.NET 3.5 SP1 improvements
- streamlined setup
- startup performance
- graphics improvements
- DirectX/Direct3D interop in WPF
- more controls
Code demo for lighting up Windows 7 functionality using WPF
- this week, a new WPF ribbon control will ship; ties into standard WPF command infrastructure
- WPF has journaling and navigation built in
- WPF also has styling/skinning built in
- can declaratively add jump lists in WPF
- touch events added to base events
- cool new DX effects (ripple, etc)
Release of new WPF toolkit announced
- DataGrid
- DatePicker
- Calendar
- Ribbon
- VisualStateManager
.NET 4.0/VS2010 will include:
- the DLR
- ability to load .NET 4.0 and .NET 2.0 simultaneously in the same process, so rolling components forwards isn’t required
- extensibility framework (MEF)
- VS2010 built on top of WPF; much better TDD framework
- very cool, simple extensibility for visualization of text, etc
- Silverlight support, WYSIWYG designer
TESCO tool has a *very* cool solution.. including webcam UPC barcode recognition for grocery items.
Web development improvements: IE8 (improved standards support, web slices, visual search); ASP.NET (Dynamic Data, MVC, REST support, jQuery, web forms improvements, distributed caching “Velocity”)
jQuery intellisense file available today
Dave Treadwell (VP Live Services)
- access a user’s social graph
- easy integration and interoperation
- identity federation, customizable, OpenId integration
- identity, directory, communication and presence, search and geospatial
Live Mesh: goal is to connect the various platforms and computing assets that people use; connect users, devices, data and applications
Live Framework: the set of interfaces to Live Services; includes the Live Operating Environment and the Programming Model (APIs)
Very cool demo of Mesh!! And then Anthony Rose (the BBC Head of Online Media) gets on stage to show their iPlayer and the meshification of the application. Extremely cool stuff, with a great deal of thought put into it.
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