Grey Matter Issue 71 | Spring 2017 Building on 34 years of software know how Visual Studio 2017 All you need to deliver any app on any platform Cloud Security Keeping your data secure and legal WIN! See page 8 Lifecycle Management for details How Visual Studio 2017 can help with ALM Contents Editorial Editor: .....................................................................Matt Nicholson Technical editors: .. Sean Wilson, Paul Edwards Editorial advisor: ............................................Julia Hopkins News editor: ...................................................... Paul Stephens Publisher: ..................................................................Andrew King Contributors: ........Tim Anderson, Simon Bisson, Mary Branscombe, Kay Ewbank, Jon Visual Studio 2017 Security in the cloud Honeyball, Graham Keitch, Paul Stephens 10 22 Design and layout: ..................................... Jason Stanley The latest version of Microsoft’s flagship How to stay secure and legal when Illustration: ............................................................Sholto Walker development suite. you’re operating in the cloud. Web Design: ........................................................Jason Stanley Advertising & Circulation Software News Marketing: ............................................................Leanne Bevan Welcome 4 GrapeCity, Intel, Microsoft, Redgate, Security and privacy are two sides of a coin that has long bugged Trimble and more. 01364 654100 our society. On the one hand most of us consider that we have a [email protected] right to a private life, and indeed Article 12 of the Universal News in brief HardCopy is edited for Grey Matter three Declaration of Human Rights explicitly states that “No-one shall be 6 and the latest competition winner. times a year by Matt Publishing. It is printed subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or by Pepper Communications in Plymouth. correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation.” Copyright © 2017 Grey Matter Ltd. All rights The right is implicit in the American Constitution, while Article 8 of Competition reserved. No part of this publication may be the European Convention on Human Rights is more pragmatic in 8 Win an Amazon Echo! reproduced in any form without prior consent of the copyright holder. that, though explicitly stated, the right is moderated by the needs All trademarks acknowledged. of a “democratic society” with regards to national security and HardCopy is a trademark and Grey Matter a crime prevention. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the situation in the UK is Managing the application lifestyle registered trademark owned by Grey Matter 17 less clear, particularly since the fiasco that is the Investigatory Simon Bisson finds out whether Visual Limited. While all reasonable attempts are Studio 2017 can help with ALM. made to ensure accuracy, Grey Matter and Powers Act 2016 (aka the ‘Snooper’s Charter’). Matt Publishing disclaim any liability In practice there has always been some give-and-take. We whatsoever for any use of information have accepted since the 1920s that our security services can Intel AI Day herein. Prices exclude VAT unless specified. 26 intercept private telephone conversations once they have Kay Ewbank investigates Intel’s recent excursions into Artificial Intelligence. Cover Images: Jason Stanley obtained a warrant, while the police have been able to search a totallypic/Shutterstock ProStockStudio/Shutterstock private property on production of a warrant for several centuries now. However, modern technology has upset the apple cart. These Inside Data 29 Graham Keitch looks at the importance days most of us happily sign away our privacy with a single click of Data Lifecycle Management. Advertisers Index and a resigned acceptance of the implications. Some take the attitude that privacy is only of concern if you 2 Azure Straight talking have something to hide, or go along with Scott McNealy of Sun 7 Office 365 30 Are you still using Visual Basic? Tim 9 Barracuda Microsystems when he said: “You have zero privacy anyway - get Anderson suggests it’s time you switch. 12 Embarcadero over it.” However even they would be reluctant to hand out their credit card details, or their passwords, to all and sundry. 15 Intel Parallel Studio XE And Another Thing 16 Grey Matter Services The problem for security services is that accessing the 32 Jon Honeyball sets his sights on UI 18 Condusiv information they are convinced they need is becoming design and release schedules. 21 Flexera increasingly difficult, which has resulted in ever more persistent calls to legislate for our data to be stored in an accessible form. The 25 Nfon Short Cuts 28 Intel Media Server Studio problem for us - even for those of us who have nothing to hide - is 34 Views from the edge. 31 Paessler that such moves can only make our data more vulnerable, and our 33 GFI privacy harder to protect. 35 Visual Studio Such considerations are particularly relevant to data that is 36 Intel Event stored in the cloud. If your provider is an American company and your data is stored in a server-farm located in the UK but might be backed up or routed through another in Singapore or Sydney, then Register Now! Grey Matter Limited access could be subject to the laws of four different countries. And HardCopy magazine is published three times a year. Prigg Meadow, if the ‘Snooper’s Charter’ continues unchanged, then the UK could Don’t miss out by registering or updating your Ashburton, become the weakest link. details at www.greymatter.com/hc/subscribe Devon, TQ13 7DF, UK Ultimately the cloud is an international resource, and such [email protected] matters can only be resolved through international discussion and agreement. Only once that happens can we start thinking about Read HardCopy online taking back control of our online privacy and identity. To view read articles on the web go to HardCopy Matt Nicholson, Editor, HardCopy online at www.greymatter.com/hc/hardcopy Grey Matter • 01364 654100 • HardCopy 3 News | Read more online at www.greymatter.com/hc/news Software News Microsoft takes up the Slack with Teams chat for Office 365 Microsoft • www.greymatter.com/microsoft/ Microsoft is challenging business chat Team’s chat connectivity can’t currently extend Directory to answer questions such as “Who giant Slack with the launch of Teams, a beyond the host organisation. knows about subject x?” A set of more than 70 chat-based collaboration tool for its Office 365 Teams is Office 365 Tier C security connectors allow feeds from outside services online application suite. As well as Slack-like compliant, with data encrypted in transit and at while Microsoft claims 150 partners for its chat channels, the product features deep rest. The system integrates with Microsoft’s Bot third-party integration API, including SAP, Asana integration with Office 365 applications Framework, launching with a Slackbot-like and Zendesk. Teams can be enabled from the including Skype for Business, and with ‘T-bot’ helper, plus a forthcoming Whobot, Office 365 admin center, and runs on Windows, SharePoint and Active Directory services. It’s which uses Microsoft’s AI framework and Active Mac, Android, iOS and web platforms. supplied as a free add-on for Office 365 Business and Enterprise plans, but won’t be available to Home and Personal users. Teams presents a Slack-like interface with user-defined ‘Teams’ acting as hubs for multiple Channels (chat rooms) supporting persistent and threaded conversations complete with animated GIFs and emojis. However its tabbed interface also allows users to open other Office 365 apps (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI and the revamped ‘Facebook for Enterprise’ Delve) within chat sessions, with collaborative document editing automatically secured via OneDrive cloud and local SharePoint storage. Skype for Business provides embedded video and voice calls, although Microsoft’s Teams offers threaded chat plus deep integration with Office 365. GrapeCity matches VS launch with ComponentOne release GrapeCity • www.greymatter.com/GrapeCity-Inc/ Pittsburgh-based component vendor simultaneously with VS 2017. The bundle binding to any .NET data source. There’s also a GrapeCity has lived up to its status as a encompasses ComponentOne Studio (Windows new multi-month CalendarView control, and a Visual Studio 2017 Sim-Ship Partner by components) plus Wijmo (JavaScript) and Xuni new MVC OLAP control complete with C# Pivot shipping its updated, VS2017-compatible (mobile) controls, with GrapeCity claiming that Engine. ComponentOne Ultimate 2017 v1 suite it delivers “the fastest and most versatile” The Wijmo toolset gains a new TreeView components for data management, data with checkboxes and drag-and-drop support, visualisation, scheduling, input, editing, plus a server-side OLAP control, a PDF Viewer navigation and reporting. and a new (and apparently unique) The popular InputPanel component, which MultiAutoComplete control that blends combines multiple input fields into a single multiple selection with auto completion. control, is now available in an XAML version, GrapeCity is now focusing its Xuni mobile simplifying forms creation across Windows 10 controls on Microsoft’s recently-acquired devices. Two new Excel chart types (box-and- Xamarin cross-platform toolset, and Ultimate whisker plot and ErrorBar) are added to 2017 v1 ships with a beta of ComponentOne FlexChart for Windows. FinancialChart for Xamarin Enterprise, featuring UWP support,