Building Windows 8 Apps for the Enterprise

1. DEV358 Building Windows 8 Apps for the Enterprise Robert Green rogreen@microsoft.com / @rogreen_ms Technical Evangelist Microsoft Corporation

2. Windows 8 • Windows reimagined • All the apps you want • Cloud-connected • Get more at the Windows Store • Reimagined browsing with IE10 • At home and at work • Great experience across hardware • Built on a solid foundation

3. Types of Metro Style Apps Consumer B2C LOB ISV Custom LOB Examples Headtrax Expense Approval PLM Company News Windows Store Windows Store Windows Store or Side-loaded Side-loaded Distribution Built by Tech Company Enterprise Tech Company Enterprise Consumer Business Used by

4. Benefits of LOB Metro Style Apps • Mobility • Suited for modern form factors and longer battery life • Increase Productivity • Touch first, fast and fluid experience (live tiles, notifications, contracts) • Performance • Quick startup and designed to be asynchronous • Security • Reduced system vulnerability with isolated app containers • Use What You Know • Same tools, languages and back-end infrastructure you already have • Deployment • Easy deployment through the Store or by side-loading

5. Desktop and Web Apps • Desktop Apps • Pixel accuracy apps like the CAD/CAM • Need chrome like Visual Studio • Background tasks like generating Excel reports • Web Apps • Don’t need platform richness • Accessible across various platforms • Need zero foot print

6. Designing and Building an Expense Report App

7. What Does The App Do? • Employees can create new expense reports and submit them for approval • Managers can approve or reject expense reports

8. Architecture • Data is in a back end system, SQL Server for our demo • Data is exposed by a WCF service • Windows 8 client used to manage expense reports

9. demo Create the projectCreate the ViewModels

10. Main Page • Employees should see unreconciled charges and how old they are • Employees should see saved expense reports • Employees should see reports they have submitted that are waiting for approval • Managers should see reports waiting for their approval

11. demo Create the main page

12. Create An Expense Report • Employees can launch expense report page from Main page by tapping charges or by tapping a button in the app bar. • Expense report page should show outstanding charges. Employee can add one or more at a time to expense report. • Employee can create a new charge and add it to expense report. • Employee can remove charges from expense report. • Employee can save and submit expense report.

13. demo Create an expense report

14. Edit A Saved Expense Report • Employees can open a saved expense report by tapping it from the Main page. • Employee can add additional charges and then save and submit expense report.

15. demo Edit a saved expense report

16. View, Approve/Reject Submitted Expense Reports • Employees can view their submitted expense reports by tapping them from the Main page. • Employees cannot modify submitted expense reports. • Managers can view expense reports submitted by their direct reports. They can approve or reject them.

17. demo View, approve/reject submitted expense reports

18. Take Advantage Of Windows 8 Features • Live tiles • App’s tile should show users information, eg #/$ of outanding charges, amount owed from pending reports, #/$ of reports waiting for approval. • Secondary tiles • Users should be able to pin an expense report to the Start screen. • When they tap that secondary tile, the app starts and shows that report.

19. demo Live tiles and secondary tiles

20. Take Advantage Of Windows 8 Features • Search • Users should be able to search for charges or expense items containing certain text. • Users should be able to search for charges or expense items in particular categories. • Share • Employee should be able to mail their manager a reminder about a pending report. • Managers should be able to mail an employee with questions about a pending report.

21. demo Search and share

22. Working With Data • Synchronization • Storage • Local store with database support Local file systems and network shares Your backend systems Windows Azure 3rd party services IndexDb, JetDb, SQLite • Enterprise Authentication and Private Network • SkyDrive Database sync Roaming storage

23. Authentication and SecurityMeeting enterprise standards • Security • Authentication • Integrated Windows authentication • App Certificate – My and Root stores • Multi-factor authentication • Federated ADFS Authentication • Single Sign On with Live, Facebook, etc.. • Enterprise Authentication and Private Network • Windows.Security.Cryptography.Certificates • Credential Picker andShared User Certificates WebAuthenticationBroker.AuthenticateAsync WebAuthenticationBroker.AuthenticateAsync • Isolated App Containers • Crypto APIs • Support for SSL/TLS • App Signing • Robust Capabilities framework

24. Where Do Metro Style LOB Apps Come From? • Windows Store • Certified by Windows • Installed and updated by end users • ISV built business apps • IT Direct Distribution • Certified by the corporation • Installed and updated via IT supplied processes • Built in house or purchased directly from ISVs

25. Preparing Machines for IT Direct Distribution • Group policy set for Install All Trusted Apps • Allows install of sideloaded apps • App must be signed by a certificate that chains to Trusted Publisher • App signing certificates are trusted • Installation and update by IT based process • Can only be run on enterprise side loading enabled devices • Machine must be enabled for sideloading to launch apps • Windows 8 Enterprise or Server Edition AND domain joined • Windows 8 Professional, Windows RT, non-domain joined Enterprise activate a secondary product key

26. Deployment • PowerShell • Detect (Get-AppxPackage –name Contoso.SampleLOBApp).version • Install/Update Add-AppxPackage \\fileserver\Contoso\SampleLOBApp.appx • Remove Get-AppxPackage -name Contoso.SampleLOBApp | Remove-AppxPackage • System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 • Enable side-loading for machines • Deploy and inventory apps

27. demo Deploying a Metro Style LOB App

28. Related Content • DEV369: Creating LOB Metro style Apps in XAML Using Microsoft Expression Blend and Visual Studio WCL203: Windows 8: Understanding the Windows Store and Metro style App Deployment in the Enterprise Find Me Later At Visual Studio Toolbox on Channel 9

29. Resources Learning TechNet • Connect. Share. Discuss. • Microsoft Certification & Training Resources http://europe.msteched.com www.microsoft.com/learning • Resources for IT Professionals • Resources for Developers • http://microsoft.com/technet http://microsoft.com/msdn

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