WynApse

Check out John Papa’s blog for much more detail and camera work… I’m just doing highlights.

Web…

Each of the tools can be used independently or integrate with each other or open source tools

Expression Web 3:

Standards based web authoring, Multi-laguage, Secure FTP, CSS Diagnostics, SuperPreview

Erik Saltwell demoing Expression Web 3

SuperPreview – split screen or full, and can pick the browser to view it in, also can side-by-side the various browsers, or layering them one over the other to see problems.

SuperPreview can talk to the cloud service to see a view in a browser you don’t have installed locally.

A standalone version of SuperPreview is NOW available FREE that will allow you to compare IE6, 7, and 8

MVC 1.0…

Full Control over HTML markup, SEO friendly with URL routing, Test driven Dev, easily extensible

This is shipping NOW!

ASP.NET4 improvements:

Web Forms, MVC AJAX Discributed Cashing

VS2010 for web dev:

Code focused improvements, JS/AJAX/jQuery tooling, SharePoint, Publishing and deployment

Can create separate web.config files and automated publishing support

Web Server Extensions

More than 8 extension updates.

All for free and integrated into the admin tool

Microsoft Web Platform Installer

Single download that will give you a unified way to get all the versions for a dev box or a deployment server … available today free

Web App Gallery

Like an app store, but it’s all free. search, read about it, install using the Web Platform Installer

Commerce Server 2009

Available now

Azure Services Platform

Fast CGI and .NET full trust now available, raw ADO support – rleational database, and more web standards

Still in Preview, on track for commercial release this year

BizSpark

To help startups get started quickly with licenses – sounds like a 3-year plan. Free to qualified startups.

StackOverflow guys onstage to highlight the dev-love of BizSpark

Silverlight

350M installations

300K designers and developers, 200 plu partners

over 200 sites built using Silverlight

Virual Earth API will be integrated

10K apps globally using Silverlight

Netflix – Kevin McEntee

“Cross-platform story is real”

“Installers Are Evil” – old installer is ‘right version of IE’ etc. 12% of the users bailed on the install because of problems. 8% would fail or quit during the install.

With Silverlight “Netflix Out Of the Installer Business”

They update their Adaptive Streaming every 2 weeks to improve the user experience.

Silverlight 3 Media:

GPU hw acceleration, H.264, AAC, MPEG-4, Raw  bitstream Audio/Vido API, Improved logging for media analytics

IIS Media Services

On-Demand smooth streaming, live smooth streaming edge caching web playlists bit-rate throttling, advanced logging

NBC announced the MS partnership for 2010 Vancouver Olympics

All in Adaptive Streaming HD

RIA

GPU acceleration and hardware compositing, Perspective 3D Bitmap & pixel API, Pixel shader effects, Deep Zoom improvements

Gratuitous Graphics Demo

Perspective, jitter, magnify, emboss pretty much anything… images, video, controls.

Application Dev

Deep linking, navigation and SEO, Improved text quality, Multi-touch, 100+ controls, library cachind support

Workflow: Handle with Care : SL3 Blend3

SketchFlow, Photoshop and Illustrator import, behaviours, Designing with data, Source code control, XAML, C# and VB intellisense

Microsoft Sidewinder demo – very cool UI… demonstrating building it using sketchflow – reference Bill Butsons talk.

Love the wriggly control set that looks like a real prototype instead of showing clients what looks like a final product.

Sketchflow player is free and allows clients to view your sketch apps on their machine with their hardware.

client can enter feedback and draw circles/arrows text right on the sketchflow to feedback to you

Also creates a TOC and document of what you’ve got going with screenshots of the sceens and flow.

Waiting for the keynote sitting with John Papa, Frank LaVigne, Pete Brown, Page Brooks, Bryant Likes… woohoo!

Bill Buxton on stage…

“It’s a Good Time for Design!”

Learn and apply what people have done before… iPod colors dang near identical to Kodak camera colors from 90 years ago!

Design should be like screaming down a mountain on a bike scared to death to the point of needing pampers.

Asking the right questions to get the right answers takes experience to know the questions.

Essence of experience is Timing..

Sketching a UI on sticky notes… push a button, go to the next note.

Arrows between the notes end up creating a state transition diagram.

“If you don’t have as much detail in the transitions as you do in the states, you’re going to get it wrong”

Adding transition diagrams to the bottom of the sketches improves the design process

How can we deliver on a thin client the same experience as the large desktops using the same code. THAT is the ultimate ROI

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Seneca

Really Day 1 for me, since I wasn’t in any of the workshops, but I won’t confuse that :)

Up sort of late blogging, and woke up at 4:20 … couldn’t go back to sleep. I think maybe it was the ‘Light shining in my eyes :)

So much goodness to be announced today! If you thought last year was good, this year will blow you away… I’m just sayin’…

More than one person has written to me that they’ve found the new bits already online. I can’t blog about that here, but I’d say user beware… it may be new, it may be stale. I’d for sure check after the keynote and make sure I had the right stuff!

So this morning… breakfast meetup with Laurent, Tim, John Papa, and who knows who… going to be a big noisy table I’m sure.

Keynote at 9 … I don’t have a red shirt in my closet, but I do have a maroon TShirt, so it will have to suffice. 

Then try to figure out where I want to be. Wish I could clone myself but I’m sure it’d be my luck I’d either get the idiot first try or the clone would be smarter than me and in either case that would just be teh suk as my buddy Brian would say :)

Looks like it’s gonna be Joe Stegman 11:30 to 12:45 “What’s new in SL3”

Then lunch

Then 2:15 to 3:30 Mike Harsh’s secret session with no name!

4:00 to 5:15 Jeff Paries on SL Animation… FTW --- need to get a seat early in THAT room!

I want to mention this year’s swag bag…

Whoever is in charge… I really like the waterbottle. I swapped the one I got at the Summit for this one. I’m not much of a straw person, so this is great and seals well.

The notebook…. instead of a big 8-1/2 by 11 ring binder (which was tres cool, btw), we have a small profile notebook..like the size of a paperback. Once you pull the filler out it snaps shut real nice and I like it a lot.

TShirt, book, etc…

Don’t forget to hit up Robby for some laptop bling, and Shawn Wildermuth is dragging some swag around to give away as well!

Just looked outside, it’s still dark… wow… and here I thought I was getting ready to run down to the Venetian :)

Stay tuned, stay watching Twitter… I’ll try to blog during the day, and most definitely

Stay in the ‘Light!