There have been a bunch of cool announcements here at MIX11. And since I only have half an hour before the next dev session, I’ll make this quick!
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Announcement/Demos |
Why you should care |
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HTML5 Native to Windows |
Microsoft is showing its commitment to HTML5. IE9 is paving the way for these innovative web applications, mostly highlighting performance. You can run these HTML5 demos now in IE9 and other HTML5 compliant browsers. |
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HTML5 Labs |
HTML5 is a moving target. HTML5Labs is a way to safely test and provide feedback on the specification. |
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Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1 |
It was running on ARM! The future is here J |
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Announcement of Developer Conference Event Sept 13 – 16 in California |
Funny this announcement came right after showing the IE10 Platform Preview |
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Entity Framework 4.1 – Code First functionality |
With Code First, database creation comes much later in your application development process, right up to the point where you click “Add New Item” in your app UI! |
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ASP.NET MVC3 Tooling Update –HTML5 templates, jQuery libraries, Nuget package manager, Modernizr |
HTML5 templates alone make this update a very forward-looking one. Also jQuery libraries are automatically included in your projects. Nuget allows you to get open source libraries for Visual Studio. Modernizr is a javascript library that allows HTML to be scaled to each browser target |
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WebMatrix •Razor syntax
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If you haven’t checked WebMatrix before, you’d probably want to check it out now. Templates are a cool way to build your site without starting from scratch. The Razor syntax makes it a lot easier for you to add tidbits such social functionality, etc. I highly recommend you watch the demo. |
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Orchard CMS |
Orchard is a .NET based CMS application. |
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Umbraco |
Umbraco now has a UI-based admin scaling for deployments! For the REST-challenged! |
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Azure Announcements – Web Deployment Tool, update to Azure ACS, release of Caching Service, CTP of Traffic Manager, preview of Azure CDN |
These new capabilities will help developers deploy applications faster, accelerate their application performance and enable access to applications through popular identity providers including Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. |
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