• [01:26] - Interacting with the File System
• [13:03] - How to modify files
• [16:11] - What are web services?
• [27:34] - REST services and serialization
• [43:34] - Asychronous programming

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: OOP, Managed Languages and C#
• Mod 02: Complex Types, Object Interfaces and Inheritance
• Mod 03: Controlling Programmatic Flow, and Manipulating Types and Strings
• Mod 04: Code Reflection and Working with Garbage Collection
• Mod 05: Type and Value Validation, and Encryption Techniques
• Mod 06: Splitting Assemblies, WinMD, Diagnostics and Instrumentation
• Mod 07: Interacting with the File System, and Leveraging Web Services
• Mod 08: Using LINQ to Objects and XML, and Serialization

Abstract
Windows Store apps will give users a great experience. Apps promise the user to be alive and connected. Being connected means interfacing with services and the cloud. But what options do we have to make the connection to the outside world? In this session, we'll explore how WinRT apps can connect with services (WCF, REST...) and the cloud to offer a great experience. We'll also see how internals like roaming data can be used in your apps.

Speaker: Gill Cleeren

Download the slides.

Extra
- Belgian app builders: discover your new home: http://msdn.be/apps AKA the Apps on Windows portal.
- Working on Windows 8 app and need some expert advice? Attend an App Clinic!
- Have a look at the next events we have planned for developers in Belgium: http://msdn-events.be 

• [00:10] Office 2013 is now code complete! Learn more at: http://www.office.com/preview
• [00:30] Microsoft Press has released many new books for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. See them here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/Microsoft_Press     
• [01:25] There are two new Microsoft Jump Starts coming soon! Sign up for the Windows 8 (http://aka.ms/Windows8JumpStart) and the Windows Server 2012 (http://aka.ms/Server2012JumpStart) Jump Starts today!
• [02:35] Take our 6^th Annual IT Pro Survey so we can learn more about the industry's demand for salaries and skills: http://aka.ms/ITProSkillSurvey

Technical Interview: At [04:25] Symon talks with Justin Incarnato, a Senior Program Manager for System Center, about the upcoming changes in System Center 2012 SP1 for Orchestrator. After explaining the release cycle for Service Pack 1, Justin gives an overview of Orchestrator and its history in joining the System Center 2012 family after Microsoft's acquisition of Opalis. Symon and Justin then talk about the importance of integration in a private cloud environment and how Orchestrator has the ability to support and automate processes for virtually any piece of software or hardware in the datacenter, including VMware. Next they discuss the enhancements made for SP1, including: improved System Center integration; new Integration Packs for Azure, REST, FTP, and Exchange; support for Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012; and globalization efforts that give the product many new language options. At [12:25] Justin demos a series of workflows, including cloning VMs in a VMware vSphere environment, integrating alerts with HP Operations Manager, and updating calendar appointments with Exchange with Office 365.

Connect with the Edge Team:

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Abstract
We, community members, all like to join as many interesting events as possible. However combining events from multiple user groups is quite a challenge for both the organizers and the visitors. That's why some of us community citizens did step up to create a single place grouping the calendars of the different Belgian communities. In this session Bart and Glenn will go deeper in building a REST-based Windows 8 application, both backend and frontend. The community calendar application also provides the possibility to search, share and register for events using some of the available Windows 8 contracts.

Speakers
Bart Lannoeye & Glenn Versweyveld

Build your Windows 8 app now! Make it real within 4 simple steps: http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/metromap/buildyourapp.html

Using a Servo in a .NET Gadgeteer Camera Device

The Gadgeteer.Interfaces.PWMOutput interface can support the use of a servo to move mechanical parts of a device as needed by applications. This example uses the Gadgeteer.Interfaces.PWMOutput interface and a servomechanism to turn a camera through an arc of about 140 degrees. The Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) input for this servo is obtained from a WCF REST Web service running on a remote IIS Server. The user can direct the camera to take pictures over its range of motion from any device that can send a Web request to the service. After the camera takes a picture, the device generates a POST request to upload the picture to the Web service so it is accessible remotely. The post: Controlling the Servo using a Windows Phone Application describes a client application for the device and Web service.

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The core of this application is the code that polls the Web Service to get the PWM number that controls the servo. The number is a percentage of the delta between the top and bottom PWM settings, an unsigned integer that indicates a percentage of the range: 1% - 100%. The Web service returns the number to the application to be used in the SetPulse method of the Gadgeteer.Interfaces.PWMOutput interface.

Wiring the servo requires connecting the input wire to a pin on a P socket that supports pulse width modulation. The external power for the servo motor has to come from an external battery or transformer that supplies about 5 volts DC. The socket connections can be wired using the GHI Electronics Extender Module.

uint pulse = low + (delta * percent / 100);

servo.SetPulse(20000000, pulse);

Here is a schematic of the servo-control circuit from the GHI Electronics Extender module. Following the schematic, a photo shows the wiring. Only pin 9 and the ground on pin 10 are needed for the PWM circuit.

Implementing a REST Web service can be done with the WCF REST Web Service Template 4.0. For more information on using the template project, see REST Web Service to Record Data from a .NET Gadgeteer Sensor Device and Remote Control of .NET Gadgeteer Device via REST Web Service.

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The Web service code that receives the picture from the camera module is shown in the following blocks. Implementing the Web service to manage state information was easy, but getting the bitmap data into a format that works on this service took some discussion. Marco Minerva is skilled in this area and provided some of this code in a discussion that you can follow on an MSDN WCF forum thread.

First the classes to store data and maintain state:

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The WCF REST Web service template 4.0 works fine for the GET and for the POST methods.

The Web.config file for the Web service follows.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
</system.web>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
<add name="UrlRoutingModule" type="System.Web.Routing.UrlRoutingModule, System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
</modules>
</system.webServer>
<system.serviceModel>
<serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true"/>
<standardEndpoints>
<webHttpEndpoint>

<!--
Configure the WCF REST service base address via the global.asax.cs file and the default endpoint via the attributes on the <standardEndpoint> element below
-->

<standardEndpoint name="" helpEnabled="true"
automaticFormatSelectionEnabled="true" maxReceivedMessageSize="4194304"
transferMode="Buffered" />
</webHttpEndpoint>
</standardEndpoints>
</system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

For more information about the WCF Web services, see the forum discussion:

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Controlling the Servo using a Windows Phone application

In the post Using a Servo in a .NET Gadgeteer Camera Device we saw how to create a .NET Gadgeteer application that uses a Servo to change the direction of the Camera, takes a photo and uploads it to a Web Service. Now, we’ll realize a Windows Phone application to remotely control the camera and show the pictures.

Let’s create a standard Windows Phone Application, named CameraControl, targeting OS version 7.1 (Mango). We use too Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit, that can be downloaded from CodePlex site. The user interface is very simple and consists of an area where the last taken photo is shown and a slider with which we can control the direction of the camera:

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The application is developed using the MVVM pattern. We have only one ViewModel, called MainViewModel. It uses the REST Web Service already described in the post Using a Servo in a .NET Gadgeteer Camera Device: in particular, the method to set the state of the servo and the one to get the last taken picture. Note that, to set the servo state, we need to send to the service a number that is a percentage of the delta between the top and bottom PWM settings. It’s an unsigned integer that indicates a percentage of the range: 1% – 100%. Communications are realized using RestSharp, a library that simplifies the process of making requests and processing REST responses in an asynchronous way.

And of course the source is available for download...

Walker Fenton and Brian Reischl of Sepial Labs talk with ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about why they chose Windows Azure to connect to the various phones. Brian explains how they used WCF using REST on Windows Azure. They do a demo of each phone using Azure to process messages across phone platforms using notifications. They show how you can sharie photos, videos, and locations.

For more information about the technologies used by Sepia Labs, see:

• Azure Table Encryption via Attribute
• REST on WCF
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone

About Glassboard

Glassboard is an app for sharing privately with groups (or 'boards' as we call them). With Glassboard you can message a group of people quickly & easily (looks like a text on your phone but it isn't!), share photos and videos, and even show your location when appropriate. Everything within a board is _completely_ private. Only the board chair can invite you to a board, and there is no way for someone not invited to search or discover a board. It's your own private corner of the Internet. 

Sepia Labs is a spinoff from NewsGator, from SharePoint partner of Social Sites.

For more information see this blog post.

Ron Jacobs  
http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs
Twitter: @ronljacobs http://twitter.com/ronljacobs

Resources:

• Stephane's blog: http://www.silver-it.com/
• SharePoint contributions:
  http://sptoolbasket.codeplex.com
  http://sptoolbasket2010.codeplex.com/

Ron Jacobs
http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs
Twitter: @ronljacobs

Recorded live as part of mvcConf 2

About Ian Robinson
Ian Robinson is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he specializes in the design and delivery of service-oriented and distributed systems. He has written guidance for Microsoft on implementing integration patterns with Microsoft technologies, and has published articles on business-oriented development methodologies and distributed systems design - most recently in The ThoughtWorks Anthology (Pragmatic Programmers, 2008).

For more info

• Try the Project Template from Visual Studio
• Download the sample code from Code Gallery 
• Read about it on my blog

This session is presented by Aaron Skonnard during Microsoft DevDays 2010 in The Hague in The Netherlands.

The PHP Toolkit  is an open source project available on Codeplex at phpdataservices.codeplex.com. The goal is to make it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of the ADO.NET Data Services (ADO.NET Data Services offer a simple way to expose any sort of data in a RESTful way, more details here).

The video starts with a quick introduction and architecture white boarding session, followed by a demo.

Enjoy!

Additional resources:

• Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services on Interoperability Labs & Bridges
• Codeplex Project site: phpdataservices.codeplex.com
• Blog post "A new bridge for PHP developers to .NET through REST: Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services"
• ADO.NET Data Services on MSDN

For additional information on WCF REST capabilities, please check out the REST in WCF Dev Center on MSDN and the .NET Endpoint team blog.

For additional information on WCF REST capabilities, please check out the REST in WCF Dev Center on MSDN and the .NET Endpoint team blog.

In this screen cast I will demo how to secure a restful web service using WeServicebHost2Factory and Request Interceptors in WCF Rest Starter Kit. i will implement both Basic Authentication Request Interceptor and also Authorization Header token based authentication.

The demo code is posted here - Code –

http://cid-0666e397c5ca74dd.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Screencast/ProjectService.zip

Previous Screencast - http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/ashishjaiman/WCF-35-RESTful-web-service/ 

Other resources –
http://aspnet.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=24644
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/cc950529.aspx