This document summarizes the .NET Framework and Tools roadmap from 2006 to 2008. It outlines the releases of .NET Framework 3.0, 3.5, and 3.5 SP1 as well as Visual Studio releases. It also provides an overview of new features for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in these releases like enhanced graphics capabilities, new controls, and performance improvements. The document concludes with recommendations for tools to optimize WPF application performance.
This session discusses the business aspects of Microsoft Silverlight, including how to ramp up an agency to be ready for Silverlight and how to pitch Silverlight to your clients. Learn how to optimize current workflow, ramp up a team, and achieve a return on Silverlight investments. Learn how the differences between Silverlight 1.0 and 2 affect business and staffing strategy.
Bb on Tour 2016 | Innovation and Your Institution (Part 2) – Learn Roadmap Blackboard APAC
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Bb on Tour 2016 | Innovation and Your Institution (Part 2) – Learn Roadmap Blackboard APAC
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Rich Internet Applications with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
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Power Apps Component Framework - Dynamics Power! 365 Paris 2019 Allan De Castro
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For more information: https://www.365portal.org
Personal Blog : https://www.blog.allandecastro.com/
CLI319 Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack: Planning the Deployment of Micros...Louis Göhl
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Microsoft had launched Visual Studio 2015 Preview. Let try to know what's new in this release and point you more details. One of the other large announcements today is that we will open source the full server-side .NET core stack from ASP.NET 5 to the CLR and BCL and this version will run on Linux and MacOS X as well as Windows.
Since the majority of initial comments tend to be questions about supported configurations, I’ll put this up front: before you try to upgrade from Visual Studio "14" CTPs to Visual Studio 2015 Ultimate Preview, first uninstall Visual Studio "14" CTP – if you don’t, your system can wind up in an unstable state.
I’ve done a few CTPs of Visual Studio 2014 , and today they’re making a full Preview available with Visual Studio 2015. It includes cross platform device development in C++, an Android emulator, updated tooling for Apache Cordova, the open source .NET compiler platform, support for ASP.NET 5, and many IDE features.
Session 2: Expanding the Silverlight Reach - WPF and .NET Client Profileukdpe
Rich Internet Applications with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
In this event we’ll take a look at how you can build rich applications that deploy to the web and go beyond what you can typically do inside of a browser based application. We’ll have a look at how .NET programming comes to the cross-platform world of the web with Silverlight 2 and the framework and tooling surrounding Silverlight. We’ll then see how you can take that further to develop applications with Windows Presentation Foundation that go beyond the capabilities of Silverlight whilst still making use of the same skillset and tooling.
Power Apps Component Framework - Dynamics Power! 365 Paris 2019 Allan De Castro
This presentation was presented at the Dynamics Power! 365 event in Paris in 2019.
For more information: https://www.365portal.org
Personal Blog : https://www.blog.allandecastro.com/
CLI319 Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack: Planning the Deployment of Micros...Louis Göhl
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Microsoft had launched Visual Studio 2015 Preview. Let try to know what's new in this release and point you more details. One of the other large announcements today is that we will open source the full server-side .NET core stack from ASP.NET 5 to the CLR and BCL and this version will run on Linux and MacOS X as well as Windows.
Since the majority of initial comments tend to be questions about supported configurations, I’ll put this up front: before you try to upgrade from Visual Studio "14" CTPs to Visual Studio 2015 Ultimate Preview, first uninstall Visual Studio "14" CTP – if you don’t, your system can wind up in an unstable state.
I’ve done a few CTPs of Visual Studio 2014 , and today they’re making a full Preview available with Visual Studio 2015. It includes cross platform device development in C++, an Android emulator, updated tooling for Apache Cordova, the open source .NET compiler platform, support for ASP.NET 5, and many IDE features.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
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Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
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See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
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Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
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👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
5. WPF in a nutshell
Rich Windows Applications
Great Architecture + Great Graphics
Rapid Prototyping
2D, 3D, Vector, Document
Flow, Layouts, Composition, etc.
6. WPF 3.5 Enhancements
• .NET Framework • Interactive 2D on 3D • Cold Startup
Client Profile • Pixel Shaders and Improvements
• ~25MB client subset Effects Model • Several perf
of .NET Framework • DirectX Interop enhancements
• Customized install • New Controls • Profiling tools and
experiences instrumentation
Deployment Graphics Performance
7. .NET Client Profile
~25MB Client-only Subset of .NET Fx
Includes WinForms, WPF, LINQ, etc.
Excludes ASP.NET, WCF, etc.
200KB fully customizable Bootstrapper
8. .NET Framework Client Profile
Using the Client Profile Deployment option in Visual Studio 2008
SP1
9. WPF 3.0 Graphics Recap
Rich set of 2D drawing primitives
Basic 3D functionality via Viewport3D
Rich Media Integration
Extensive Animation System
Advanced Text Stack
Bitmap Effects
Imaging
Compositor
10. WPF 3.5 Graphics Enhancements
True Interactive 2D-on-3D
Pixel Shaders Effects Model
Hardware-Accelerated
HLSL Support
DirectX Interop
Interop Bitmap
Replaces Writeable Bitmap
Faster Layered Window Support
Animation Fixes
12. New Controls
Web Browser Control
Interop between HTML and WPF content
WPF -> HTML
WPF application can call script methods in HTML with
WebBrowser.InvokeScript
HTML -> WPF
Script in HTML can call methods and access properties
on WebBrowser.ObjectForScripting that are COM-
Visible with window.external
Load hosted HTML content from a stream or
string
Access the document object loaded in the
WebBrowser
13. New Controls
DataGrid Control
Available from WPF Toolkit
(www.codeplex.com/wpf)
CTP Release with several features, being further
improved upon
Ribbon-UI Control
Part of a future release with other controls and
style templates
15. Performance Enhancements
Greatly improved cold start time
>15% cold start gains for small apps
>35% cold start gains for large apps
XBAP cold start improvements (real +
perceived)
~10% faster XBAP cold start in addition to gains
above by improving the concurrency of the
ClickOnce download sequence
Instant (HTML) download progress UX to improves
perceived XBAP startup
16. Performance Enhancements
Splash Screen to improve perceived startup for
Standalone apps
New public SplashScreen APIs
Intuitive VS integration (3 clicks to enable)
“Add / New Item…/SplashScreen (WPF)”
Sample code available for existing apps or for
downlevel targeting
Downloadable VS Template from WPF Futures
(www.codeplex.com/wpf)
17. Perf Tools
Snoop
Generally useful to understand your app, view
element tree.
WPFPerf Suite
Perf “power toy”, a set of diagnostic tools
Visual Studio Profiler
Great for CPU profiling
VS Developer Edition and VS Team Suite
CLR Profiler for .NET
Shows managed memory usage and leaks
18. Perf Tools
Snoop
Use to understand the size of the app Visual tree
Useful to detect Virtualization related issues & large app trees
19. Perf Tools
Snoop
Customer app lessons learned:
Watch for conditions that may turn virtualization off:
• Make sure ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll=True
• Make sure VirtualizingStackPanel.IsVirtualizing=True
• Keep VirtualizingStackPanel as your default panel …or write own virtualized
panel.
• Avoid Grouping
# of elements can grow also when using rich
templates
Use Snoop to watch element count
20. Perf Tools
WPF Perf Suite
Available for external download (WPF SDK & forums)
Initial diagnosis of over-invalidation & software rendering
A set of tools:
Perforator: Analyzes general rendering behavior
Visual Profiler: Provides breakdown of an object's use of
WPF services, such as rendering and layout
String profiler (new): Analyzes where strings are being
allocated
Event Trace: Analyze events and generating event log files
Trace Viewer: Record, display, and browse ETW log files in a
WPF user-interface format
21. Perf Tools
WPF Perf Suite: Perforator
To detect low perf b/c SW rendering:
Tint SW rendering: Draws purple when falling back to SW (or when SW api
used, old driver, card, layered windows on XP, etc)
# SW Render Targets: If not 0, significant perf problem (old card, layered
windows on XP)
# HW Render Targets: # should be equal to the number of app windows
times # of display adapters. Indicates app running in HW
Low perf indicators
Large # of Intermediate Render Targets: additional images that WPF needs
in order to get content ready for drawing
Maximum SW/HW IRTs per Frame: Shows max # of surfaces needed to
render any one frame of the application. Usually caused by the use of
DrawingBrush, VisualBrush, Opacity, or Tile modes on a TileBrush. If # high
(e.g. > 7), indicates a potential perf issue
23. Perf Tools
WPF Perf Suite: Visual Profiler
Inspect the Visual Tree
Show “hot path” of layout time: Tints the elements in the
tree based on their time spent in layout
Shows inclusive/exclusive times and element counts
History graph of time breakdown: Helps identify whether
an application’s bottlenecks lie in
layout, rendering, animation, etc
25. Perf Tools
ETW Event Trace & Event Trace Viewer
Useful to view low-level WPF
ETW events.
WClientUceNotifyPresent: Use to
calculate frames-per-second
rendering perf (e.g. during
animation, video, etc)
WClientLayout: Use to calculate time
app spends in laying out controls
(e.g. during resize)
Can also use Xperf/Xperfinfo
27. References
What’s new in WPF 3.5 SP1?
http://windowsclient.net/wpf/wpf35/wpf-whats-new-35sp1.aspx
Introducing .NET Framework Client Profile
http://windowsclient.net/wpf/wpf35/wpf-intro-client-profile.aspx
Optimizing WPF App Performance MSDN paper
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970683.aspx
Snoop tool
http://www.blois.us/Snoop
Various performance related blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/jgoldb
28. Contact
Blog Address
www.thinkingMS.com/pandurang
Email Address
pandurang.nayak@microsoft.com