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#6 Consider Views in Your GUI Application

Most developers don’t know much about the View and related managed objects. The reason for that is that they were mainly designed for VI/vSphere Client in the first place. But nothing stops you from using it to your advantages.

As you can imagine, you can use the View and its subtypes InventoryView, ListView, and ContainerView to monitor changes on the server side. It provides an efficient way to monitor for changes with only these visible in your GUI and nothing more. You can use ViewManager to create views according to your specific needs.  Read more... (888 words, estimated 3:33 mins reading time)

Besides the talks on VMware APIs, two self paced labs are there for you to try out the vSphere SDK and PowerShell at PEX. More details are quoted in later part.

As a bonus, you will get a chance to learn VI Java API in the SDK lab. Thanks to VMware TAM Alton Yu for making this happen! I will be there when I am not presenting my talk “Architecting Your Applications for VMware Cloud”, or helping on the BOF, genius bar, etc.  Read more... (325 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)