Day one at MIX09 is almost in the bag- "just" the open bar TAO Party to go- and in its wake is a flurry of new information (some of which wasn't even presented at MIX). So while you could spend the next several hours trying to comb the interwebs to get a complete picture, I, your humble .NET commentator, will try to bring you the highlights and save you some time. MIX09 Day 1 Highlights & Announcements
- Expression Web 3 (no release links)
- New "SuperPreview" tool - compare a page rendering in multiple browsers (including IE6,7,8 and browsers that run on other OSs via "cloud services")
- Stand-alone SuperPreview tool for IE testing only
- Expression Blend 3
- Preview available today (required for SL3 work)
- New SketchFlow tools (for rapid prototyping)
- Stand-alone SketchFlow Viewer (for easy prototype sharing and annotation feedback)
- Native support for importing (and editing) Photoshop/Illustrator illustrations
- XAML, C#, VB IntelliSense
- Support for Behaviors and live-data at design-time
- Silverlight 3
- Beta 1 available today
- TONS of news - too much for a quick recap, but some highlights:
- RIA Services, Fit Client ("out of browser") support, Offline APIs, GPU acceleration, H.264 support, multi-touch support, deep linking framework, ClearType support (not in beta- but coming), and much more
- Plugin size smaller than SL2 (despite all new stuff)
- Azure
- CTP updated
- Full Trust .NET support, support for PHP/FastCGI, Support for relational data storage (via SQL Data Services), support for Geo-Location services
- Commercial release on track for later this year
- ASP.NET MVC
- ASP.NET AJAX 4 Preview 4
- New preview of ASP.NET AJAX futures available today
- Details on Betrand's blog
- More control over ViewState, distributed cache support coming (Velocity)
- Misc Microsoft Announcements
- Commerce Server 2009 release
- Web Platform Installer now available
- Windows Web App Gallery now live (app store for Windows Server)
- New plug-ins and services for IIS Media Streaming
There you go! Day one in re-cap. Clearly there are a ton more details not listed here, but hopefully this is enough to get you started. If I missed something major, let me know and I’ll update the post with more details. Stay tuned for Day Two coverage.
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