Quote: Norwegian write code like they win medals…………. More per person than any other country in the world. But first some stats:
3.4 million developers build solutions around SharePoint
Microsoft has two key missions in the developer community
- Give organizations maximum agility to meet business needs
- Give partners the biggest opportunity
Contextual applications
When building contextual apps, they want to deliver something great.
- We give a great experience
- Built with robust api’s so it’s just a service and you control the UI
- Announcing a new open source sdk for android
- Can see it on Github
- Will continue to increase and improve the api’s
- Third parties will have inter-operable services to make it possible for composite apps
- Will support custom designed services
- Could be on Azure using their storage, db, and other services
- Flexible tools
- Want to support configuration and 1 million lines of code apps
- Will focus on this week of Access as part of Office 365
- Easiest way to build a cloud based application
- Professional developer
- Intend to add Java, C, Ruby, etc.
- Taking Visual studio to the next level with new debugging support, etc.
- Demo by Arpan Shah of the improved development tools
- Instead of code on stage, wanted to take a solution and extend it.
- Started with a custom list with custom workflow
- Want to make it a lot more contextual
- Go to outlook, see email from “Bill” to launch a new developer campaign
- Compose apps let you select an application in Outlook
- Just html5 integration via Office 365 services
- Integrates the list and even the people
- Even lets you see who is out of office
- Can upload a document to the list in Outlook
- Submit makes a call to SharePoint to kick off a process
- Showed the alert on the windows phone
- The app was built in windows phone using the REST api’s
- Then showed a notification in an Android tablet
- Launched a custom android app using the new SDK
- API’s let you now provision a SharePoint site
