Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Platform Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Platform http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/platform Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/platform en Fri, 24 May 2013 06:05:38 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 06:05:38 GMT Rev9 9 1 25 Parallels: Using Visual Studio on OSX Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac is a hypervisor-based virtualization solution that makes it easy to run any number of operating systems inside separate windows on your Mac desktop. For developers, this means you can simultaneously run Xcode on Mac and Visual Studio on Windows 8. The Parallels window behaves like a normal Mac window, so you can copy content from your desktop and place it directly into the Parallels virtual machine instance just as you would from one Mac window to another. You can even run Visual Studio (and other Windows applications) directly on the Mac OS X desktop (no Windows VM window, just the app).

For cross-platform development of iOS apps, Windows Store Apps, and Windows Phone 8 apps, Parallels is unparalleled since you can work with two different operating systems and related dev tools at the same time, in the same session, from the same desktop.

Here, Kurt Schmucker, a product manager at Parallels, gives a brief summary of Parallels Desktop 8 and demonstrates how to run Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 on your Mac without rebooting to a Windows partition first. Kurt demonstrates the Visual Studio Windows Phone emulator running along side the Xcode iPhone emulator.

 

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Parallels-Using-Visual-Studio-on-OSX Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac is a hypervisor-based virtualization solution that makes it easy to run any number of operating systems inside separate windows on your Mac desktop. For developers, this means you can simultaneously run Xcode on Mac and Visual Studio on Windows 8. The Parallels window behaves like a normal Mac window, so you can copy content from your desktop and place it directly into the Parallels virtual machine instance just as you would from one Mac window to another. You can even run Visual Studio (and other Windows applications) directly on the Mac OS X desktop (no Windows VM window, just the app). For cross-platform development of iOS apps, Windows Store Apps, and Windows Phone 8 apps, Parallels is unparalleled since you can work with two different operating systems and related dev tools at the same time, in the same session, from the same desktop. Here, Kurt Schmucker, a product manager at Parallels, gives a brief summary of Parallels Desktop 8 and demonstrates how to run Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 on your Mac without rebooting to a Windows partition first. Kurt demonstrates the Visual Studio Windows Phone emulator running along side the Xcode iPhone emulator.     402 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Parallels-Using-Visual-Studio-on-OSX Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:57:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Parallels-Using-Visual-Studio-on-OSX Charles Charles 27 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Parallels-Using-Visual-Studio-on-OSX/rss Platform Portable Virtualization Visual Studio Windows Phone Mac OSX iOS Windows 8 WinRT Inside Windows 8: Martyn Lovell and Elliot H Omiya - The Windows Runtime Windows 8 introduces an application programming model for building new kinds of user mode apps called Windows Store Apps. The name reflects the new way users discover, download, purchase, rate, and install applications on Windows 8: The Windows Store.

On Windows 8, underneath this new application model is the Windows Runtime (WinRT for short), which provides an API and ABI as well as services for these modern Windows applications. WinRT is a security sandbox and an advanced execution environment. It enables efficient interoperation among very different language "projections"—so, JavaScript, for example, can seamlessly interact with C++. 

What is WinRT, exactly? Why is it designed the way it is? What's the history of WinRT? What are the primary goals of this new technology? How did the Windows engineering team arrive at the design and implementation of this new Windows user mode development platform? These are the key questions addressed in this conversation with Windows Runtime engineering leaders Martyn Lovell and Elliot H Omiya (we call him EHO). Elliot and Martyn are two of the original WinRT architects. Watch as they tell us how it was conceived, how it works, and why COM is such a big part of the equation (it's not your grandmother's COM, mind you. WinRT is a very different COM than classic COM). 

Huge thanks to Martyn and EHO for this excellent conversation.

Tune in.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-8-Martyn-Lovell-and-Elliot-H-Omiya-The-Windows-Runtime Windows 8 introduces an application programming model for building new kinds of user mode apps called Windows Store Apps. The name reflects the new way users discover, download, purchase, rate, and install applications on Windows 8: The Windows Store.On Windows 8, underneath this new application model is the Windows Runtime (WinRT for short), which provides an API and ABI as well as services for these modern Windows applications. WinRT is a security sandbox and an advanced execution environment. It enables efficient interoperation among very different language "projections"—so, JavaScript, for example, can seamlessly interact with C++.  What is WinRT, exactly? Why is it designed the way it is? What's the history of WinRT? What are the primary goals of this new technology? How did the Windows engineering team arrive at the design and implementation of this new Windows user mode development platform? These are the key questions addressed in this conversation with Windows Runtime engineering leaders Martyn Lovell and Elliot H Omiya (we call him EHO). Elliot and Martyn are two of the original WinRT architects. Watch as they tell us how it was conceived, how it works, and why COM is such a big part of the equation (it's not your grandmother's COM, mind you. WinRT is a very different COM than classic COM). Huge thanks to Martyn and EHO for this excellent conversation. Tune in. 2841 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-8-Martyn-Lovell-and-Elliot-H-Omiya-The-Windows-Runtime Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:54:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-8-Martyn-Lovell-and-Elliot-H-Omiya-The-Windows-Runtime Charles Charles 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-8-Martyn-Lovell-and-Elliot-H-Omiya-The-Windows-Runtime/RSS Architecture COM Platform Programming Windows 8 WinRT WindowsContent Inside Windows 8 Platform Hygiene Yesterday, Google's Vic Gundotra proudly exclaimed that "I'm not interested in screwing over developers" as he piled on top of Dalton Caldwell's post accusing Facebook of being naughty on the platform front.   I'm not here to defend Facebook or Twitter or anyone else who takes lumps in Dalton's blog, but Vic's opportunistic post warrants a little scrutiny, as I always worry when people in power positions go over the top to proclaim what they're *not* doing (Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton come to mind).   I rather hope Google can back up the claim going forward, because it certainly hasn't in the past.  To be specific, I'm talking about things like ...

  • Google deprecating its SOAP Search API in favor of the more restrictive AJAX API ... see here
  • Google deprecating its Translation API ... see here
  • Google deprecating Tables and Records feeds for the Spreadsheets API ... see here
  • Google, well, just deprecating lots of APIs in general ... see here ... and then trying to pacify developers with  pitiful 1-year support commitments
  • Google jamming the websockets protocol onto developers before it was actually done, in a fiasco that was well-chronicled ... here was our take on it
  • Google head-faking web devs with Gears ... in 2008, Chrome + Gears was supposed to be the new desktop, but in 2011 Gears was pulled out of Chrome ... see here
  • Google marshaling the developer community around Open Social, only to put it out to pasture later ... see here
  • Google marshaling the developer community with an API for Google Buzz, only to pull the plug later
  • Google marshaling the developer community with an API for Google Wave, only to pull the plug later
  • Google doing next to nothing to solve the Android fragmentation conundrum for developers ... see here and here
  • Google making late payments to Android developers in Europe, exposing a number of other developer support pain points ... see here
  • Google welching on its promise to Mozilla to remove H.264 support from Chrome in support of their WebM science project, effectively forcing Mozilla to reverse course on H.264 ... see here

The list goes on and on.

Now, to be fair, Google is no different than any other platform provider, in the sense that we've all (including Microsoft), at one time or another, changed/reversed/adjusted course on a number of things over the years, either because of developer community feedback, technical strategy course-corrections, competitive pressures, "the world has changed" scenarios, etc., but a little humility goes a long way, and Vic's post, which All Things D describes as having a "sense of delight", contains none of it.   Ten-year support commitments are always helpful, too, but I'm not sure Google's big on those, either.  Maximizing the amount of developer investment in things like skills and code that come forward into new technologies is another piece that we continue to work hard at, but Google seems more inclined toward making a clean break with these sorts of things (and I'm being polite here).   Enough with the compare & contrast ... the point is this: opportunistically taking advantage of an anti-Facebook meme to grandstand about how Google+ is somehow the shining beacon of platform goodness just feels oily.  But more importantly, it deserves some proper context ... the reason Google is or isn't holding back on a write API for G+ is irrelevant ... this is about taking a humble tone in the wake of a dubious track record.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Vector/Platform-Hygiene Yesterday, Google's Vic Gundotra proudly exclaimed that "I'm not interested in screwing over developers" as he piled on top of Dalton Caldwell's post accusing Facebook of being naughty on the platform front.   I'm not here to defend Facebook or Twitter or anyone else who takes lumps in Dalton's blog, but Vic's opportunistic post warrants a little scrutiny, as I always worry when people in power positions go over the top to proclaim what they're *not* doing (Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton come to mind).   I rather hope Google can back up the claim going forward, because it certainly hasn't in the past.  To be specific, I'm talking about things like ... Google deprecating its SOAP Search API in favor of the more restrictive AJAX API ... see here Google deprecating its Translation API ... see here Google deprecating Tables and Records feeds for the Spreadsheets API ... see here Google, well, just deprecating lots of APIs in general ... see here ... and then trying to pacify developers with  pitiful 1-year support commitments Google jamming the websockets protocol onto developers before it was actually done, in a fiasco that was well-chronicled ... here was our take on it Google head-faking web devs with Gears ... in 2008, Chrome + Gears was supposed to be the new desktop, but in 2011 Gears was pulled out of Chrome ... see here Google marshaling the developer community around Open Social, only to put it out to pasture later ... see here Google marshaling the developer community with an API for Google Buzz, only to pull the plug later Google marshaling the developer community with an API for Google Wave, only to pull the plug later Google doing next to nothing to solve the Android fragmentation conundrum for developers ... see here and here Google making late payments to Android developers in Europe, exposing a number of other developer support pain points ... see here Google welching on its promise to Mozilla to remove H.264 s http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Vector/Platform-Hygiene Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:11:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Vector/Platform-Hygiene Tim O'Brien Tim O'Brien 19 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Vector/Platform-Hygiene/RSS Developer Developer Community Platform The Cloud Platform Story for some time now. As part of an internal event this month, we had this animation produced and I thought it was worth sharing. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Acoat/The-Cloud-Platform-Story I've been using the evolution of water supply as an analogy for the evolution of computing platforms for some time now. As part of an internal event this month, we had this animation produced and I thought it was worth sharing. 175 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Acoat/The-Cloud-Platform-Story Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:56:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Acoat/The-Cloud-Platform-Story Andrew Coates Andrew Coates 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Acoat/The-Cloud-Platform-Story/RSS Analogy Animation Cloud Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Platform Story CRM Incubation Week Videos: DubMeNow During 1st CRM Incubation Week, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce DubMeNow, Best Business Award winner. Enjoy the VIDEO starring Chris Hopkinson, Jay Danielian, Warren Wilbee.

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-DubMeNow During 1st CRM Incubation Week, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce DubMeNow, Best Business Award winner. Enjoy the VIDEO starring Chris Hopkinson, Jay Danielian, Warren Wilbee. Sanjay Jain ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain 253 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-DubMeNow Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:10:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-DubMeNow Sanjay Jain Sanjay Jain 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-DubMeNow/RSS BizSpark ISV Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform Sanjay Jain Startups CRM Incubation Week Videos: Channel Blade During 1st CRM Incubation Week, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce Channel Blade, Super Cool Award winner. Enjoy the video starring Nathan Haywood, Eulace Malloy, Frank Hagen, Sanjay Jain.

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

http://blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-Channel-Blade During 1st CRM Incubation Week, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce Channel Blade, Super Cool Award winner. Enjoy the video starring Nathan Haywood, Eulace Malloy, Frank Hagen, Sanjay Jain. Sanjay Jain ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain 252 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-Channel-Blade Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:08:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-Channel-Blade Sanjay Jain Sanjay Jain 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-Channel-Blade/RSS BizSpark Incubation Week ISV Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform Sanjay Jain Startups CRM Incubation Week Videos: Highland Martin During 1st CRM Incubation Week, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce Highland Martin, Best Business Award winner. Enjoy the VIDEO starring Keith Johnson, Eric Hood, Jason Eagleton, and Sanjay Jain.

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

http://blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-Highland-Martin During 1st CRM Incubation Week, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce Highland Martin, Best Business Award winner. Enjoy the VIDEO starring Keith Johnson, Eric Hood, Jason Eagleton, and Sanjay Jain. Sanjay Jain ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain 553 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-Highland-Martin Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:57:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-Highland-Martin Sanjay Jain Sanjay Jain 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-Highland-Martin/RSS BizSpark Incubation Week ISV Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform Sanjay Jain Startups CRM Incubation Week Videos: Prime Time Software Solutions During 1st CRM Incubation Week, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce Prime Time Software Solutions, Advisor Award winner. Enjoy the VIDEO starring Warren Wilbee, William (Bill) Smith, and Bobby L. Hebert.

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

http://blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-Prime-Time-Software-Solutions During 1st CRM Incubation Week, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce Prime Time Software Solutions, Advisor Award winner. Enjoy the VIDEO starring Warren Wilbee, William (Bill) Smith, and Bobby L. Hebert. Sanjay Jain ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain 268 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-Prime-Time-Software-Solutions Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:56:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-Prime-Time-Software-Solutions Sanjay Jain Sanjay Jain 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-Prime-Time-Software-Solutions/RSS BizSpark Incubation Week ISV Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform Sanjay Jain Startups CRM Incubation Week Videos: support4U Inc. During 1st CRM Incubation Week, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce Support4U Inc, Super Cool Award winner. Enjoy the video starring Warren Wilbee, Lon Orenstein, Alexey Korobko, and Jim Steger.

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

http://blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-support4U-Inc During 1st CRM Incubation Week, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce Support4U Inc, Super Cool Award winner. Enjoy the video starring Warren Wilbee, Lon Orenstein, Alexey Korobko, and Jim Steger. Sanjay Jain ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain 423 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-support4U-Inc Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:34:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-support4U-Inc Sanjay Jain Sanjay Jain 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/SanjayJain/CRM-Incubation-Week-Videos-support4U-Inc/RSS BizSpark ISV Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform Sanjay Jain Startups