BUILD 2014 day 2 Keynote recap
Notable announcements of day 2
- 44 new announcements for Azure… enough said!!
- Check out Scott Guthrie’s blog for a series of detailed blog posts on Azure: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/
- General availability of Visual Studio Online: www.visualstudio.com
Microsoft Azure (some of the new features…)
- Awesome new Azure portal (preview today) with customizable new dashboard, Online service and Application Insights integration, …
- Staging server with single click swap for production deployment
- Create/manage Azure Virtual machines directly in Visual Studio, including support for remote debugging (allow you to attach the local debugger to processes running on the VM)
- Azure Web Sites
- SSL certificates free for all web sites!
- Support for Java
- Autoscale
- Traffic Manager
- Backup
- SQL Databases
- Self-service restore with daily automatic backups (up to 31 days)
- Max size is now 500 GB (up from 150 GB)
- Active geo replication
- Mobile Services
- Notification Hub with push notifications to any mobile device including Kindle now
- Office 365 integration with Active Directory support
- Offline data synchronization
- Remote debugging
Open Source
- Roslyn, the .NET compiler platform, is now an open source project on CodePlex! (good for Xamarin!)
- New broader initiative called .NET Foundation to showcase the multiple .NET components available as open source (24 .NET open source projects so far)
Note: I had never before seen so many iOS, Android and Java logos in a MS conference… and it’s a good sign! MS is now a cloud + services company. Even John Gruber appeared in a promo video during the keynote.
Watch the entire keynote online:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/KEY02
Read the official press release:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/events/build/