Matt’s Blog

Here is the outline from the presentation this morning.   The powerpoint is also attached.

IE 8 Beta 1

• Standards Based - CSS 2.1 and HTML 5
• Web slices
• Web activities
• Ajax Navigation
• Connection Events
• Developer Tools
• Local Storage

• Adaptive streaming in conjunction with Windows Media Services 2008
• Bit rate throttling
• Multi-language Support
  
• New UI controls - Text boxes, grid, etc
  
•  Deep Zoom and Deep Zoom Composer (Sea Dragon)
• Better support of user controls
• Integration with advertising
• Click tracking integration
• Double click to release Silverlight API later this year
• Video events
• Quickly create fly out ads etc

WPF 3.5

• Graphics enhancements - Combine 2D and 3D graphics
• More APIs for syndicated content
• Improved performance
• More controls coming such as a data grid and improved item controls

ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

• Entity Framework
• Designer tools for modeling and creating .NET objects from database objects
• Ajax Improvements
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
  
• Generate grids with Add/edit/delete functionality easily
  
• Check out videos at http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5-extensions-videos/default.aspx
• LINQ
• Langauge integrated query (available in 3.5)
  
• Standard wayof query databases, XML documents, or any IEnumerable collection
• Check out videos at http://www.asp.net/learn/linq-videos/

Demos

• Silverlight Deep Zoom - http://memorabilia.hardrock.com
  
• WPF Browser Application - http://ttpdownload.bl.uk/browserapp.xbap