2015 HIGHLIGHTS

praveen nair

blog.ninethsense.com

HOLOLENS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hglZb5CWzNQ

Annual conference event held by Microsoft

Aims Windows, Windows Phone & Azure developers

Started in 2011

What is //build/?

//build/ 2014

Windows Display Driver Model 2.0 and DirectX 12

Microsoft Cortana

Windows Phone 8.1

Windows 8.1 Spring Update

Windows free on all devices with a screen size of 9" or less and on IoT

.NET Native

Bing Knowledge widget and app linking

Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC

Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 RTM

TypeScript 1.0

.Net Foundation

APRIL 29 TO MAY 01, 2015

- Registraiton Fee: $2095

- Sold out in under one hour

- Free HP Spectre x360 Ultrabook

Office platform

Office Graph API

Expanded Office add-in capabilities

Excel for iPad

Word and PowerPoint soon

Add-ins for Outlook.com

Unified APIs for enterprise and consumers

Outlook.com, OneNote, OneDrive

Simpler API endpoint access

graph.microsoft.com

New Skype Developer Platform

Office 365 Developer Program

Windows 10

Goal = Windows 10 on One Billion Devices within 2-3 years

of product availability

Free upgrade for the first year for new or existing Windows

7, 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1. Free updates for lifetime.

Cortana

Microsoft Edge browser

Holograms

Universal Windows Platform

Write once, run everywhere

Continuum

.NET/Win32/Android / iOS

Visual Studio & .NET

.NET Framework 4.6 RC

Visual Studio 2015 RC, C# 6, VB 14 & F# 4

Xamarin Starter Edition included as free optional feature

.NET Framework 4.6 RC

.NET Core – cross-platform (OS X, Linux), open source (45% done)

ASP.NET 5

DNX - .NET Execution Environment

Android (Java/C++)

iOS (Objective C)

Visual Studio Code

Linux, OSX, Windows

Supports most

languages

code.visualstudio.com

Explorer

Side by side editing

Auto save

Text search

Versioning

Debugging

Azure Data Lake

Microsoft’s hyperscale repository for big data analytic

workloads in the cloud

Built to handle high volumes of small writes

HDFS for the Cloud

Petabyte files, massive throughput

No account / size limits

Enterprise ready

High durability, availability and reliability

Microsoft Edge

Project ‘Spartan’

EdgeHTML engine

Lightweight

Performance

Does not support

ActiveX / BHO

Default browser for

Windows 10 devices

Microsoft Holographic & HoloLens

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THANK YOU

Build 2015: Keynote Highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimYbT8gPk8

Ref: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/04/29/net-

announcements-at-build-2015.aspx