C# Client to Cloud

Talk given to London Azure community group
Covering Azure, WP, MonoTouch, MonoDroid, MvvmCross

Transcript

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3. 1. How can we eat? 2. Why do we eat? 3. Where shall we have lunch? Survival, Inquiry, Sophistication “The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?” ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
4. Survival to Sophistication 486 – 100MHz “Optimal” 8 MB RAM 13 floppy disks “Max” 2GB Hard Disk 28.8k US Robotics Modem 2 Cores – 1.5GHz 1 GB RAM OTA Upgrade 32GB Flash Disk + 7GB online 4G, WiFi, NFC, BlueTooth £1200 £400
5. C# Cloud C# Clients C# Cloud-Client Communication C# Code Real App Examples Q&A On with some engineering…
6. Shared code across mobile and cloud “low level”: compiles, typesafe, quick Native performance Native look and feel Testable Libraries: commercial and open – and nuget! Generics, Linq, async/await and the future… You already have: skills, tools, code Why C#?
7. Hey Dude - Javascript – it’s Amazeballs Yes Yes Yes But… “Our biggest mistake was betting too much on HTML5” http://bitly.com/QhPf5L
8. Storage – lots of it Connectivity – lots of it. Continuous. Global Processing – lots of it. Scalable. Burstable. Privacy/Security Quick updateability Toys – ACS, Queuing, CDN, TrafficManager, Caching, Services, … Why Azure?
9. Azure is: big cheap Azure is not: infinite free Important
10. Examples: Faster Solutions Lottery Results Web Role Storage Worker Role Push
11. TweetPic Demo: Code Azure Website Azure Storage SQL Azure
12. Storage: SQL via EF Code First
13. Storage: Azure Blob Uploads
14. Data Services: WCF oData
15. Data Services: Json ASP .Net MVC
16. • Switch to ApiController – WebApi • Consider Azure Mobile Services • ‘Legacy’ WCF also fully supported Data Service: More Options * well…. almost fully ;) *
17. Data Services: Size Matters JSON list of 100 pictures XML Gzip JSON 58kB 21kB 2kB JSON
18. Server: Storage: Code First Entity Framework Azure C# SDK Logic/Services: Custom C# Twitterizer Presentation: ASP .NET MVC (Json) WCF (oData) Recap: TweetPic Server Sophistication: Lots of C# Server technologies are available: nHibernate RavenDB Lucene.Net MVC Async (+SignalR) ServiceStack Azure - Access Signatures WebAPI OpenRasta Simple.Web Nancyfx FubuMvc ASMX and WebForms ProtocolBuf.Net …
19. Survival: Simple TweetPic Client WP7 XAML + C# CodeBehind
20. Survival: Simple TweetPic Client
21. Inquiry: TweetPic Client Service Consumption Business Logic Local Data/Services UI Logic - ViewModels Presentation - WP7 – XAML
22. Sophistication: TweetPic Clients Service Consumption Business Logic UI Logic - ViewModels WP7 – XAML Win8 – XAML iOS – XIB/MT.D Droid – AXML Local Data/Services
23. Sophistication: Prove it - Test it
24. Sophistication: TweetPic clients
25. Declarative Presentation
26. C# App Stack WP7 iOS Droid Win8 Data Access Business Logic Presentation Service Consumption Business Logic Local Data/Services UI Logic
27. Examples: RunSat Non Cloud Web Site Blob Storage SQL Server
28. Examples: SQLBits Conference App
29. Azure Website based Service Download Twitter Authentication Checkin Checkin Scoreboards Photo Upload Examples: Azure London Conference App
30. Example: Azure London Conference App Open source helps! • Xamarin Mobile API • Redth/Zxing control • Reactive.Net • …
31. Examples: Xbox Advertising Apps
32. Example: Xbox Advertising Apps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPC8V-W_CKg
33. Example: Xbox Advertising Apps
34. Examples: AzureApp
35. Mobile Services? WP7 iOS Droid Win8 Data Access Business Logic Presentation Service Consumption Business Logic Local Data/Services UI Logic Azure Mobile Services
36. Mobile Services?
37. C# Cloud C# Clients C# Cloud-Client Communication C# Code Real App Examples Q&A Recap
38. azure.com asp.net/web-api windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile winX dev - create.msdn.com Mono - xaminars from xamarin.com PCL - blogs.mdsn.com/b/dsplaisted mvvm - github.com/slodge/mvvmcross For more inspiration:
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