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The Real World Agile Roadshow – Getting started with Agile Application Lifecycle Management
Agile in Action – Act 3: The Frontend
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Operations Management
Solution Deployment
Requirements Management
Quality Assurance and
Testing
Development
Solution Architecture
Application Lifecycle
The ALM Cycle
Developers
Write and Debug Code
Version Control
Code Quality
Designers
Prototyping
UI Design
Interaction Modeling
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[email protected] The Art and Science of Software Development
Microsoft has always been a leader in the science part of software development:
Millions of developers all over the world build software that solves complex business problems using the Microsoft platform.
Development teams create great features and functionality.
But - customer and user expectations change
Functionality and features may no longer be enough to make software successful!
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[email protected] Recent Paradigm Shifts
UX
Application Experiences
Interactivity/Response/Richness
Rich Media Content
Exponential Growth
Desktop & Web
Merging/blurring
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[email protected] It‘s The Experience That Counts!
Products and services can simply fail if they offer a suboptimal experience to users and customers
Designing unique user experiences will become very important for software development
Users of software care about their experience
As far as the user is concerned, The experience IS the product!
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[email protected] Good – Better - Best
Broadest Reach Lowest common denominator
Better UX Tradeoff between Reach & Rich
Best UX Rich client experience
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[email protected] Rich VS Reach
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ASP.NET 2.0 (D)HTML ASP.NET
HTML5
Silverlight
WPF
Win32
DirectX 9
DirectX 10 Console
Flash
Windows Phone 7
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[email protected] HTML 5 promises Interoperability … … by enabling the same markup everywhere
Commonly used to refer to modern open web
standards like HTML 5, CSS3, and more
The W3C HTML5 specification is still a draft,
it’s over 1100 pages and keeps evolving
Adds new rich media and graphics support
(canvas, video, audio, inline SVG…)
Standardizes behavior for browser vendors,
enabling same markup everywhere
We’ve donated almost 6,000 test cases to the
W3C to date with many more to come!
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[email protected] The Content Layer – HTML 5
New elements
New structural elements – provides new semantic vocabulary for parts of a page
New markup elements – measurements, data, time etc.
Audio and Video – allows for embedding of content, including audio and video
New form controls with validation
Simplified doctype/encoding - supports both html & xhtml
New APIs
Drag & Drop – allows objects to be dragged and then dropped on targets
Cross-Document Messaging – allows documents to communicate across domains
Client Storage – stores simple session data or structured data using SQL-like queries
Offline Application Caching – connection detection, applications run offline
Canvas/SVG – API for drawing directly in the browser window using vector graphics
Geolocation
Web Workers – background processing/threading for web apps
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[email protected] The Presentation Layer – CSS3
Color - Opacity, RGBA, HSLA
Backgrounds – Size, Image Layers, Multiple Images
Borders – Color, Image, Radius, Shadow
Text – Overflow, Shadow, Formatting, Fonts
Transformations – Rotate, Scale, Skew, Transform
3D Transformations
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[email protected] HTML 5 Criticism
It‘s still heavily in flux – draft specification only. Expected in 2022.
It‘s OK for web sites but what about LOB web applications?
Is it actually possible to create complex business logic in Javascript? Would anyone want to?
No standardized development environment
Different support of individual HTML 5 features by different browsers can lead to browser-specific applications – Browser Wars 2.0?
HTML 5 is an option if you need broad reach for your application – but be mindful of potential issues/complexities!
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[email protected] Internet Explorer Desktop Integration
Internet Explorer 9 puts the web at the center of the user's experience in Windows. Web applications can feel more like native applications in Windows 7 with IE9 features:
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[email protected] Integrated Security
Managed code only
Applications are sandboxed
Principle of minimal privilege
Certification and verification
Windows Phone Marketplace distribution only
Internet Explorer Mobile isolation
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[email protected] Two Flavors of Applications
High-performance game framework
Rapid creation of 2-D and 3-D games
Rich content pipeline
Mature, robust, widely adopted technology spanning Xbox 360, Windows, and Zune
XAML/event-driven application framework
Rapid creation of visually stunning apps
Metro-themed UI controls
HTML/JavaScript Support
500,000 developers/Windows and web
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[email protected] Best-of-Breed Development Tools
Tools Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (with free add-in for Windows Phone 7)
Free: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
Microsoft Expression Blend 4
Free: Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone
Free: Windows Phone 7 Emulator
Free: XNA Game Studio 4.0
Single download and install
Installation integrates with what you have and know
http://create.msdn.com
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[email protected] Cloud Integrated!
Rich support for incorporating custom web services into app-specific experiences:
Built-in APIs integrated with Microsoft services:
Familiar API frameworks for interacting with existing web 2.0 services:
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[email protected] Marketplace
Enhanced discovery
It is easy to find applications
Simple acquisition
Try before you buy
Offers payment flexibility with mobile operator (MO) billing and credit card billing options
Application updates
User Experience
The Windows Phone Marketplace hub brings applications to life in a new, dynamic, panoramic, and searchable shopping experience focused on content
Microsoft certifies all applications in a well-established process before they are released live to the Marketplace – focus on quality and security
Organizations can publish B2B applications for employees
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[email protected] Dedicated Developer Portal
A single destination to access all the tools and support
Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of applications
Self-service portal provides tools, shipping, and monetization
Best practices and community
Windows Phone Marketplace
Developers have a single worldwide distribution channel with global access
http://create.msdn.com
