Today at MIX there was still no shortage of sessions on WPF and SilverLight. This morning I attended a session on "Whats New in WPF and .NET 3.5". The key improvements noted were
1. Deployment improvements - The size of the core .NET runtime needed to run WPF has been made smaller and more compact. Developers will also be able to give WPF installs their own branding without any Microsoft.NET branded interruptions.
2. An add-in model has been included so custom add-ins can be written for a WPF application.
3. Data improvements include improvements to XLINQ binding, dataset performance, and improved performance in XML DOM binding.
4. Additiional capabilities for Interactive 2D on 3D. For example a textbox can be placed on a 3d surface given background textures or animation, but at the same time it will still function as a textbox
5. Improvements for syndicated client experiences - This further facilitates apps such as content readers etc that consume content via the internet.
These are very high level and I hope to have some demos to run in the future.
In the afternoon, Steve Ballmer and Guy Kawasaki had a keynote or rather Guy interviewed Steve. Steve re-iterated Ozzie's position on expanding Microsoft's advertising platform by potentially acquiring Yahoo. He did mention that Microsoft has made an offer. I hope to have more posts coming soon on WPF and SilverLight.
I hope to have more posts coming soon on WPF and SilverLight.