The last leg, of 8, of the world Build tour was held in Sydney this week. What can I say .. it was great. A lot of new and coming Creators features were covered, Insight into the latest Windows technologies was dished out. Here are some of the highlights and summary links.

 

Day 1

Build 2017 Videos On Channel 9

#MSBuildTour Tweets

My screen shots on OneDrive

 

VIDEOS:

If you would like to check out the video replay of the sessions, please visit Microsoft Australia You Tube. (Direct links at bottom of this page.)

 

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The Team

Snippets

“Cloud Powered Clipboard”

  • CosmosDB provides a variety of data formats
  • Carnival Cruises: Azure Stack great for disconnected contexts
  • App Development:

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  • Modernize your app with UWP
    - Contribute to .NET and XAML Standards
    - Bring your app to Windows Store
    - Get an Azure Subscription
    - Try out Microsoft Cognitive Services
    Resources from aka.ms/buildtour

 

  • Principals of Bot Design: aka.ms/botdesign
  • AdaptiveCards.io
  • PWA Its magic for web site. . Second activity for Hackathon.
    - Big performance improvements See the PWA performance improvement here
    - Off line capability through caching
    - Can also package as app in The Store
  • UWP apps are the future for Windows desktop development
    - Windows Bridge, formerly Centennial, can wrapper Win32 apps into a UWP app, that t can be “Stored”
    - App can then be extended to exploit Windows 10 Creators features
    - Have their own trust. Eh=g when a UWP app runs, no registry access. A bridged Win32 UWP app has its own “registry”
    - Win32 apps tend to use pipes that are a no-no for UWP so bridged apps have a “kind-of” pipe.
    - See second Hackathon activity
  • UWP Toolkit
    - The UWP Community Toolkit is a collection of helper functions,
    - custom controls
    - app services.
    - It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building UWP apps for Windows 10. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
    - Microsoft/UWPCommunityToolkit  on GitHub
  • Fluent Design, 5 attributes
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Day 2 image

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The Activities

1. The shipping department has a fast, responsive, and powerful application for managing day to day duties

  • Progressive Web Apps: Speed up your web site responsiveness and allow for offline use with PWA

2. The product department has a modern, secure and forward-looking platform for managing product development life cycle

  • Windows Desktop Bridge(Centennial), Win32 App as UWP apps, using Win 10 API features,  Windows Hello Authentication

3. Consumers have a fun mobile experience

  • Xamarin Forms & AI, Image Capture and Cognitive Services

4. All platform services are integrated in one platform

  • Containers, Azure, Docker, CosmosDB, Kubernites, VSTS and Continuous Delivery.

 

Follow up links:

aka.ms/buildtour

 

In Sydney, one person completed all four labs which wasn’t achieved elsewhere. His prize: One of the clown bow ties!

 

 

Build Tour Sydney 2017

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