Archive for the 'MIX' Category

The Spoils of MIX

0 Comments Posted by Michael March 17th, 2010 in Betas, Internet Explorer, MIX, XNA, windows phone

MIX is on at the moment in Las Vegas, and Microsoft is really showing off all of the cool things coming this year.
The big focus of MIX10 is of course, Windows Phone 7. Now this is a developer & designer conference, so the focus is on how to use Silverlight and XNA to make [...]

Silverlight 3 and Expression 3

0 Comments Posted by Michael July 11th, 2009 in Betas, MIX, Software, silverlight

Just last night Silverlight 3 was officially released to the public for general use, along with a new Silverlight website, a virtual launch (SeeTheLight) and the Expression Blend 3 RC (with Sketchflow!).
The new features in Silverlight 3 include, but are not limited to:

Support for MPEG4 H.264/AAC
Full 720p+ support
GPU accelerated HD playback
Perspective [...]

Early MIX Beta/Link Roundup

2 Comments Posted by Michael March 19th, 2009 in MIX, Microsoft, Software

Silverlight 3
Silverlight 3 Beta Runtime (Mac)
Silverlight Tools for VS2008 SP1
Silverlight 3 SDK
Related documentation
 
Other Dev Tools/Runtimes
.NET RIA Services March ‘09 Preview
Azure Tools for VS2008 – March 2009 CTP
 
Expression Suite
Expression Blend 3 Preview (Not up yet) (See comments for direct link)
Expression Web 3 SuperPreview (See previous post)
 
More links will be added as I find them.

Expression Web 3 – Not your everyday WYSIWYG Web Editor

1 Comment Posted by Michael March 18th, 2009 in MIX, Microsoft, Software

(via Long Zheng)
Microsoft today broke their own NDA on a subset of the features in the upcoming Expression Web 3, which is a part of the Expression set of tools (and as a result will be in Dreamspark when it is released).
One of the big features that will come with Expression Web 3 (EW3 [...]