Transcript Windows 8 applications with Azure backends

Windows 8 applications with
Azure backends
Mihai Tataran
General Manager, Avaelgo
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
Objectives
• Understand the basic principles to develop a Windows 8 application,
with an Windows Azure (Mobile Services) backend
Agenda
• Modern UI applications
• HTML5, WinJS, Controls
• Windows 8 Platform
• Windows Azure introduction
• Windows Azure Mobile Services
HTML 5 and Javascript
• HTML5
• Indexed DB
• App Cache
• Web Workers
• Canvas
• SVG
• FormData
• CSS3 animations &
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transitions
XHR
FileAPI
Web Sockets
Geolocation
PostMessage
Modern UI apps
• Only the HTML5 DOCTYPE
• Single window
• All the device’s screen
• Access to Windows Runtime
Modern UI apps: runtime
HTML Host Process
App Code
App Container
WinJS
• The library for Modern UI style apps
• Matches the Windows Modern UI design style
• Designed for touch as well as traditional input
• Scales across form factors
UI Controls
• Designed for touch, mouse, keyboard
• Everyday widgets
• Text editing
• Scrolling content
• Presenting data
• Commanding surfaces
Process states
App
launch
Splash
screen
Low
memory
Suspend state
• No CPU, Disk or Network consumed
• All threads are suspended
• Apps remain in memory
• Apps instantly resumed from suspend when brought
to foreground
• Exception: Background tasks
Termination
• System needs more memory
• User switch occurs
• System shutdown
• Apps crash
• Application is not notified
Saving state
• sessionState in WinJS
• Windows.Storage.ApplicationData to save application
state
Saving / restoring state
Scenario
You should….
User is using your App
Save user data incrementally
App switched away from
(Suspending)
Save where the user is – what screen they are on, for
example
Not running App launched by
user (Activated)
Bring the user back and restore their session as if they
never left
Suspended App launched by
user (Resuming)
Do nothing
Charms
• Some kind of Start Bar
• Ideal manner to use device’s settings
• Or any other app specific settings
Share contracts
• Predefined contracts in Metro
Demo
• Win 8 Apps
Agenda
• Modern UI applications
• HTML5, WinJS, Controls
• Windows 8 Platform
• Windows Azure introduction
• Windows Azure Mobile Services
Windows Azure introduction
• The cloud platform offered by Microsoft
• Infrastructure as a Service
• Platform as a Service
• Run websites and applications in the cloud
• Run (backend) web services in the cloud
• Storage: tables, blobs, etc.
• SQL Database
What is Windows Azure Mobile Services?
Demo
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