Transcript Mix Summary - Schwammy Says

MVC New release
IE8 Beta 1
Deep Zoom (sea dragon)
Silver light 2.0 Beta 1
Expression Blend 2.5 Preview
Instant Messaging API
Enhancements to Virtual Earth
Surface
ADO.NET/SQL/Live data services
The Video Game “Rock Band” may be cool
to play, but not so much to actually watch
geeks playing it.
Elvis is learning Silverlight
Steve Ballmer Really, Really Loves Web
Developers
CSS 2.1 compliant (plays nice)
CSS Certification (702 test cases)
Performance – much faster Javascript
AJAX enhancements including navigation
HTML 5 Support
Cool off line detection and local save feature
Developer tools built in
Web Slices
Activities
Access features of web services without
leaving the page by right clicking
Map
Ships with…
Extendable
Replaces the open new page + copy +
paste pattern
Uses XML to describe content of preview
pane
Subscribe to a specific part of a page
Get updates to the browser itself
Popup window right off the tooolbar
Can organize into folders
Bolds when an update happens
Can update every 15 minutes
Easy XML description to make content
subscribable to anyone
Sea Dragon technology used for Deep
Zoom
Can handle collections of extremely high
resolution photos
Seamless zooming
Will be used on many products moving
forward
Composer Beta available for download
Pros
Uses eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
Based on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
technology
Allows Rich Media experience (720P HD Video)
Plug in Installs fast and easily
Cons
No out of the box input controls
Javascript Only
Need to install the plug-in
Pros
All the features in 1.0 (WPF, XAML, and Rich Media)
Rich User Control for forms
Developer support for debugging
Client side development in C#, Vb.net, Ruby, Python,
and yes, Javascript too.
Local Storage
IT WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD
Cons
New technology; so new exploits may be possible.
Need to install the plug-in.
Not entire CLR or WPF supported.
You may not ever want to do web development again.
Web Browser Cookie
Local Storage
Provides 10MB of app specific local storage
Can be expanded per app by prompting the
user
Exposed through .NET Isolated Storage
APIs
Client Platforms
Mac
PC (In multiple browser flavors)
Linux (moon light)
Mobile PC (new)
Server Platforms
IIS
Apache
lighttpd
Sun Java System Web Server
.html
.aspx
Sharepoint
Virtual Earth
Deep Zoom
http://silverlight.net/default.aspx
Blogs:
http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/
http://mattberseth.com/blog/
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/default.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/jstegman/
http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/default.aspx
API is written in JavaScript
Can write code in C# and use Script# to
push out JavaScript code
(http://www.nikhilk.net/ScriptSharpIntro.aspx)
Can Enable any Web Site to use Instant
Messaging
http://blogs.msdn.com/messenger/
IntelliSense library for Virtual Earth
(http://www.codeplex.com/VEJS)
New Toolkit coming out in April
Will be integrating Deep Zoom in future
releases
Can be used with Silverlight
Retail Location Kiosks may eventually
become technology for home.
Start rolling out in spring in partner locations
Sheraton, Harrah’s, T-Mobile
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
http://visitmix.com/
http://sessions.visitmix.com/
Expression Studio Beta (download)
IE 8 Beta (download)
IE 8 Virtual Machines (download)
Expression Blend 2.5 Preview (download)
Deep Zoom Composer (download)
Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008
(download)
ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (download)
ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview (December
2007) (download)
http://visitmix.com/blogs/Joshua/Get-theSoftware-Tools-Featured-at-MIX08