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1. The Cirque du Soleil keynote demo, the most engaging articulation of WPF’s “richer, smarter, more productive line-of-business app” message since Avalon Healthcare. 2. More Microsoft Research innovation sees the light of day in the product groups and for developers at large. Deep Zoom becomes available to developers through ...

The premise behind this session is the idea of separation of UI designers and developers. The UI people don't know how to code business rules. But the UI people need to be able to 'try out' the user interface and easily make changes. This is the designer/developer separation that is in the Web space, only in this case, it's for Windows Forms ...

Just got back from the Steve Ballmer / Guy Kawasaki keynote at this year’s Mix. Is Guy ever not on form? He did a great job asking Steve the tough questions, making it fun, and getting a few candid answers, along with some “PR” answers as well, including Steve’s cautious response to “What about [...]

Head over to Tim Sneath’s blog for a list of all download links related to the keynote this morning.

First let’s get to the obvious Silverlight announcements we “knew” were coming during this keynote: - Silverlight 2.0 Beta is available! - Expression Blend 2.5 (!) March Preview is available! - formal announcement of Silverlight Mobile device support! In my presentation last weekend I was asked about Silverlight adoption stats, ...

I’ve just stepped out from the first Mix Keynote I’ve attended as a consultant rather than a Microsoftie.  There was no real shocker in there, but it was a solid keynote and I am enthused by a couple of exciting announcements Ray Ozzie began by saying he sees Mix08 as one of several milestones on a [...]

Thanks to everyone who came out to my WPF and Silverlight presentation at the Toronto CodeCamp event yesterday.  It was great to have a chance to speak with so many interested and enthusiastic people who hung around after the talk.   Because the presentation was a riff on my What's New in WPF 3.5 and Silverlight talk from ObjectSharp's ...

I’m presenting at the Toronto Code Camp on Saturday about What’s new in Visual Studio 2008 for WPF 3.5 and Silverlight developers. My presentation will be an updated version of the presentation I gave at ObjectSharp’s Visual Studio 2008 At the Movies event, which hopefully you’ll find interesting and useful if you’re ...