This document discusses Edge, an open source module for Node.js that allows Node.js applications to leverage .NET capabilities by calling .NET libraries and services. Edge allows Node.js code to call into .NET code and .NET code to call back into Node.js code in a non-blocking way within the same process. It supports multiple .NET languages like C#, F# and Powershell. Edge enables access to Windows capabilities like the event log, registry, performance counters and more. It is extensible via additional Edge modules for SQL, Powershell, and other languages/platforms. The document provides code examples and links to the Edge GitHub repository and additional Edge modules.

1. EDGE
http://instagram.com/p/l_BZUkBlCs/ (James L Kingston)

2. https://github.com/glennblock
https://twitter.com/gblock
“I should be
tweeting"

3. Make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone
Any Machine Data
HA Indexes
and Storage
Search and
Investigation
Proactive
Monitoring
Operational
Visibility
Real-time
Business
Insights
Commodity
Servers
Online
Services Web
Services
Servers
Security GPS
Location
Storage
Desktops
Networks
Packaged
Applications
Custom
ApplicationsMessaging
Telecoms
Online
Shopping
Cart
Web
Clickstreams
Databases
Energy
Meters
Call Detail
Records
Smartphones
and Devices
RFID

4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hometownzero/24989360/

5. OK you are writing a node app
What do you do if?
You need to leverage capabilities of the underlying OS.
You need to perform compute-intensive operations
You want to leverage 3rd party libraries not available in node?
You want to reuse existing internal libraries
?!?!?!?!?!?

6. Port to Javascript?

7. Write a native module?

8. Standup a service?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91707070@N03/8328791515

9. OR
live on the edge

10. https://twitter.com/tjanczuk
http://github.com/tjanczuk
Tomasz Janczuk

12. Edge in Mathematics
12
"A line or line segment that is the
intersection of two plane faces"
plane
planeedge

13. Edge in Nodematics
13
"A module that is the
intersection of node and .NET"
node
.netedge

15. Edge 101

16. What is edge?
16
Allows node to call .NET
node .net

17. 17
Allows .net to call back node
node .net

18. 18
Supports multiple languages
C# IronPython
F# Powershell

19. 19
In the same process!
node .net

20. 20
In a non-blocking fashion

21. Hello edge

22. Loading
scripts

23. Loading
dlls

24. Passing
data objects

25. Passing
functions

26. Passing
instances

29. More .NET
goodness

30. Windows
Event log

31. Registry

32. Perf Counters

33. Accessing
X509 cert store

34. Calling
SOAP Services

35. ZIP archives

36. Image
conversion

37. Windows Auth

38. Extensible via modules
38
Languages are pluggable!
edge
edge-sql edge-py edge-ps edge-fs

39. SQL

40. Powershell

41. scriptcs?

42. Linux?
42
edge-mono

44. npm install edge

45. The codez
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zlerf5v3xty6frz/edge_day_of_dotnet.zip

46. Links
http://github.com/tjanczuk/edge
http://github.com/dfinked/edge-ps
http://github.com/gblock/edge-scs

47. @gblock http://github.com/glennblock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11812960@N04/4050576435