Make your apps a native part of Office with Office Add-ins

Speaker: Andrew Salamatov Office Platform The Office add-ins platform is part of the Office developer ecosystem. It’s important to understand the full power of this ecosystem. The ecosystem consists of 3 pillars Add-ins and web parts: enabling devs to extend the Office UI, e.g. buttons Web and device apps: application that you can build on … Continue reading Make your apps a native part of Office with Office Add-ins →

Explore the new, cross-platform .NET Core 1.0

Speaker: Richard Lander There are solutions for cloud, desktop and mobile. There are tools to developer for these platforms. There are commonalities packed into a library. .NET Core It is cross platform (Windows, Linux and macOS), fast (8x faster than Node), lightweight and open-source (50% of .NET community contributions). TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks - techempower.com/benchmarks Asp.NET … Continue reading Explore the new, cross-platform .NET Core 1.0 →

Azure SQL Database – The Intelligent Cloud Database for App Developers

Speaker: Alain Lissoir When you move to the cloud, you give away some control. In exchange for that control, you are expecting it to be fast, cheap, reliable, secure. Microsoft is up to the challenge to meet these requirements. Running things in the cloud, you count on Microsoft to do the work. Microsoft is taking … Continue reading Azure SQL Database – The Intelligent Cloud Database for App Developers →

An overview of the Microsoft Application Platform for developers

Speaker: Abel Wang Devs are the most important people anywhere. We rule the world. What we do changes the world. Writing code is more important than ever. We used to write functional apps but today we are expecting rich web apps and mobile apps with amazing experiences. We had isolated apps but today we don’t … Continue reading An overview of the Microsoft Application Platform for developers →

Setting up the SIMATIC IOT2040

Siemens recently launched the the intelligent gateway for industrial IoT solutions onto the market. Named SIMATIC IOT2000, it is designed as a gateway between cloud, in-company IT and production. The cloud could be the Siemens Cloud for Industry, MindSphere, or any other preferred cloud. I have many ideas that I want to try out with my SIMATIC2040. This … Continue reading Setting up the SIMATIC IOT2040 →