coordinates communication between the Model and the View
• ASP.NET nicely integrates with ASP.NET AJAX Suite
– Microsoft Ajax Library 3.5
– A server framework for building Ajax-enabled ASP.NET controls
– AJAX control toolkit
Data and ADO.NET
• Interact with data sources
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SQL Server
Access
OLEDB, ODBC
XML files
• O/R mappers LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework are built
upon it
– LINQ to SQL: CRUD on SQL Server tables represented as objects
– Entity Framework: Easy to control the mapping between an
Entity Data Model (EDM) and raw relation structures
• You can easily create REST-based services via Data Services
Windows Phone 7
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A new operating system
A subset of .NET framework for Windows Phone devices
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Silverlight (mainly applications)
XNA (mainly games)
Special version of the CLR due to the constrained environment
Devices specs are 1GHz CPU, GPU, 256 MB RAM minimum, capacitive touch screen, accelerometer
etc.
Tools are free
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Contains some phone-specific classes
All other classes have been re-written
Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone
XNA Game Studio 4
All in a single download!
Greek developers can upload apps to the marketplace and earn money
Sources: http://create.msdn.com
Check also: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikeormond/archive/2010/07/09/mike-s-mega-list-ofwindows-phone-7-resources.aspx
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
• Environment for robot control and simulation
– Handles a wide variety of robot hardware
• 4 main components
– CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime)
– DSS (Decentralized Software Services)
– VPL (Visual Programming Language)
– VSE (Visual Simulation Environment)
• http://www.microsoft.com/robotics/
XNA
• Create games for PC and XBOX 360
• Based on
– .NET Compact Framework 2 (XBOX 360)
– .NET Framework 2 (PC)
• Runs on a CLR version optimized for gaming
• Integrates a number of tools for easy content
creation
• Encapsulates low level technical details
– Allows the developer to focus on content
• http://creators.xna.com
Windows Presentation Foundation
• Graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in
Windows – based applications
• No dependencies on the aging GDI, built on DirectX
– Provides hardware acceleration => modern UI features like
transparency, gradients, transforms, 3D
• UI code is written in an XML-based language, called
XAML, whereas logic is written in a .NET language
– Better separation between UI and business logic
• Expression Blend can be used for easy UI creation
• http://windowsclient.net/wpf/default.aspx
Silverlight
• Enables RIA development
– Browser plug-in
– Major browsers supported
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Subset of the .NET Framework and WPF
UI in XAML, easily indexed by search engines
Great media features support
Includes Dynamic Language Runtime
– Work with IronRuby and IronPython
• Can integrate with browser DOM
• Out-of-browser support
• www.silverlight.net
Windows Communication Foundation
• Application Programming interface in the .NET
Framework for building connected, service-oriented
applications
• Unites existing communication stacks and technologies
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Web Services
.NET Remoting
Distributed Transactions
Message Queues
• Supports enterprise standards (WS-*) and web
standards (REST)
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663324.aspx
Windows Azure
• Microsoft’s cloud computing platform
• Provides a wide range of internet services that can be consumed from
both on-premises environments or the internet
• Runs on a cloud operating system and has 3 main components
– Compute
• Computation environment with Web Role and Worker Role
– Storage
• Providing scalable storage (Blobs, Tables, Queues)
– Fabric controller
• The hosting environment. Pools individual systems into a network that automatically
manages resources, load balancing, geo-replication and application lifecycle
• Interoperable platform
– Can host .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP and more
– Provides an API built on REST, HTTP and XML
• www.azure.com
Windows API Code Pack
• Open Source code library
• Can be used to access Windows 7 and Windows Vista features from
managed code
• Features supported
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Taskbar
Windows Shell
DirectX
Task Dialogs
Sensor Platform APIs
Extended Linguistic Services APIs
Application Restart and Recovery APIs
• http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack (for
Windows 7 MultiTouch .NET code, check
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsTouch)
.NET Micro Framework
• A .NET platform for resource constrained devices
• Includes
– a small version of the CLR
– a subset of the BCL
– a GUI framework loosely based on Windows Presentation Foundation
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Small memory footprint
Can run directly without an OS
Supports common embedded peripherals and interconnects
Allows drivers to be written in C#
Porting to additional architectures is allowed via a Hardware
Abstraction Layer
• http://www.microsoft.com/netmf/default.mspx
Microsoft Tag
• Data encoding in a 2D “barcode”
• Users can download free app for their cameraequipped mobile device
– User opens the app, takes a photo
– The app sends data to a web service (can also
send GPS coordinates)
– Browser opens at a specific page
• API for tag management
• www.microsoft.com/tag
Surface
• Multi-Touch software and hardware combination
technology
• Allows a user (or multiple) to manipulate digital content via
use of gesture recognition
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360-degree UI
30-inch reflective surface
XGA DLP projector underneath
4 cameras record infrared light reflections
Capable of object recognition
Up to 52 touches at a time
Supports object recognition via Surface Tags
• www.microsoft.com/surface
Don’t miss
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www.codeplex.com
www.msdn.com
www.dotnetzone.gr
www.studentguru.gr
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/default.aspx
www.dreamspark.com
www.dotnet-u.com
www.msdev.com
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/default.aspx
Thanx!
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