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An Insight to Microsoft Platform
Tahir Rauf | Software Architect

An Insight to Microsoft Platform
Topics covered in the presentation

• Development Tool Overview
• Visual Studio Demo
• Tips & Recommendations


An Insight Into Microsoft Platform

Development Tools Overview

•Microsoft .NET
•Microsoft SQL Server
•Windows Azure
•Windows Phone 7
•XNA and Kodu Framework
•Silverlight
•Microsoft Visual Studio



.NET Framework – General overview



Overview of General Features

• Interoperability
• Language Independence
• Base Class Library
• Portability (Mono, DotGNU, CrossNet)
• Simplified deployments
• Security



What is Silver light

• Application framework for Rich Internet Applications

• Subset of WPF

• Uses XML based representation of presentation using XAML

• XAML targets multiple platforms (desktop, web, mobile)

)


Silver light Programming Model



How Silver light Works



Gaming frameworks (XNA & Kodu)

• Cross platform Game development framework
• XBOX, Windows, Mobile, Zune
• C#, VB.NET as compared to traditional C++
• Kodu – codeless way of game development



Microsoft SQL Server



MS SQL Server high level feature set

• Database Engine (DBMS) (SQL server management studio)

• Analysis services (Multidimensional Data, Data Mining) (Business
intelligence development studio)

• Integration services (ETL)

• Replication

• Reporting Services (Business Intelligence)

• SQL Server Service Broker



What is Windows Azure



How Windows Azure works



Azure Features overview

• Focus on your application, not operational constraints.
• Administration

• Availability

• Scalability

• REST and managed APIs (storage services even out of cloud)

• Fault Tolerance (3 times replication)

• VM

• In built, caching support



Windows Phone 7

Runtime Tools

Phone Emulator
Sensors Media Data Location

Phone Xbox LIVE Notifications Samples Documentation

.NET Framework managed code sandbox Guides Community

Packaging and Verification Tools

Cloud Portal
Notifications App Deployment Registration Marketplace

Location Identity Feeds Validation MO and CC Billing

Social Maps Certification Business Intelligence

Publishing Update Management



Tips and Recommendations

Visual Studio Code Samples at MSDN (C#, C++, j#, VB, Smart Devices
etc) - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/se881ay9(v=vs.80).aspx
MSDN Library http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms348103
Microsoft Research Community (Publications, projects) -
http://research.microsoft.com/



Common Hooks

• hook_help()
• hook_perm()
• hook_init()
• hook_theme()
• hook_block()
• hook_menu()



Help Hooks – a Module File Entry

/**
* Implementation of hook_help
*/
function modulename_help($path, $arg) {
switch ($path) {
case 'admin/help#color':
$output = '<p>'. t('The color module allows a site administrator to
quickly and easily change the color scheme of certain
themes.’ ).'</p>';
return $output;
}
}


Specify the Available Permissions

• Tell Drupal who can use your module.
/**
* Implementation of hook_perm
*/
function modulename_perm() {
return array('access site-wide ', 'administer colors');
}



Hook_init ()

• This hook is run at the beginning of the page request.
1. Add CSS or JS that should be present on every page.
2. Set up global parameters which are needed later in the request



Cont..Hook_init ()

function modulename_init() {
$path = drupal_get_path('module', ‘modulename');
drupal_add_js($path . '/filename.js');
drupal_add_css($path . ‘/filename.css', 'module', 'all', FALSE);
}

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!hooks!core.php/function/hook_i
nit/6



Hook_Theme ()

function modulename_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path) {
}
• Write theme funtions



Declaring Block Content

/**
* Implementation of hook_block().
* @param string $op one of "list", "view", "save" and "configure"
* @param integer $delta code to identify the block
* @param array $edit only for "save" operation
*/
function modulename_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0, $edit = array()) {
switch ($op) {
case 'list':
$block = array();
$block[0]["info"] = t('assets');
return $block;
break;



Declaring Block Content Cont..

case 'view':
$block['subject'] = 'assets';
$block['content'] = get_block_content();
return $block;
break;
}
}

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!hooks!core.php/function/hook_
block/6



Hook Menu

• Define menu items and page callbacks.

• This hook enables modules to register paths in order to define how URL
requests are handled.

• This hook is rarely called (for example, when modules are enabled), and
its results are cached in the database.



Hook Menu Cont..

function modulename_menu() {
$items['abc/def'] = array(
'page callback' => 'mymodule_abc_view',
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
'access callback' => true,
);
return $items;
}

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!hooks!core.php/function/hook_
menu/6



Useful Links

• hook_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id)
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!hooks!core.ph
p/function/hook_form_alter/6

• hook_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $a4 = NULL)
p/function/hook_nodeapi/6

• hook_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $category = NULL)
p/function/hook_user/6



.Uninstall File

• Remove all tables that a module defines.
• http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!common.inc/function/drupal_
uninstall_schema/6



Useful Links

1. Creating modules - a tutorial: Drupal 6.x
2. Creating Our First Module (1.3M PDF)
3. Coding standards
4. http://www.drupal.org


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