Day 2 at MIX was a blast.. continually busy all day running from session to session.
Day 1 began at 9:30 ... so I was here at 7, did some email, grabbed breakfast and was on-time for the keynote.
Day 2 I'm doing email watching my time, and about 8:15 was heading over for breakfast and decided to see where my first breakout was ... holy crap... they start at 8:30!
So... grab another coke, call it breakfast and hit part one of the 2 parter "Building Silverlight Applications using .NET" by Jamie Cool & Nick Kramer... great job.. That presentation is being repeated as I stand here and type... and it was in a double-room yesterday! If you're at all interested in the technology, grab the video and code for this one when it comes up.
I'm not sure what the other folks that are here at MIX think about it all, but Silverlight is the word!
My next session was "Deep Dive on Silverlight Media Integration" with Mike Harsh ... finally met Mike... Hi Mike :) ... great presentation... put up a video transparently and not, then rotated it, moved it in two pieces, and turned it into a puzzle... cool stuff, can't wait to get home and install Expression to play with all those toys.
Only negative
well, ok maybe it's for the best, but I'm having trouble installing the Beta 1 on my laptop. If I was able to install it, I probably wouldn't have gotten much sleep the last two nights... and I have 5 hours of driving to get back to sanity today :) ... Joe Stegman of the Silverlight team is working with me trying to figure out what's up... it's looking to me like just possibly the February CTP (or maybe all the way back to the December one) didn't uninstall completely, and the Beta won't go on.
To me it's just an annoyance, because this isn't my development box, but Scott Cate can't get it installed on his development laptop... so it's not an isolated case.
So the path to reality is going to be what... keep the February CTP stuff on the site and mirror it with Beta 1? ... don't know... I really don't want to throw all that work away. So, I'm thinking maybe go with the Alpha, because it's heading that way anyway, and having LINQ support resolves all those pesky "talk to data" issues.
Of course that still means a mirrored path, but by the time I get done re-doing all those pages, I should be familiar with the process :)
Guess it's time to try to go grab a seat in the last Silverlight presentation before lunch and MIXChat
See you next time from the house!
posted @ Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:14 PM