Mix 2010 Day 2 Keynote

17/03/2010

Here is summary of this session:

IE9 is optimized for HTML 5
It passes all http://www.css3.info/ script tests and scores 55 in http://acid3.acidtests.org/ test
It uses more GPU power using Windows 7 Graphics Capabilities
New Developer Toolbar for HTML 5 standards (we can change SVG graphics in real time like css)
HTML 5 Video (podemos testar no youtube http://www.youtube.com/html5) you need to use the IE9 preview
We can use opacity, also in videos, rounded corners using border radius
New Javascript Engine
Preview Version (download and demos): http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ it will be updated from 8 to 8 weeks (more or less)

Multi-monitor support with one single instance (html in one monitor, .cs in another)
Better intellisense
Better code visualization
Better profiling and debugging
ASP.net controls with clean html using css
Smaller View State
Semantic URL out of the box
New for Controls (chart, data…)
New ASP.NET MVC 2 (built in with VS 2010)
Sequence Diagram for a method
New JQuery Plugins (template, data binding)
Better Ajax Development with intellisense with quicker response for javascript libraries
New .config for each stage (development, staging, production) with more simple deployment
Box select (select text from different lines that start and end on the same position and change the text)

http://odata.netflix.com/Catalog (real example of a Windows Azure site running a WCF Data Service with SQL Azure) it’s case sensitive, example http://odata.netflix.com/Catalog/CatalogTitles
SharePoint 2010 has OData protocol for lists
In Visual Studio 2010 this is a WCF Data Services (aka Astoria)
Houston project will allow to create and manage database’s in SQL Azure using the browser and Silverlight on Azure Portal
New project that will allow us to create WCF Data Services from a SQL Azure table in the browser on Azure Portal
Excel 2010 PowerPivot can get data from OData Services
Microsoft Codename Dallas (http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/Dallas)