MIX 10 – First Day Wrap up

MIX 10 – First Day Wrap up

As I wrote earlier
this week I’m
attending the MIX
conference at Las
Vegas.
This is a summary of the
first day I had in the conference.

The day started with a keynote session by Scott Guthrie. The keynotes
included information about Silverlight 4, Windows Phone 7 and more.
Lots of cool demos and exciting news for web developers.

After the keynote I went to the Building Offline/Cache mode web Apps
using Sync Framework session with Mike Clark. The news here are the
OData-Sync protocol and Windows Azure support. Combining the OData
protocol which is AtomPub+EDM protocol with a sync protocol will enable
the Sync Framework to reach application on other platforms. Also 
Sync Framework team are working on a Silverlight integration for
offline using Sync Framework which will use in memory collections
which will be put into isolated storage on the disk. Making Silverlight
integration also means that this will work on Windows Phone 7 in the
future.

The next session I attended was Understanding the MVVM Pattern
with Laurent Bugnion. In the session I learned about the
Model-View-ViewModel pattern which is being used with Silverlight.
Laurent also explained how to use command, messages and more.

The last session was Designing and Delivering Scalable and Resilient
Web Services with Ron Jacobs. Ron talked about AppFabric cache
which was once known as Velocity. I learned a new thing – the bulk
get method. All the other stuff I already know but Ron is
a great lecturer so it was interesting. At the end of the session I
talked to Ron about some stuff such as integrating AppFabric
caching to WCF Data Services which was a question that was asked.

Here are some pictures I took in the first day: