Today's MIX 09 Keynote in Las Vegas was hosted by Scott Guthrie. As much as I had hoped to attend, my Vegas trip didn't materialize. However, I watched the live stream and, to be honest, I was blown away by the sheer number of announcements. If you followed my tweets, you probably have a good idea of all the technical goodness. Here's a consolidated summary, with links to the various downloads.
Expression Web 3- SuperPreview feature – view rendering across all browser types and versions. Split-screen designer, fullscreen-mode, allows comparison of “baseline” browser vew and alternative browser view side-by-side. Also “overlay” mode – stacks two browser views, to help identify differences.
- Supports both local browsers and cloud service, to allow for rendering on browsers not installed locally (e.g. Safari for Mac)
- Easy to compare multiple versions of IE without having each browser version installed
- Beta available right now: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/blendpreview.aspx
- Web forms: more control over viewstate, html markup, improvements in data binding and url routing
- Improvements to Ajax stack and jQuery support
- Client–side templates and databinding, along with additional REST support
- Velocity caching engine
- Improved JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery scripting support, including intelliSense
- SharePoint editing/debugging within Visual Studio IDE
- Publishing and deployment improvements, including database deployment
- Still a CTP - get the latest here
IIS7
- Ten new extensions available, including secure FTP, WebDAV, app request routing
- Grab the new extensions here.
Microsoft Web Platform Installer
- Provides single source for all components required for Web platform installation.
- Version 2 (beta) already includes support for just-released ASP.NET MVC 1.0.
- Grab the latest v2 beta here.
- Free apps to download and use
- Anyone can add an app to the gallery
- Visit the gallery here.
Commerce Server 2009
- Available now.
- View detailed information here.
Azure Services Platform
- FastCGI support (allows 3rd-party programming languages like php)
- .NET full trust
- Raw ADO.NET support
- View details here.
Microsoft BizSpark
- New program designed to help startup companies get up and running quickly
- Includes software and licensing support for 3-year period
- Includes marketing, business development opportunities, hosting partners
- Free to qualifying startups
- Read details here.
- Demo performed by startup StackOverflow.com, a BizSpark member
Silverlight V3
- GPU acceleration support (on Windows and Mac)
- New CODEC support (h.264, aac, MPEG-4)
- Raw bitstream API
- Improved logging for media analytics
- Perspective 3D
- Bitmap / pixel API
- Deep linking, navigation page framework (for interfacing with browser navigation)
- ClearType support
- Multi-touch support
- Library caching (download and cache to local system)
- Data binding improvements
- Multi-tier data (support for data context updates in Silverlight pushing updates to the server)
- Binary XML
- Out-of-browser experience - Silverlight app runs like a desktop app, yet still within a sandbox (and still dependent only on the Silverlight runtime bits). Supported on both Windows and Mac
- Offline awareness (with network status change events)
- V3 download is apparently 40K less than V2 download!
- Get the latest beta here. Warning: once you install the Beta tools, you now have a Silverlight 3-only development environment, so maybe go with a VPC...
IIS Media Services
- New product, available today.
- Includes live streaming (in beta, available today)
- Edge-caching. Akamai has already announced services to support this
- For more info and installation details, go here.
Expression Blend 3
- Includes new SketchFlow tool offering sketching/prototyping, complete with transitions, collaboration tool (free SketchFlow player), all built into Blend.
- Version control support
- Xaml IntelliSense
- Photoshop PSD import, including preservation of layers (as well as the ability to selectively toggle layers)
- Grab the preview here.
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