MIX09

As I already assumed yesterday, the mix09 seems to bring up a very interesting week.
The keynote was packed with announcements, I will try to sum up the most important ones, also as a note for myself to keep track of what I have to try out or look forward to:

Expression Web 3.0

• contains "SuperPreview", a smooth way to check your web pages for browser compatibility, works for firefox, ie 6,7,8, safari, all inside expression web, seems to be a clever solution to adapt web pages to the different browsers.
• Superpreview beta as standalone for IE6,7,8 is available today if I got that right

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 AVAILABLE TODAY

Microsoft Web Platform Installer (available now!)

• with all the web tools and visual studio addons and stuff like that, Microsoft has finally put together a great tool to keep track what you have installed on your pc and what can install additionally or where updates are available without having to bother or check where you get all this stuff from. Very useful addition! Very nice!
  

Windows Web App Gallery (available now!)

• From the Platform installer or from microsoft.com/web/gallery there's also a lot of web applications available for browsing and install, applications, frameworks, all that stuff like dotnetnuk, wordpress, ...
  
• You can also add your own applications here
• asp.net and php applications

Azure

• inclusion of fastcgi/php
• .net full trust applications now possible
• raw ado.net support
• on track for commercial release later this year

Virtual Earth Silverlight SDK available today!!!

Worldwide Telescope Silverlight available today!!!

Silverlight3

• GPU support for scaling and transformation (for windows and mac!!!)
  
• new codec support
• raw bitstream audio/video api (for developing own codecs)
• improved logging support
• perspectice 3d
• bitmap and pixel apis
• pixelshader effects
• page-framework (deep search, navigation (browser back, etc))
• cleartype support
• multitouch support
• out of the browser support
• installer 40k smaller than silverlight2
• beta available for download today !!!

Expression Blend 3

• beta available today!!!
  
• Support for direct import from Photoshop or Illustrator
• Sketchflow (amazing workflow tool for the application design process)
• Generate Word Documentation from Sketchflow
• Eclipse Support for Silverlight for the Mac

IIS Media services (available today!!!)

And of course much more detail coming in the sessions during the next few days, ASP.NET 4, Visual Studio 2010, etc etc

Pretty much amazing.

Go check out http://live.visitmix.com/ for mor information.

I guess I will start downloading the Microsoft Web Platform Installer right away...


Have fun!