Welcome to Windows 8

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Thanks to

Martin Luther King Jr.

Peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but a means by which we

arrive at that goalParaphrased from Christmas Sermon 1967

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About @talbott

• ThirdM Solutions Architect• SharePoint Consultant• Microsoft F# MVP• Author, Blogger, Tweeter

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What is Windows 8

The next OS release from Microsoft

The Beta is expected February

“Developer Preview”Pre-beta Download Available

Distinctive “touch first”

Metro User Experience

Demonstration

1. Tiles2. Metro apps3. Transfer between desktop and

start screen

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Which version should I install?

I am a power user–Windows 8 Developer Preview 32-bit (x86)–Windows 8 Developer Preview 64-bit (x64)

I am a developer–Windows 8 Developer Preview with

developer tools 64-bit (x64)• Burn ISO to disk requires DVD+R DL (double

layer)

Power User

Developer

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Bare metal vs Virtual machine

• Bare metal– Fastest– Need a dedicated machine or dual boot

• Virtual machine– Disposable– One level of indirection

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Steps (for installing on bare metal)

• Get a Windows Live ID – if you don’t already have one

• Download ISO• Burn DVD*• Boot computer up with DVD• Install OS• Use a Windows Live ID to log in

for the first time• Run Windows Update

* For developers, be sure to use the “with developer tools” image and DVD+R DL disk

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Windows Update

• Installs drivers• Updates Visual Studio 11 bits• Check your “Device Manager” to see

if you have any missing device drivers– If you do, go to your computer vendor

and download Windows 7 drivers for the missing components

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The Software

• For MSDN subscribers– Install Office 2010

• For Developers– First test Visual Studio 11 Express

• Metro Windows 8 only templates

– Install Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview• Gives you the rest of the development suite for

desktop application development, ASP.NET, etc…

• Run Windows Update (again… lots of patches)

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Personalize

• Install your favorite development and productivity tools

• Install Firefox or some other browser in case IE10 preview can’t connect to the sites– Dell.com support

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Where is the Start Menu?

• Simple fixhttp://twitter.com/talbott (link to my blog)

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Configure Desktop

• Add Program Menu– Or Start Menu

• Add Shut down shortcut– Hibernate, Sleep, Restart, etc…

• Add icons to desktop (Control Panel)

Demonstration

1. Add Start / Programs menu to desktop

2. Add Shutdown / Sleep / Restart shortcuts

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What is Metro?

• User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) guidelines

• Bauhaus influenced• “Chromeless” – Omission of lots of

unnecessary borders

• Introduced in 2010 with Windows Phone 7

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Metro Design Principals

• Clean, Light, Open, Fast, Flow• Alive and In Motion• Content not Chrome• Celebrate Typography• Authentically Digital

See Paul Laberge’s post: http://bit.ly/metrods

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Metro vs Desktop

• Metro is the primary interface for Windows 8 tablet and touch screen interface

• Desktop is similar to Windows 7 traditional UI

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Charms

• Contracts for– Share– Search– Devices

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Snapping

• Allows for 2 apps at the same time

• Build your applications to format nicely when snapped

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Application Bar

• Right-click• Swipe from bottom– Demo: Weather and IE

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Using Internet Explorer

• When a page doesn’t work in Metro(Youtube Flash for example)

–Right-click to access the Application Bar

–View in Desktop Mode

Use desktop

view

Flash now works

Demonstration

1. Browser tricks

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WinRT – Back to the Future

• WinRT is “closer to the metal” than .NET

• Evolution of COM• Highly performant (pick a language)– C++• Most direct access

– JavaScript + HTM5– C#/VB.NET/F#

Evolution of Windows API’s(How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the

WinRT)

Windows Runtime Overview

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1990’s

• Win 32 abstraction layer for developers to target old (Win95) and new (NT) operating systems

Win32

Windows 95

Windows NT 4

My VB 4 AppMy C++

App

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2002-2007

• .NET allowed for simpler development

• Still abstracted by Win32

• Native apps using VB6 and C++ still popular

Win32

Windows 2000 / XP

My VB 7 or C# App

.NET

My VB 6 App

VB 6

C#VB.NE

T

My C++ App

C++

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2007-2012

.NET Rules multiple platforms and becomes the new abstraction layer

Windows, Silverlight, Azure, WP7, etc…

Windows XP,Vista,

Windows 7

My Desktop .NET App

.NET

My Cloud .NET App

AzureSilverlightWindows Phone 7

My C++ App

C++

C#VBF# C#VBF#

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2012-2017

Windows XP,Vista,

Windows 7

My .NET AppMy Windows 8/Metro App

Windows 8

.NET Windows Runtime

.NET

C++

JavaScript

C#VBF#C#VBF#

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Windows XP,Vista,

Windows 7

My .NET AppMy Windows 8/Metro App

Windows 8

.NET Windows Runtime

.NET

C++

JavaScript

C#VBF#C#VBF#

.NET & WinRT

Using the Windows Runtime from C# and Visual Basichttp://bit.ly/winrtfromvb Harry PiersonJesse Kaplan

//build

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As covered at //buildWindows Runtime

Demonstration

1. Building a Metro Style Application

XAML is the Common Denominator

Silverlight CLR

Windows Presentati

on Foundatio

n

Windows Phone

Metro / Mobile Aps

Windows Runtime

(WinRT)

.NET Framework

Desktop Apps

Desktop CLR

Common Language Runtime

Windows Phone CLR

Silverlight

XAMLWindows 8

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WinRT versus .NET Framework

Area .NET Framework

Metro WinRT

User Interface

Silverlight and Windows Phone components

New Namespace:Windows.UI.Xaml.*

I/O synchronous async/await

Strorage Isolated Storage Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current

Threading ThreadPool Task

Reflection Type.GetMethods Type.GetTypeInfo().DeclaredMethods

Misc IComparable Icomparable<T>

See: http://bit.ly/net2metro

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Other Exiting News

• The names and release dates may change• Microsoft wants to insure quality over date

• Silverlight 5 (released)• SQL Server 2012 (release candidate zero)• Visual Studio 2012 (I’m guessing the name)• Azure SDK 1.6 (released)• Azure support for Java, PHP, node.js,

Hadoop

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Videos

• Build Conference http://www.buildwindows.com/

• ScottGu on Azure http://bit.ly/azuregu

• Pluralsight (subscription)http://pluralsight.com

Trivia Quiz

Who is the guy in the middle?

Trivia Quiz : Answer

Bob Marley

BunnyWailer

PeterTosh

1965

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Call to action

• Power Users– Download Windows 8 today and play

around with it

• Developers– Learn XAML if you haven’t already

• Silverlight 5• Windows Phone 7• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

– Download Windows 8 with Developer Tools and build Metro Apps!

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