Yesterday I was at the MiX Essentials Event by Microsoft in cooperation with Siemens. Main topics were web technologies and user experience and there were many interesting speakers. I met some colleagues from university and some long-not-seen co-workers as well. It was a really nice but (I got up at 5 in the morning and got home at 8 in the evening) exhausting day.
The tracks I listened to were:
- Web development with ASP.NET 3.5 by Mario Szpuszta
As usual very refreshing because of the incredible talking speed and humor Mario gave a good overview what's new when upgrading from ASP.NET 2.0 to 3.5. Basically there are LINQ-Support, 3 new Controls (ListView, some paging-control and the LINQ-datasource) and something I already forgot again. - A Design Vision for Microsoft Surface by August de Los Reyes
A very open minded presentation about the role of emotions in the design process. Can't say more - it was very intersting but I still have to sort out my mind about this one. - 2 tracks about Silverlight 2.0 and the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) by Max Knor
In my opinion now Silverlight is technically advanced enough to invest time in it. Now it is possible to create UI's with WPF and code-behind in .NET languages. Interaction between embedding HTML/JavaScript and Silverlight is possible in both directions.
The WPF also features some nice functionality which makes even more fancy UI designs possible. I am very excited what will come out of this in the near future...
As usual I was too overwhelmed by the event itself that I completly forgot to take some pictures.
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