http://fusionovation.com/blogs/mbohn/archive/tags/ASP.NET+AJAX/default.aspxTags: ASP.NET AJAXenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)http://fusionovation.com/blogs/mbohn/archive/2008/03/13/topics-from-mix08.aspxThu, 13 Mar 2008 14:32:00 GMT3873cc62-7325-4c9d-b6a6-c9952780d65c:13mbohn0http://fusionovation.com/blogs/mbohn/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=13http://fusionovation.com/blogs/mbohn/archive/2008/03/13/topics-from-mix08.aspx#comments<p>Here is the outline from the presentation this morning. &nbsp; The powerpoint is also attached.</p><br /><p> IE 8 Beta 1</p><ul><li>Standards Based - CSS 2.1 and HTML 5</li><li>Web slices</li><li>Web activities</li><li>Ajax Navigation</li><li>Connection Events</li><li>Developer Tools</li><li>Local Storage</li></ul>Silverlight 2.0 Beta<br /><ul><li>Adaptive streaming in conjunction with Windows Media Services 2008</li><li>Bit rate throttling</li><li>Multi-language Support<br /></li><li>New UI controls - Text boxes, grid, etc<br /></li><li>&nbsp;Deep Zoom and Deep Zoom Composer (Sea Dragon)</li><li>Better support of user controls</li><li>Integration with advertising</li><ul><li>Click tracking integration</li><li>Double click to release Silverlight API later this year</li><li>Video events</li><li>Quickly create fly out ads etc</li></ul></ul><p>WPF 3.5</p><ul><li>Graphics enhancements - Combine 2D and 3D graphics</li><li>More APIs for syndicated content</li><li>Improved performance</li><li>More controls coming such as a data grid and improved item controls</li></ul><p>ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview</p><ul><li>Entity Framework</li><ul><li>Designer tools for modeling and creating .NET objects from database objects </li></ul><li>Ajax Improvements</li><li>ASP.NET Dynamic Data<br /></li><ul><li>Generate grids with Add/edit/delete functionality easily <br /></li><li>Check out videos at <a href="http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5-extensions-videos/default.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5-extensions-videos/default.aspx</a></li></ul><li>LINQ</li><ul><li>Langauge integrated query (available in 3.5) <br /></li><li>Standard wayof query databases, XML documents, or any IEnumerable collection</li><li>Check out videos at <a href="http://www.asp.net/learn/linq-videos/" target="_blank">http://www.asp.net/learn/linq-videos/</a></li></ul></ul><p>Demos</p><ul><li>Silverlight Deep Zoom - <a href="http://memorabilia.hardrock.com">http://memorabilia.hardrock.com</a> <br /></li><li>WPF Browser Application - <a href="http://ttpdownload.bl.uk/browserapp.xbap">http://ttpdownload.bl.uk/browserapp.xbap</a></li></ul>I hope to post some code demos in the future.<br /><br /><img src="http://fusionovation.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=13" width="1" height="1">Microsoft MIX08SilverlightWPFASP.NET AJAX