Waiting for MIX'11: what to look for?

Very soon, on April 12, at 09-00 in Las Vegas (20-00 Moscow time) , the largest MIX conference dedicated to mobile technologies and web development, conducted by Microsoft, will begin . The conference will feature 125 technical reports on a wide variety of topics: ASP.NET, HTML5, UX, CSS3, Silverlight, Windows Phone, web standards, Windows Azure, JavaScript, development tools and much more. Of these, 47 reports will be read by third-party experts and guest speakers.


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It is quite reliably known that the new version of Silverlight 5 Beta with a large number of innovations will be presented on MIX'11.

Below I tried to highlight interesting reports by category.

ASP.NET

• Agile .NET Cloud-Deployment with Git ;
• Facebook Development in .NET ;
• Fun with ASP.NET MVC 3 and MEF ;
• I recommend Scott Hanselman’s report: An Overview of the MS Web Stack of Love ;
• I recommend the Phil Haack report: ASP.NET MVC 3 @ -The Time is Now ;
• Bigger, Faster, Stronger-Optimizing ASP.NET Applications ;
• I recommend a report about Orchard CMS: Deconstructing Orchard-Build, Customize, Extend, Ship ;
• Knockout JS-Helping you build dynamic JavaScript UIs with MVVM and ASP.NET ;
• Pragmatic JavaScript, jQuery & AJAX with ASP.NET ;
• I recommend a report on the future of WebForms: Web Forms- Reports of My Death are Greatly Exaggerated ;
• Sharpen Your Web Development Skills with Razor and Umbraco CMS ;
• Walking the Razor's Edge with DotNetNuke ;
• Scaffolding - ASP.NET, NuGet, Entity Framework Code First and More ;
• WCF Web APis- There's a URI for That ;

HTML5 and web standards

• recommend The Future of HTML5 ;
• Design, Content, Code-Start-to-Finish ;
• I recommend: HTML5 Canvas Mastery ;
• I recommend: Deep Dive Into HTML5 canvas ;
• CSS3 Takes on the World ;
• I recommend: Hot from the Labs- HTML5 WebSockets ;
• Riding the geolocation wave ;
• Modernizing Your Website- SVG Meets HTML5 ;
• I recommend a report on the use of CSS3 / HTML5 in SharePoint: Designing Great Experiences for SharePoint 2010 ;
• Designer and Developer; A Case for the Hybrid ;
• Seeing what you need to do today ;
• I recommend: 50 Performance Tricks to Make Your HTML5 Web Sites Faster ;
• Data in an HTML5 World ;
• HTML5 for Silverlight Developers ;
• The Devil Went Down to HTTP Debugging with Fiddler ;
• The View of the World Depends on the Glasses I Wear ;
• Is that a Sherpa on Your Shoulder ;
• Building Adaptive HTML5 Applications ;
• Filling the HTML5 Gaps with Polyfills and Shims ;
• Hacking with the F12 Developer Tools ;
• HTML5 for Skeptics ;
• Microformats and Semantic Markup ;
• Making Better Web Apps For Today's Browsers ;
• What are We Doing on the Web ;

Javascript

• Good JavaScript Habits for C # Developers ;
• Script # - Compiling C # to JavaScript using Visual Studio ;
• ECMAScript 5- The New Parts ;
• Writing Maintainable JavaScript ;
• JavaScript- The Language ;

Windows Azure

• I recommend: What's New in the Windows Azure Platform ;
• Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform ;
• 10 Things You Didn't Could Do With Windows Azure ;
• Deliver Content Fast with Windows Azure CDN ;
• Windows Azure DataMarket ;
• Windows Azure from Startup to Scale ;
• Developing iPhone and iPad Apps that Leverage Windows Azure ;
• Windows Azure Storage- Getting Started and Best Practices ;
• Build Fast Web Applications with Windows Azure AppFabric Caching ;
• Powering Data On The Web And Beyond With SQL Azure ;
• I recommend a mini-report about Umbraco CMS and Azure: Life in the Fast Lane-Rapidly Deploy Umbraco CMS on Windows Azure ;
• DotNetNuke and Azure- Taking Your Business to the Cloud ;
• Identity Unraveled with the Access Control Service ;
• A Soccer Team in the Clouds- Social Gaming Running in Windows Azure ;

Open source

• NuGet In Depth-Empowering Open Source on the .NET Platform ;
• I recommend: Mono- State of the Union ;
• I recommend: Node.js, Ruby, and Python in Windows Azure- A Look at What's Possible ;
• OData Roadmap - Exposing Any Data ;
• OData in Action Connecting Any Data Source to Any Device ;
• OData Roadmap- Services Powering Next Generation Experiences ;
• Building Data-centric N-tier Applications with jQuery ;
• Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) ;
• Rx- A Library for Managing Windows Phone 7 Application ;

Windows Phone 7 / XNA

• a number of sessions with closed topics (TBA), which will tell about future technologies of Windows Phone;
• Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Phone 7 ;
• XNA Game Studio for Fun, Profit, Danger, Excitement and Windows Phone 7 Games ;
• I recommend: Analyzing and Improving Windows Phone Application Performance ;
• Flickr API- Tap Into Billions of Photos for Windows Phone 7 ;
• XNA Game Studio for Fun, Profit, Danger, Excitement and Windows Phone 7 Games ;
• All Thumbs- Redesigning an Existing UI to Suit Windows Phone 7 ;
• Deep Dive MVVM ;
• The Tale of Two Apps- Making a Splash in the Windows Phone Marketplace ;
• For Your Windows Phone 7 Applications ;
• Building Windows Phone 7 Applications with the Windows Azure Platform ;
• Creating Windows Phone Applications Using Expression Blend ;
• Making Money with your Application on Windows Phone ;

Silverlight / MVVM / Media

• I recommend: Advanced Features in Silverlight 5 ;
• I recommend: Graphics & 3D with Silverlight 5 ;
• MMP Player Framework- Past, Present, Future
• Deep Dive MVVM ;
• Effective Validation Techniques with MVVM in Silverlight ;
• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5 ;
• Behind the Scenes of Channel 9 Live at MIX ;
• I recommend: Introducing Microsoft Media Platform (MMP) ;
• Introducing MMP Content Manager ;
• Introducing MMP Audience Insight ;
• MMP Video Editor ;
• MMP Player Framework- Past, Present, Future ;
• DIVA - The Future of Sports Online ;
• Built with Silverlight ; Tips for Improving Performance ;

UX / NUI

• Audio for Kinect- From Idea to Xbox, Play! ;
• Get Real! Sketch, Prototype, and Capture Great Ideas with Expression Blend and SketchFlow ;
• New Technologies for Immersive Content Creation ;
• The Microsoft Surface MVPs Present-Natural User Interfaces, Today and Tomorrow; An Interactive ;
• A Whole NUI World-Microsoft Surface 2 and Windows Touch ;
• Crafty UX - UX Lightning Series ;
• Inspiring UX - UX Lightning Series ;
• Mind Bending UX - UX Lightning Series ;
• I recommend: Fonts, Form and Function- A Primer on Digital Typography ;
• Designing Infographics for Web Applications ;
• The Cross-Channel Experience ;
• Application Design for Windows Phone ;
• Back to Square One ;
• Adding the Awesomesauce Flavor with Internet Explorer 9 Pinned Sites ;