Smart Clients: What’s New In Orcas? Saurabh Pant Program Manager UI Fx and Services Team

Smart Client Orcas Investments Sync Services for ADO.NET Client Application Services Designer support for WPF developers Spicing Up existing Windows Forms Applications using WPF Addressing Top Customer concerns for ClickOnce, Windows Forms and WPF

Sync Services for ADO.NET Simplifying the Client “Golden Nugget” ● Application works against a local data cache and periodically synchronizes with the server ● Experience unchanged on lost connectivity “Want local caching, but can’t spend time getting the basics right” ● All the heavy lifting handled by the Framework “Want to leverage/extend your my ADO.NET knowledge” “Want to build real world N tier Application” ● Sync via services with pluggable proxy/service ● Server Data Components can use any ADO.net Provider Application supports Occasionally Connected Scenarios

Sync Component Architecture Data Forms SyncAgent Data Access Work against local database Outlook Model Sync keeps the local and remote stores in sync Can push changes directly or via services SyncTable SyncAdaptercommands SyncAdapter ServerSyncProvider DBCommand SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 Transport Service ServiceProxy Client SyncProvider SyncGroup Server DB

Demo Sync Services for ADO.NET

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Client Application Services Scenario Facilitated … ● Application authenticates users, custom tailors UI for the logged in user and retrieves/stores users settings to/from a central web store ● Experience unchanged on lost connectivity Consistent Web/Client interaction with App Services Application supports Occasionally Connected Scenarios Web Server/IIS Web Laptop Client Application Web Services Web Page

Demo Client Application Services

Client App Services Resources

WPF is for Experience First apps VS Orcas for WPF development is focused on fundamentals ● Aimed at early adopter developer ● Covers production, e.g. build, debug, deploy ● WPF designer and XAML editor ● Facilitate designer/developer collaboration VS Orcas Designer support for WPF Code named “Cider”

Cider Feature Summary Rich Layout Tools Live Updating between Designer/XAML Selection Thumbnails Everywhere Live XAML Intellisense Selection Synchronization Element + XAML Navigation XAML Round-tripping Control Extensibility Microsoft Confidential

Demo Designer Support for WPF Developers

Cider Resources

Provide a solution that allows Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to coexist within the context of a single, hybrid application ● Spice up your existing Windows Forms application with WPF content ● Add Windows Forms Line of Business controls to your WPF application Developer can interact fully across technologies End user cannot detect technology transitions WPF / Windows Forms InterOp Code named Crossbow

Windows Forms Design Time InterOp Support Drag and drop WPF user controls directly onto your Forms Live preview of the WPF hosted content Edit content using the best designer for the job ● WindowsForms designer for Form layout ● WPF UserControl editor for WPF content

Demo Windows Forms Designer InterOp Support

Crossbow Resources

Addressing Top Customer Concerns Mitigating ClickOnce Adoption Blockers Addressing Top Customer reported Bugs “White Screen of Darn” Redesigned

ClickOnce Enhancements “ClickOnce would work great for us but …” ClickOnce now supports FireFox ● Out of the Box experience “Save and Launch” ● API provided to facilitate IE parity XCopy publish scenario enabled ● Application no longer tied to a publish location on signing ISVs can now maintain ‘Branding’ of Apps ● Application Manifests can now provide Auth Certificates Auth Certificates now renewable across Updates ClickOnce works across Authenticated Proxies

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Customer, Customer, Customer … Listened to your feedback Fixed top customer reported bugs Made targeted improvements throughout the Windows Forms Designer ● Fixed bugs that caused ‘White Screen of Darn’ to show up ● Designer Performance ● Smart Tag Stability ● Toolbox Population …

White Screen of Darn Similar to Build Error List Prevents controls from disappearing List was : ● Vague ● Cluttered ● Imposing ● Frustrating

White Screen of Darn Redesigned Provide Targeted Help Less Scary Remove Clutter Help unblock you as fast as possible

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