Notes from Build Conference Day 2 Keynote

Here are my raw, unedited notes from the Build conference day 2 keynote. The theme was Windows Server 8, Azure, and Visual Studio 2011.

Highlights

• A multiplayer game demonstration showed Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 communicating through Azure
• Productivity Power Tools reached over 1 million downloads and will be installed by default in VS2011
• Microsoft projected over 350 million installations of Windows shipping that year

Visual Studio 2011

• Find matching code clones functionality
• Integrated image editor supporting 3D model loading
• A DOM explorer, kind of like Firebug inside of VS

ASP.NET and MVC4

• New HTML5-based template with mobile optimization
• New async keyword used for controllers
• jQuery Mobile shipping by default
• Bundling and minification capabilities for CSS and JavaScript

.NET 4.5 and Infrastructure

• WebSocketHandler introduced in .NET 4.5
• TFS 2011 hosted as Team Foundation Service in Azure
• Windows Server 8 introduced Storage Spaces technology for virtual machine capabilities

Azure and Cloud

• Azure data platform expansion including SQL Azure, Table Storage, and Access Control Service
• Access Control Service to reduce development overhead for authentication

Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7.5 reached 30,000 apps