Dennis van der Stelt

MIX08 announcements

Last year was a surprise to developers that so much new technology was announced at MIX07. I was there and had a blast. This year I have to read the news from behind my pc. But I'm gathering all news for you and myself.

• Silverlight 2 with GoLive license.
  It's downloadable!
  Silverlight 2 Beta 1 for Windows
  Silverlight 2 Beta 1 for Mac
• Silverlight 2 now has controls.
  But that's not just it, you get source code and a lot (!) of unit tests for the controls. Always nice to have a look at.
• Silverlight on Nokia phones
  Microsoft announced that with the help of Nokia they're porting Silverlight to the Nokia S60. The plan is to show it during the keynote.
  Read more...
• Silverlight 2 for Windows Mobile
  Yeah! All my dreams coming true! First .NET Compact Framework, then WCF and now Silverlight?! What could I want more?!
  See the first mobile app in Silverlight here. This is IE though! :)
• Silverlight 2 and Seadragon
  Zooming in on extreme large images.
• Silverlight and Sharepoint
  Read about it here.
• WPF & Shading support
  Support for some cool hardware accelerated shaders! Do I hear WPF games?! :)
• Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
  It's released, download here for Vista, download for WinXP here.

Awesome!