The Morning Brew

Well MIX09 is well and truly in full flow with a number of significant announcements and beta releases yesterday.

Software

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released! – Possibly the least suprising MIX09 announcement was the release of ASP.NET MVC 1.0. The release version is very similar to the RC2 release, with the addition of JQuery 1.3.2 and a few minor IDE issues being resolved. Congratulations to Phil and the rest of the team for getting this one to release.
• Microsoft Expression – Microsoft also announced and Expression Blend 3 Preview release, with support for Silverlight 3 along with a bunch of new features
• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP – Another MIX09 announcement, the release of the March 09 Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio CTP release.
• Silverlight 3.0 – Another significant announcement was the release of Beta editions of Microsoft Silverlight 3, the latest evolution of the Silverlight RIA platform. This post from Sergejus has links to all the download items.
• RESX Translation Tool – Sergey Obraztsov shares a tool to help with the translation of Resource Files which uses Machine Translation and Excel output to do the first pass translation.

Information

• Microsoft Web Platform, Web Application Gallery, Web Platform Installer (and DasBlog) – Scott Hanselman talks about the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, and the Web Application Gallery which is the place to get applictions which have been packaged with the installer. Scott has already wrapped up DasBlog into an install package, and Phil Haack has bundled upSubtext 2.1.1
• Functional .NET – Lose the Magic Strings – Matthew Podwysocki looks at how the Functional Programming technique of Closures allows you to loose some of the magic strings that creep into out code and tests.
• New WS-* specs published – Jesus Rodriguez shares the news that the Web Services Resource Access Working Group of the W3C have released 5 new working drafts of specifications on the Web Service stack.
• A guide to Silverlight 3 new features – Tim Heuer gives a run down of the new features in Silverlight 3 at the more product announcement end of the spectrum.
• Silverlight 3: More Posts? – Mike Taulty has been posting like a man obsessed with Silverlight 3, with 13 posts on the implementations of some of the new features the V3 beta brings.
• Implementing Audit / history tracking using Prototype Pattern – Shivprasad koirala applies a pattern to a common problem of providing audit trails of changes to values of business objects in this Code Project Article
• Using Extension Methods to Verify Assumptions – Craig Andera looks at a technique that can be applied to Fluent Interfaces which rely on selecting elements from a document that may not be there using Extension Methods to provide meaningful errors if items don’t exist
• A better Model Binder – Jimmy Bogard explores ASP.NET MVC Model Binders and suggests an alternateive default binder implementation.
• Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 4 now available – Bertrand Le Roy shares some more details of the features of Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 4

MIX09

• MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 1: Bill Buxton on Experience Design – Tim Sneath provides a nice write up of the first half of the Keynote featuring Bill Buxton
• MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 2: Scott Guthrie on Advancing User Experiences – And Tim follows up with the second half featuring Scot Guthrie
• Microsoft Web Technology Announcements from MIX09 – Sarah Perez on Channel 10 has the details of the significant announcements and releases from MIX09
• A lap around MIX09 announcements – Simone Chiaretta also has some good coverage of the days events
• MIX 09- Data Services 1.5, Windows Azure Tools, Silverlight 3, Expression Blend 3,ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and .NET RIA Services – ‘ccBoy’ has a post of the download links for all the big announcements and links to some other coverage of the items too.
• Opinions – MIX Online – The Official Mix Opinions blog has soem quality posts from some recognisable names (some linked elsewhere in this post) and will be well worth keeping an eye on as the conference coverage continues

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