The new SharePoint Cloud Application model will be introduced to Office 365

Last Monday, I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote address at this year's SharePoint conference. Part of my presentation involves a new SharePoint cloud Application model, which is part of what we've introduced into the upcoming SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 releases. This new SharePoint application model is an addition to a fully trusted solution written by developers, built around three core components:

simplifies the development model, keeping the SharePoint On-premises version consistent with the SharePoint Online provided by Office 365. Make the execution of the model loosely grouped--enabling developers to build/write applications/code that can run outside of SharePoint Core Services. This makes it easier to deploy SharePoint applications with Windows Azure, avoiding the fear of destroying SharePoint and its internal applications when upgrading. This new loosely assembled model also allows developers to write SharePoint applications that take full functionality of the. NET framework-including ASP.net web Forms 4.5, asp.net MVC 4, asp.net Web APIs, EF 5, Asynchronous and more. By using standard Web protocols to perform this loosely combined model-such as OAuth, JSON, and Rest API developers can reuse skills and tools and easily integrate SharePoint with Web and mobile application architectures.

My presentation + Demo video is now available online:

In the speech, I demonstrated the idea of building an application from scratch--it showed how easy it was to build a solution with a new SharePoint application, and highlighted a Web + workflow+ mobile solution that integrates with SharePoint, The code is hosted on Windows Azure (using Visual Studio 2012 and ASP.net 4.5--including MVC and Web APIs).

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New SharePoint Cloud Application model is an exciting thing that will make it easier to build SharePoint applications using the full functionality of Windows Azure and the. NET Framework. It is really appropriate to use Windows Azure to easily expand SaaS based solutions like Office 365, which will provide developers with unlimited opportunities for excellence.