Mix08 Videos

Thanks all for coming out and participating in the conversation surrounding future web technologies and Silverlight 2 over the last week and a half. As promised this is my post outlining the various things that I presented including source code when available and all that other good stuff! Remember dozens of detailed session on all the cool new web stuff is available at http://sessions.visitmix.com. You can watch the "Olympic NBC Demo" as part of the MIX Keynote Video. VIDEO IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling Module EXPRESSION VERSION 2 - HAS LAUNCHED http://www.microsoft.com/expression/ "ARROWHEAD" ScottGu has the lowdown on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta and the other Scott (who is coming to Tech.Ed NZ) asks the question of whether you should fear this release? Scott also chips in with a 7 video Introduction to ASP.NET Dynamic Data. Ivan Towlson, from Mindscape asked me a question during the Auckland session that I promised to publish the answer here. He asked: "Are we treating .NET 3.5 SP1 as a separate project type when it ships as part of multi-targeting in VS2008?" Scott Guthrie responded: No – you will still target it using the .NET 3.5 drop down in VS 2008. There is a separate checkbox though for whether you want to target the client-profile setup (which will allow you to get compile errors if you try and reference an assembly not in the client subset). For the next release of VS we are hoping to expand multi-targeting so that you can target not just big versions of frameworks, but also individual SPs as well. "DEEP ZOOM" View the Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia site. Take a look at BigPicture. Check out the updated Deep Zoom Composer and the PhotoZoom service. Also the code I based my Business Card demo (view it here - try tags "silverlight", "expression", "blue" or "card" to filter) was made available by Wilfred Pinto in his Dissecting Hard Rock Memorabilia post series. The DeepZoom Composer Forum is great place to ask q's about this stuff. SILVERLIGHT 2 - EXAMPLES I showed some examples of Silverlight applications in my session. Including the Magnify Glass demo that ships with Expression Blend 2 And the Microsoft Health Common User Interface (MSCUI) Silverlight 2 sample that uses a similar technique to magnify parts of a video of the heart. Jaime Rodriguez has the word on the Silverlight in Financial's Demonstrator including source code. I also showed the in some centres the Silverlight 2 Surface Demo that includes DeepZoom, with source code. DIGG SAMPLE IN SILVERLIGHT 2 The Digg Sample that I stepped through in the session (available for you to try online thanks to "free hosting" at http://silverlight.live.com) was based on ScottGu's great 8 part tutorial series. Dan Wahlin has taken these steps and made them available as bite sized videos. Creating Hello World With Silverlight 2 and VS 2008 Using Layout Management Using Networking to Retrieve Data and Populate a DataGrid Using Style Elements to Better Encapsulate Look and Feel Using the List Box and Data Binding to Display List Data Using User Controls to Implement Master Details Scenarios Using Templates to Customize Control Look and Feel Creating a Digg Desktop Version of Our Application Using WPF If you want to Start Learning Silverlight 2 there are tutorials, hands on labs (Swiss End-2-End example) and videos available to help you. Also if you are interested in design and UX Arturo has made his XAML Ready Agency training and also Silverlight Bootcamp For Designers available. Corrina Barber does a great job of "re-skinning" the Digg Sample App, and shares some great samples of control skinning as well. Jose from Cynergy took the demo much much further and also made his code available on codeplex. For Silverlight 1, the Silverlight learning snacks have just been made available. CHERRY Oh yeah and I can't leave without giving you all a cherry! Silverlight 1 (Moonlight) first source code release for Linux and Silverlight 2 said Hello in Linux Bill Gates Demonstrates Touch Wall Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates demonstrates Touch Wall, a new hardware technology from Microsoft that creates a touch-based “white board” interface that lets users interact more naturally with data and applications on their computer. Microsoft CEO Summit 2008, Redmond, Wash. May 14, 2008. .wmv file (27.7 MB) | .mpg file (279 MB) Just think of the Silverlight Surface Demo running on Touch Wall! TechCrunch coverage Touch Wall and Plex Tags: mix08, NZWC

JavaScript is a massively popular language.  Programs written in JavaScript can be deployed to more users and more machines than any other language given the prominence of script-enabled web browsers and web surfing.  Yet the language hasn’t evolved since the spec was signed off in 1999. Why? At MIX08, we were lucky enough to get three of the world’s top JavaScript experts to talk to us about the future of the language, the “Zen” of JavaScript, and tips and tricks on performance and management of large JavaScript projects.  Douglas Crockford is the guy who first identified and evangelized some of the techniques like closures and lambdas that are now mainstays of JavaScript ninjas.  He works at Yahoo! on JavaScript frameworks including the widely-use JavaScript toolkit in YUI.  Alex Russell is the creator of the popular Dojo Toolkit for JavaScript, and heavily involved in pushing improvements across the various runtimes.  Joseph Smarr is chief architect and employee #1 at Plaxo, and is a well-known expert on JavaScript best practices – you can see the talks he gave at Mozilla and Yahoo! on JavaScript performance.Enjoy!Low res file here. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

In this week's episode, Brian, Dan, and Clint finish off our Mix spectacular with clips from:- Clint interviewing Miguel De Icaza including what Karate Kid Part I can teach students (0:50)- Chris Auld demonstrating an IIS module that dynamically combines resources (css, images, javascript, etc) resulting in 400% perf  improvements, all with no code changes (2:57)- John Sagiovanni showing of Zumobi, a free, extensible Windows Mobile app that connects your favorite services (6:57)- Scott Hanselman and Clint Rutkas talking about Clint's segway skateboard and how Scott helped Clint redesign his other application for extensibility (12:33)- 3rd Place Show Off Contest -  Wii Data Visualizations and Multipoint by Veracity Solutions (19:18)- 2nd Place Show Off Contest -  Realtime Physics in Silverlight by Bill Reiss, Andy Beaulieu, and Jeff Weber (21:43)- 1st Place Show Off Contest - Crayon Physics Deluxe by Kloonigames (24:47) - Scott Hanselman does Jerry Seinfield and William Shatner/Captain Kirk imitations (27:45) Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

We try to cool it on the proselytizing, while also keeping the iPhone SDK hype to a minimum. Both tasks are incredibly hard. In other news today, the Air Force is going to take charge of the Internet, using the sacred "six Ds" principle. Look out!

At the MIX08 conference, a lot of new, great stuff was announced, here is one place to download everything and try out the sites that were featured (like Hard Rock's Memorabilia). The Ultimate Link List is here! Here we go. Downloads: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 (x86) Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 (x64) Windows XP (x86) Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x86) Windows Server 2003 SP2 / Windows XP (x64) Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Runtime Silverlight 2 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 and SDK Source Code / Unit Tests for Silverlight 2 Controls Expression Studio 2 Beta (contains Blend, Design, Encoder, Media and Web) Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview Expression DeepZoom Composer ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Office Live Workspace add-in Stuff To See: Hard Rock Memorabilia site which features Seadragon The new, Silverlight version of the AOL webmail client Flotzam Design Contest Winner - video of the mashup, Flotzam NBC Olympics homepage on MSN Office Live Workspace Keynotes/Demos from MIX08: Hard Rock keynote/demo  Steve Ballmer and Guy Kawasaki Keynote: Ray Ozzie, Dean Hachamovitch, Scott Guthrie Interviews: Interview with Hard Rock Folks Demo of IE8 & Interview Business Value of UX: Move Networks - Interview with Greg of Move Networks Accessibility in Silverlight 2 - Mark Rideout explains the new accessibility enhancements in Silverlight 2 Blazing Fast AOL Mail with Silverlight - Interview with Roy & Eric of AOL (yes, that was a live demo of AOL, btw) Silverlight on Mobile Phones - Demo and Q&A with Amit Chopra of the Mobile Developers Group Other: First Look at IE8 Activites and Webslices (video) Inside IE8 Beta 1 for Developers (video) Silverlight homepage Expression Studio homepage IE Blog MIX08 on Twitter MIX08 on Facebook SQL Data Services beta signup page SQL Data Services blog SQL Server Data Services and the Future of Data in the Cloud (video) Hompepages of presenters: AOL, Aston Martin, Cirque du Soleil, DoubleClick, Hard Rock, Move Networks Stuff tagged "MIX08" on Channel 9 (Thanks to Tim Sneath for posting the Dev Links on his blog.)

You can watch the Steve Ballmer keynote live starting about now at http://www.visitmix.com And 25 sessions are already available at http://sessions.visitmix.com - here are a few I'll be downloading for the flight home (below are WMV download links, if you go to the site you can also play in Silverlight and download for iPod): CT01 - Building RIAs Using Microsoft Silverlight Pt1 CT02 - Building RIAs Using Microsoft Silverlight Pt2 BCT07 - Encoding Video for Microsoft Silverlight Delivery Scenarios T12 - Mobile Devices and Silverlight T07 - RESTful Data Services with ADO.NET Data Services Framework BCT08 - Welcome to Internet Explorer 8 T13 - Working with Data and Web Services in Silverlight 2 Technorati Tags: silverlight,mix08,sessions

 We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap: - We have a new logo (courtesy of Lincoln Anderson at 352 Media) and Scott Hanselman joins us in-studio (0 - 1:45)- Microsoft Entertainment and Devices acquires Danger Inc for consumer mobile phones (1:35 - 3:38)- Microsoft Virtual Earth acquires Caligari for 3D rendering (3:38 - 5:32)- Dan interviews Bill Gates and Bill leaves Facebook (5:32 - 8:17)- Microsofties saying so and actually (8:17 - 9:04)- Charles Torre's Lang.NET interview of Wayne Kelly and Charles Nutter on implementing Ruby on static VMs and Wayne Kelly's post after Lang.NET on moving Ruby.NET efforts to IronRuby and the DLR. (9:04 - 11:57)- Terrell Cox on UX @ Microsoft and Scott relays his WOW experience when setting up Windows Server 2008 (11:57 - 14:20)- Minh's Yellow Harvest Movie Trailer and Star Wars trivia (14:20 - 16:00)- Brian's Pick of the week: Fixing SLN files that don't open (16 - 18:13) - Dan's Pick of the week: Geek proves LifeHacker's story on Felonspy.com is a scam (18:31 - 20:15)- Scott's Pick of the week: ASP.NET MVC is source changeable (20:15 - 22:39)- Scott pulls a BillG and bails early on us (24:10)- Scott does some *not to be missed* hilarious imitations of what it would be like if celebrities were coders Bill Cosby, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, Ross Perot, and more (24:55 - End) Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

In this two-part interview, Scott Guthrie gives a preview of the technology that will be discussed at Mix (www.visitmix.com). In Part 1, Scott talks about IIS 7.0 for developers, how they've improved hosting scalability, improvements to configuration management and deployment with the recent release of Web Deployment project tools, and the improvements to production debugging and instrumentation. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video