Here we are at MIX 11 in Las Vegas, NV. The exhibit hall is very cool with big IE9 and IE10 kiosks in the middle where developers can try the latest bits of IE. Our booth is right next to it, and everyone is actually running straight to us for those cool T-Shirts J. The organizers of the event did a good job setting everything up so that our team could catch up on some needed sleep.
Speaking of IE9 and IE10... Everyone is talking about today’s keynote and the exciting features that the IE team was able to deliver with the latest release of IE9. Dean Hachamovitch and Steven Sinofsky demoed IE9 and Chrome side by side focusing on how hardware acceleration truly changes the user experience, especially for the new capabilities in HTML5. If that wasn’t exciting enough, the guys have announced an IE 10 Platform Preview. Definitely check it out!
Later, Scott Guthrie recapped some awesome things his team has put out this year: MVC 3, Razor, WebMatrix and NuGet. Yes, totally #winning Scott (an inside keynote joke J). Scott also announced Entity Framework 4.1 and a new update to the ASP.NET MVC Tools. The new update brings HTML5 support into the MVC3 project wizards, jQuery 1.5 and Modernizr - http://www.modernizr.com/ more on those later.
Then, Mr. Gu invited Scott Hanselman to the stage where Scott H. showed how he built http://thisdeveloperslife.com/ using Visual Studio, WebMatrix and EF 4.1.
I am off to catch a session, will keep you guys posted...Here's a photo of our kiosk for those interested (and if you are here in Vegas, make sure to stop by say hell o and get your VIP pass for the party Wed night)
Cheers
Azret