Presentation to the Silverlight User Group in London on October 12th to provide a round-up of the recent BUILD conference in LA and an introduction to Windows 8 and the Windows Runtime.

1. build Is Silverlight Dead or Not? / / / / round-up

2. Who am I? Derek Lakin@dereklakin Senior User Experience Developer@ Pixel Lab http://thinkpixellab.com Evernote RunKeeper SketchFlow for Windows Phone Agent 008 Ball

3. Agenda DEMO: Windows 8 Keynote highlights Windows Runtime overview DEMO: Converting Silverlight to WinRT Silverlight and .NET on Windows 8 Summary Q & A

4. Demo Windows 8

6. Fast and fluid

7. Integrated web of applications

8. Sharing

9. Pickers

10. Search

12. Windows 8 Experience Fast and fluid user experienceResponsive, alive and beautiful with animations and Metro style Immersive and full-screenFocuses attention on your apps Touch-first with full keyboard and mouseEnables your choice of interaction Web of apps working togetherApps are connected to each other and the cloud Experience for all PC devices & architecturesNo compromise across new factors, desktops and laptops

13. Developer Platform & Tools New APIs and tools to build Metro appsDelivers a modern platform, great tools, accelerated graphics Rapid and scalable development of Metro appsIncludes powerful touch-enabled controls, layouts, and templates Choice of world-class dev tools & languagesSupports coding in JavaScript, C#, VB, C++, HTML/CSS, XAML for x86/x64/ARM Business opportunity is the world of Windows 8 customersIntroduces the Windows Store

14. Hardware Platform Smaller and faster on widest range of hardware Native SoC implementation across x86/x64/ARM Integrated support for broad range of new mobile peripherals

15. Cloud Services New Metro style apps for Mail, Photos, Calendar, PeopleConnects to Live and the other services you use Sync across your PC devices and phoneEnables clean start on new device and roaming between devices SkyDrive for the information you create and care aboutStores and shares your photos, documents, and files to the cloud Live APIs for SkyDriveBuild your own cloud connected Metro style apps

17. connect.microsoft.com

18. dev.windows.com

21. Windows available in your choice of language and environment

22. One Windows API, Natural and Familiar EverywhereDon’t need to understand how it worksbut …

23. Metro Style Application APIs User Interface HTML5/CSS XAML DirectX Controls Data Binding Input Accessibility Printing Tiles SVG Devices Communications & Data Web Contracts Sensors Geolocation Portable NFC Local & Cloud Storage Streams Notifications Media SMS Background Transfer XML Networking Visual Effects Playback PlayTo Capture Fundamentals Application Services Memory Management Threading/Timers Authentication Cryptography Globalization

24. Windows 8 Metro style Apps Desktop Apps HTML JavaScript HTML / CSS XAML View JavaScript (Chakra) C/C++ C#, VB Model Controller C C++ C# VB Windows Runtime APIs Devices & Printing Communication & Data Graphics & Media System Services .NET SL Win32 IE Application Model Windows Kernel Services Kernel

25. Windows Runtime Architecture Language Support (CLR, WinJS, CRT) Metro style app Language Projection Web Host (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)) UI Pickers Media Controls Windows Metadata & Namespace XAML Storage … Network Runtime Broker Windows Runtime Core Windows Core

26. Windows Metadata Concise, complete description of the Windows Runtime Generated natively from C++ or C#/VB compiler Efficient binary format Rich enough to allow multi-language projection generation Full IntelliSense on statically known information

27. Basic Types

28. Common Patterns

32. Runtime Object brokering

33. Threading

34. VersioningCheck out the detailed sessions for more information if you need it

35. Demo Converting Silverlight to WinRT

37. No behaviors; use attached properties

38. No designer-supported font embedding

39. No RichTextBox; use RichTextBlock

40. No pixel shaders (Effect property)

42. .NET Lives! Windows Phone .NET Framework 4.5 .NET Profile for Metro style apps Silverlight 5

43. The .NET Perspective usingWindows.Storage; using System; using System.IO; usingSystem.Threading.Tasks; classSample { staticasyncTaskWriteAsync(StorageFolderwrtfolder, string filename, string text) { varwrtFile = awaitwrtFolder.CreateFileAsync(filename); varwrtStream = awaitwrtFile.OpenAsync(FileAccessMode.ReadWrite); using (Streamstream = wrtStream.OpenWrite()) { using (var writer = newStreamWriter(stream)) { writer.WriteLine(text); } } } } Native namespace Native type Native method C# feature Managed argument passed to native API Managed type returned from a seemingly native method

44. Removed, Replaced, Changed System.Web System.Data System.Runtime.Remoting Private reflection Application Domains

45. Removed, Replaced, Changed

46. Removed, Replaced, Changed

47. Anything Else? xmlnsxmlns:local="clr-namespace:<namespace>;assembly=MyAssembly>" DispatcherDispatcher.BeginInvoke( (s, a) => { … }); Async// Lots of convoluted code xmlnsxmlns:local="using:<namespace>;" DispatcherDispatcher.Invoke(CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, (s, a) => { … }, this, null); Asyncvar x = await foo.DoAsync();

48. So, is Silverlight dead or not? Summary

49. Predictions Windows 8 will have multiple SKUs with and without the Desktop and Metro shell The next major update to Windows Phone will move to Windows Runtime HTML5 + JavaScript is the next “big thing” There won’t be another major update to Silverlight (beyond v5) or WPF But … XAML isn’t going anywhere Disclaimer: These are my personal thoughts and opinions and are not based on any insider information, neither do they necessarily reflect the opinions of anyone else, let alone my employer.

50. Resources Metro from the Trencheshttp://metrotrenches.wordpress.com Windows DevCenterhttp://dev.windows.com Windows Dev Forumshttp://forums.dev.windows.com

51. Parting Thoughts “this is the most excited I've been about Microsoft for 5 years” - Robby Ingebretsen “Microsoft is really investing in user experience” - Laurent Bugnion “The new Windows 8 Start screen isn’t just a good idea, it’s a great interface that will make sense on phones, tablets, PCs of all stripes, and even servers. And before you know it, you’ll forget all about that old-fashioned Start menu.” – Paul Thurrott

52. Q & A What do you want to know?