| Microsoft had an interesting first day keynote for the MIX11 conference in Las Vegas. We put a cool Silverlight Photo SlideShow at Vertigo (http://www.vertigo.com/MIX11.aspx). I found it a little tricky to get all of the download links so I am collecting them here for easy reference: |
- ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update | Download
- Support for HTML5
- Includes NuGet 1.2 (pronounced “new get”)
- JavaScript libraries within project templates are updatable via NuGet
- Includes Modernizr 1.7 which provides compatibility support for HTML5 and CSS3 in down-level browsers
- Intranet Project Template that enables Windows Authentication
- New Features in the Add Controller Dialog
- Automatic scaffolding for CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) controller actions and corresponding views -- data access code defaults to using Entity Framework Code Firs
- Extensible scaffolds via NuGet packages such as MvcScaffolding
- ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 included as a pre-installed NuGet package
- DbContext API
- Simplified abstraction over ObjectContext and a number of other types that were included in previous releases of the ADO.NET Entity Framework
- DbContext API surface is optimized for common tasks and coding patterns
- Code First
- is a new development pattern for the ADO.NET Entity Framework and provides an alternative to the existing Database First and Model First patterns
- Focused around defining your model using C# classes, these classes can then be mapped to an existing database or be used to generate a database schema
- Additional configuration can be supplied using Data Annotations or via a fluent API
- DbContext API
- Microsoft Media Platform: Player Framework | SSME1.5 Update 1 Download | SMF 2.5 Download
- Silverlight Media Framework is now the Microsoft Media Platform Media Player available at http://smf.codeplex.com
- Stereoscopic 3D support
- Anaglyph Stereoscopic 3D video plugin (supports Anaglyph 3D, Greyscale 3D, Left eye only modes)
- NVidia 3DVision Active Shutter Stereoscopic 3D plugin
- S3DProperties property added to PlaylistItem class
- Support for 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D plugins
- Advertising support
- MAST (Media Abstract Sequencing Template) - supports ad sequencing and targeting
- VAST 2.0 (Digital Video Ad Serving Template) - supports ad definitions and tracking
- VPAID 1.1 (Digital Video Player-Ad Interface Definition) - supports actual playback of ads
- Extensible architecture to plug in your own ad sequencing engines, ad handlers, and ad players
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview #1 | Download
Very exciting first day of MIX11. Looking forward to what Microsoft has in store for tomorrow!
