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SELA DEVELOPER PRACTICEDecember 15-19, 2013

State Of The Platforms

Sasha Goldshtein @goldshtnCTO, SELA Group blog.sashag.net

• RTM August 2013, GA October 2013

Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2

• Continuous delivery, new features/updates every 2-4 weeks

Windows Azure

• RTM October 2013

Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1

• Big updates in VS2013 and subsequent CTPs

Going Native (C++)

• In Visual Studio vNext

.NET Languages and CLR vNext

What’s New in Windows 8.1?

• Pseudo Start button

• Desktop background as Start screen background• Boot to desktop• Slightly modified default search experience• Arbitrary proportions in snapped view

Concessions from Windows 8

What’s New in Windows 8.1?

• Some more WinRT APIs available to desktop apps (SMS, sensors, geolocation, scanning, capture, …)

• USB, Bluetooth, HID devices (point of sale)• Scanning• 3D printing• Speech synthesis• Contacts and appointments• And miscellanea: HTTP client, PDF export, PlayTo

extensions, …

Development Platform Improvements

What’s New in Windows 8.1?

• New and updated controls: date and time pickers, flyouts, better AppBar buttons, search box, …

• True WebView control in the visual tree• Loading WebView resources from dynamic storage

(eBooks, …)• Multi-monitor DPI awareness• Enhanced data binding• Custom navigation stack support• Performance improvements in startup and XAML

XAML Improvements

What’s New in Windows Azure?

Dev/Test Offering

• MSDN use rights allowed in Windows Azure

• Per-minute billing for VMs

• No charge for stopped VMs

• Super-discounted dev/test rates for Windows Server, SQL Server, BizTalk Server

MSDN Credits Model

• Professional = $50/mo• Premium = $100/mo• Ultimate = $150/mo• Example: $100 = spin up

80 VMs for 20 hour load test

What’s New in Windows Azure?

Mobile Services

• Custom API support• Source control support

(Git at this time)• Integration with

Notification Hubs• Optimistic concurrency• Integration with Windows

Azure Active Directory

Mobile Notification Hubs

• Blast out push notifications to millions of users

• Unlimited tags associated with each subscriber

• Support for all four major platforms

• Templates so you can push with a single call

What’s New in Windows Azure?

Auto-Scale Preview

• Set up scale rules for your Web Sites, Mobile Services, Cloud Services, and Virtual Machines

• Based on CPU %, storage queue depth, blob requests

• Can set up different rules for day/night, weekday/weekend

Alert Rules Preview

• Monitor metrics and send alerts when they are exceeded

• E.g., when CPU % for MyVM goes above 95 for five minutes, send an email to all administrators

What’s New in Windows Azure?

Cool New Features

• Import/export hard drives

• Automatic SQL database exports

• WebSockets support• Read-access geo-

redundant storage• New scheduler service• Remote debugging from

Visual Studio 2013

Mature Features

• Virtual Networks – P2P/S2P/S2S VPN

• BizTalk Services GA• Traffic Manager GA• Multi-factor

authentication GA• Import Virtual Machines

from Open Depot

What’s New in Visual Studio 2013?

The Connected IDE

• Haven’t you always wanted to sign in to your Visual Studio?

• Synchronized settings between machines

• Easier to get started with Visual Studio

• Automatic TFS Online integration

• Notification center

Productivity

• Better auto-completion• IntelliSense and Go To

Definition for XAML• More refactorings• Code Lens• Code Maps

What’s New in Visual Studio 2013?New Performance

Tools•Memory and performance profiling for JavaScript apps•Power (energy) profiling for Windows Store and Windows Phone apps•Memory leak analysis for all .NET apps•Graphics Diagnostics for Windows Store apps

Miscellaneous•Performance improvements•Coded UI Tests for XAML Windows Store apps•More themes

Visual Studio Online

First-class hosted TFS and Git source control, free for teams up to 5 developersTFS build serviceCloud load testing service“Monaco”: Cloud IDE for Azure Web Sites

What’s New in .NET 4.5.1?

In-place Upgrade

• Just like .NET 4.5 and supposed to be fully backwards compatible

New Features

• EventSource support (for ETW)• Explicit LOH compaction during GC• Edit-and-continue for 64-bit code• Better async-aware debugging

Going Native?

In Visual Studio 2013

• Variadic templates, initializer lists, delegating ctors• Generalized capture semantics• Full C++11 conformance probably in 2-3 updates

In Visual C++ November CTP

• Resumable functions (__await for task<T>)• Generic lambdas• Function return type deduction• Other small C99, C++11, and C++14 features

Going Native?

C++ REST SDK (Casablanca)Better auto-vectorizer and __vectorcallPGO wizard for Desktop and Store appsMuch better IntelliSense and code completion

.NET Languages And The CLR

C# and VB vNext

• Roslyn is very likely in Visual Studio vNext• New C# and VB language features being discussed

CLR vNext

• “RyuJIT”• “Triton”• “Project N”

Considered C# Language Features// Static method importsusing System.Math;

// Primary constructor for immutable typespublic class Point(int x, int y) { // Read-only automatic properties based on fields public int X { get; } = x; public int Y { get; } = y;

// Property expressions public double Magnitude => Sqrt(X*X + Y*Y);}

Summary

Fast and accelerating release cadence from most Microsoft groups, including WindowsSome areas seem frozen but there is work under-the-coversThe new Microsoft: more open to feedback and integration with other technologies

QuestionsSasha Goldshtein @goldshtnCTO, SELA Group blog.sashag.net