Wrap from Mix 11 Day 1
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 06:44PM I’m running a virtual training event for the next few weeks but that didn’t stop me from catching up on the Mix Day 1 Keynote and all the buzz from the conference today. You can catch up on the keynote too with the recording at http://live.visitmix.com/Keynotes Also if you want the full press release you can find it here. Or read on and here are a few notes I took while catching up!
You might not even have installed IE 9 yet (why not? ) but a preview release of IE10 is now online at http://ietestdrive.com – they plan to update the preview every 8-12 weeks. Key things highlighted in this preview are CSS3 FlexBox, CSS3 Grid Alignment, CSS3 Multi-column and CSS3 Gradients. This preview is suppose to be able to run side by side too with IE9 (IE8 has some issues for side by side FYI)
MVC3 Tooling Update - http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc3 which includes HTML 5 Templates, Modernizr support (http://www.modernizr.com/), new hooks for DI and Global Action Filters to name a few.
Razor Templates at Template Monster - http://tinyurl.com/44g7rqu - these plug right into WebMatrix
Lot’s of Windows Azure news today as well today at Mix11. The first release of AppFabric Caching and an update for AppFabric Access Control and has been released (more details here ) Both while live, can be used for free until at least Jan 2012! If you haven’t checked out Access Control it’s the easiest way I’ve seen to add LiveID, Yahoo,Facebook and Google sign in to your site.
Another thing I’ve been looking for is smooth streaming hosting from Windows Azure Storage. That’s now available in preview for Windows Azure CDN.
Offers for MSDN and Cloud Essential Pack have also been extended and have some increased resources – you can find the revised benefits here
The momentum from Microsoft right now is pretty high and with another Keynote tomorrow I’m expecting to hear a lot more about Silverlight and Windows Phone
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