Moving to Forge and the Cloud with your existing .NET experience, with Augusto Goncalves

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Moving to Forge and the Cloud with Your
Existing .NET Experience
Augusto Goncalves
Forge Developer Advocate at Autodesk
November, 2017

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Class Summary
For over a decade Autodesk improved its .NET APIs for desktop apps.
And you, as a developer, learned how to master this technology
Now that the Cloud exposes lots of new features and technologies, how to migrate your code and
your knowledge?
This class will review what you need to refresh your .NET expertise and get ready
to leverage Autodesk Forge, Cloud connected apps and web-based apps.

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Key Learning Objectives
At the end of this class you’ll be able to:
§ Discover .NET technologies available for web development
§ Learn about integration with other web-services providers
§ Learn about the steps necessary to use Forge with .NET
§ Gain tips and tricks for existing desktop .NET developers

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Migration roadmap

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Roadmap
Your desktop
app as a plugin
Desktop app Hybrid (could enabled) Cloud
Your app
(standalone)
Your webapp
Fusion
plugin
(hydrid?)
Your app
here!

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Hybrid apps
(cloud connected)

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Technologies
What we need for this migration
• Learning
• Security
• REST
• JSON
• Packages
• Restsharp
• Newtonsoft.Json
• Autodesk.Forge

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Security
• Assembly security
• DLLs/EXEs are not secure, eventually get broken
• .NET assemblies can be decompiled, do not store sensitive information
• Check ConfuserEx tool
• Application architecture
• Design for security, keep sensitive information on the server
• Sensitive information must be encrypted during transfer and storage

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Hybrid architecture
Request
Response
Your cloud app
Other cloud
providers
Your desktop app

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Hybrid app demonstration

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2-legged scenario
Your desktop app
Your cloud app
Transform
metadata into a
XLS file
Source: github.comAutodesk-Forge/model.derivative-csharp-context.menu

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3-legged scenario
Your desktop app
Your cloud app End-use enter
credentials
Store access &
refresh token,
generate UID
Check UID and
read access token
Filter/transform
information
Store UID
Source: github.com/Autodesk-Forge/data.management-csharp-desktop.sample

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Cloud app demonstration

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Sample app demonstration
• 2-legged
Live: modelderivative.apphb.com
Source: github.com/Autodesk-Forge/model.derivative-WebAPI-sample
• 3-legged
Live: forgedatamanagement.apphb.com
Source: github.com/Autodesk-Forge/data.management-csharp-sample

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But what customers want?

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Request
Response
Your cloud app
Other cloud
providers
Your desktop app
Request
Response
Your browser client
Request
Response
App
Your mobile client or app
Database
Data at the
center

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What’s next?

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Deployment
• AppHarbor
Easy from Github
• Microsoft Azure
Super integrated with Visual Studio
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Flexible
• Many other .NET hosts…

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Further reading
• Developer Portal – Documentation
developer.autodesk.com
• Forge Blog
forge.autodesk.com/blog
• Samples at Github
github.com/Autodesk-Forge

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The ugly truth….

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• Ask for help
• Use well tested
packages
• Design for security
• The cloud brings:
• Connectivity
• Benefits
• Better experience!

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Thank you!
augusto.goncalves@autodesk.com
augustomaia

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