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MIX08 - Day3

Well.... Its the last day of MIX08... First lecture on "Bringing Data to life in WPF" by Anson Tsao was very pathetic. He described binding mechanisms for dummies... For someone, who develops WPF this lecture was one big waste of time. The session on Web Analytics with Silverlight by Michael Scherotter was good, but for me not enough technical. Last one I have on this MIX was "Working with Data and Web Services in Silverlight 2" by Eugene Osovetsky. The session was very interesting...

MIX08 - Day 2

Well, second day was nice with a lot of interesting lectures and second keynote from Steve Ballmers. I've attended on at Rob Releya's "Whats new in WPF 3.5" and Karen Corby's "Creating Rich, Dynamic UI  with Silverlight 2". Karen did a very good presentation, and was focused on creating reusable component methods in Silverlight 2, many code, samples, etc.. Rod did brief overview on upcoming service release for .Net 3.5 with a lot of demos,  but what I've...

MIX08 - Day 1

Well, day 1 is over... It was very interesting day. I've started (like majority of attendees) on Keynote, being presented by Roy Ozzie, Scott Guthrie and Dean Hachamovitch. It was very big excitement on announcing Silverlight 2 Beta1 and IE8 Beta. Lots of great demos and showcases by partners (AOE mail, Hard Rock Cafe with Deep Zoom, WeatherBug with Silverlight mobile for Nokia platform ), etc.   So, here are the major release downloads: Silverlight 2 runtime ( download )  Silverlight...