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An Insight to Microsoft Platform Topics covered in the presentation

• Development Tool Overview

• Visual Studio Demo

• Tips & Recommendations

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Development Tools Overview

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•Microsoft .NET

•Microsoft SQL Server

•Windows Azure

•Windows Phone 7

•XNA and Kodu Framework

•Silverlight

•Microsoft Visual Studio

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.NET Framework – General overview

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Overview of General Features

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• Interoperability

• Language Independence

• Base Class Library

• Portability (Mono, DotGNU, CrossNet)

• Simplified deployments

• Security

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What is Silver light

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• Application framework for Rich Internet Applications

• Subset of WPF

• Uses XML based representation of presentation using XAML

• XAML targets multiple platforms (desktop, web, mobile)

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Silver light Programming Model

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How Silver light Works

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Gaming frameworks (XNA & Kodu)

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• Cross platform Game development framework

• XBOX, Windows, Mobile, Zune

• C#, VB.NET as compared to traditional C++

• Kodu – codeless way of game development

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Microsoft SQL Server

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MS SQL Server high level feature set

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• Database Engine (DBMS) (SQL server management studio)

• Analysis services (Multidimensional Data, Data Mining) (Business

intelligence development studio)

• Integration services (ETL)

• Replication

• Reporting Services (Business Intelligence)

• SQL Server Service Broker

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What is Windows Azure

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How Windows Azure works

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Azure Features overview

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• Focus on your application, not operational constraints.

• Administration

• Availability

• Scalability

• REST and managed APIs (storage services even out of cloud)

• Fault Tolerance (3 times replication)

• VM

• In built, caching support

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Windows Phone 7

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Sensors Media Data

Xbox LIVE Notifications

.NET Framework managed code sandbox

Location

Phone

Phone Emulator

Samples Documentation

Guides Community

Packaging and Verification Tools

Runtime Tools

Cloud Portal

Notifications

Location Identity Feeds

Maps Social

App Deployment Registration

Validation

Certification

Publishing

Marketplace

MO and CC Billing

Business Intelligence

Update Management

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Tips and Recommendations

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Visual Studio Code Samples at MSDN (C#, C++, j#, VB, Smart Devices

etc) - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/se881ay9(v=vs.80).aspx

MSDN Library http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms348103

Microsoft Research Community (Publications, projects) -

http://research.microsoft.com/

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Common Hooks

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• hook_help()

• hook_perm()

• hook_init()

• hook_theme()

• hook_block()

• hook_menu()

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Help Hooks – a Module File Entry

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/**

* Implementation of hook_help

*/

function modulename_help($path, $arg) {

switch ($path) {

case 'admin/help#color':

$output = '<p>'. t('The color module allows a site administrator to

quickly and easily change the color scheme of certain

themes.’ ).'</p>';

return $output;

}

}

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Specify the Available Permissions

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• Tell Drupal who can use your module.

/**

* Implementation of hook_perm

*/

function modulename_perm() {

return array('access site-wide ', 'administer colors');

}

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Hook_init ()

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• This hook is run at the beginning of the page request.

1. Add CSS or JS that should be present on every page.

2. Set up global parameters which are needed later in the request

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Cont..Hook_init ()

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function modulename_init() {

$path = drupal_get_path('module', ‘modulename');

drupal_add_js($path . '/filename.js');

drupal_add_css($path . ‘/filename.css', 'module', 'all', FALSE);

}

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nit/6

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Hook_Theme ()

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function modulename_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path) {

}

• Write theme funtions

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Declaring Block Content

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/** * Implementation of hook_block(). * @param string $op one of "list", "view", "save" and "configure" * @param integer $delta code to identify the block * @param array $edit only for "save" operation */

function modulename_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0, $edit = array()) { switch ($op) {

case 'list':

$block = array();

$block[0]["info"] = t('assets');

return $block;

break;

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Declaring Block Content Cont..

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case 'view':

$block['subject'] = 'assets';

$block['content'] = get_block_content();

return $block;

break;

}

}

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!hooks!core.php/function/hook_

block/6

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Hook Menu

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• Define menu items and page callbacks.

• This hook enables modules to register paths in order to define how URL

requests are handled.

• This hook is rarely called (for example, when modules are enabled), and

its results are cached in the database.

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Hook Menu Cont..

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function modulename_menu() {

$items['abc/def'] = array(

'page callback' => 'mymodule_abc_view',

'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,

'access callback' => true,

);

return $items;

}

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!hooks!core.php/function/hook_

menu/6

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Useful Links

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• hook_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id)

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!hooks!core.php/function/hook_form_alter/6

• hook_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $a4 = NULL) http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!hooks!core.php/function/hook_nodeapi/6

• hook_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $category = NULL) http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!hooks!core.php/function/hook_user/6

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.Uninstall File

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• Remove all tables that a module defines.

• http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!common.inc/function/drupal_

uninstall_schema/6

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Useful Links

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1. Creating modules - a tutorial: Drupal 6.x

2. Creating Our First Module (1.3M PDF)

3. Coding standards

4. http://www.drupal.org