Speakers: Mike Morton, Sean Laberee
This session was an introduction to the new App model for SharePoint and Office. The room accommodated about 3500 people and it was packed.
- loud cheers from the large crowd for new app dev model experience (e.g., just save and refresh instead of redeploying)
- the new app model uses 'modern' web dev techniques such as JQuery and knockout.js
- funny moment: during a demo, a presenter forget to close a quote and many people yelled out from the audience
- creating web parts is even easier than 2010 visual web parts. (inc. client web parts for office 365)
- cool that you can 'appetize' existing web apps
- apps have events
- use OAuth for security
- apps can be MVC not just web forms
- really cool that you can locally debug using a local DB and then deploy to Azure an it will automatically provision SQL Azure DB for you. This uses dacpac under the hood
- debug uses iisexpress and no app registration is required
- apps for Office can be packaged somehow to be apps for SharePoint—details pending
