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.
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posted @ Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:59 AM