2. MVC New release IE8 Beta 1 Deep Zoom (sea dragon) Silver light 2.0 Beta 1 Expression Blend 2.5 Preview Instant Messaging API Enhancements to Virtual Earth Surface ADO.NET/SQL/Live data services

3. The Video Game “Rock Band” may be cool to play, but not so much to actually watch geeks playing it. Elvis is learning Silverlight Steve Ballmer Really, Really Loves Web Developers

5. CSS 2.1 compliant (plays nice) CSS Certification (702 test cases) Performance – much faster Javascript AJAX enhancements including navigation HTML 5 Support Cool off line detection and local save feature Developer tools built in Web Slices Activities

6. Access features of web services without leaving the page by right clicking Map Map Ships with… Extendable Replaces the open new page + copy + paste pattern Uses XML to describe content of preview pane

7. Subscribe to a specific part of a page Get updates to the browser itself Popup window right off the tooolbar Can organize into folders Bolds when an update happens Can update every 15 minutes Easy XML description to make content subscribable to anyone

9. Sea Dragon technology used for Deep Zoom Can handle collections of extremely high resolution photos Seamless zooming Will be used on many products moving forward Composer Beta available for download

11. Pros Uses eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML) Based on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology Allows Rich Media experience (720P HD Video) Plug in Installs fast and easily Cons No out of the box input controls Javascript Only Need to install the plug-in

12. Pros All the features in 1.0 (WPF, XAML, and Rich Media) Rich User Control for forms Developer support for debugging Client side development in C#, Vb.net, Ruby, Python, and yes, Javascript too. Local Storage IT WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD Cons New technology; so new exploits may be possible. Need to install the plug-in. Not entire CLR or WPF supported. You may not ever want to do web development again.

13. Web Browser Cookie Local Storage Provides 10MB of app specific local storage Can be expanded per app by prompting the user Exposed through.NET Isolated Storage APIs

15. Client Platforms Mac PC (In multiple browser flavors) Linux (moon light) Mobile PC (new) Server Platforms IISApachelighttpd Sun Java System Web Server

16. .html.aspxSharepoint Virtual Earth Deep Zoom

18. http://silverlight.net/default.aspx Blogs: http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/ http://mattberseth.com/blog/ http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/jstegman/ http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/default.aspx

19. API is written in JavaScript Can write code in C# and use Script# to push out JavaScript code (http://www.nikhilk.net/ScriptSharpIntro.aspx) Can Enable any Web Site to use Instant Messaging http://blogs.msdn.com/messenger/

20. IntelliSense library for Virtual Earth (http://www.codeplex.com/VEJS) http://www.codeplex.com/VEJS New Toolkit coming out in April Will be integrating Deep Zoom in future releases Can be used with Silverlight

22. Retail Location Kiosks may eventually become technology for home. Start rolling out in spring in partner locations Sheraton, Harrah’s, T-Mobile http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

23. http://visitmix.com/http://sessions.visitmix.com/

24. Expression Studio Beta (download) IE 8 Beta (download) IE 8 Virtual Machines (download) Expression Blend 2.5 Preview (download) Deep Zoom Composer (download) Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 (download) ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (download) ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview (December 2007) (download) http://visitmix.com/blogs/Joshua/Get-the- Software-Tools-Featured-at-MIX08