From Rich Griffin and myself at MIX:UK.
Software + services continues its momentum into MIX:UK as George Moore talks about the future, some of the conflicts of client and server and what the future holds. Consumers will push this forwards with the help of Microsoft and its partner build “Software as a Service” applications, giving people better reach across different platforms. But what does this mean? Well, Rich experiences and services that allow us to choose our platform of choice. George Moore talks about the Universal Web and putting the Experience First.
At Conchango within a compact team – UX, visual design and development, we have created a WPF application for the event. We’ve provided a rich reading experience, mashed-up with social networking sites facebook and twitter and an interactive timeline for the event schedule. Paul Dawson introduces the MIX:UK eReader.
Adventure Works - a Live Services application built entirely on live services stack. This utilises silverlight streaming and windows live id allowing users to login and have a personalised experience. A cool feature of the application – it uses MSMQ and sends them to media encoder and uploads this output to the silverlight streaming live service. Streaming video through silverlight. All source code will be up on codeplex in the next day or so.
Sentient talked about a site that is built on top of the quick apps - a web site called track me which is about tracking and collaborating with your friends. Johnathan Greensted shows us how to intergrate live contacts buddy list into the web page, a new control coming soon is the Windows Live Messenger web control. These ideas are developed from the previous Sports Do site where Live services mapped where people are during a sporting event from their last known GPS position via a Windows smart phone. Geo-coding coding also places video on the map.
Scott Guthrie talked through creating RIAs with the Silverlight Studio & Visual Studio 2008. The workflow around designers and developers and support for AJAX in Visual Studio 2008 – javascript intelli-sense for example.
Easy Jet Holidays was demoed – some neat features for the holiday lifecycle experience – an AJAX ‘scratch pad’ to save interesting holidays, hotels etc to compare later.
More on Silverlight from Scott – the plug-in that’s cross-browser, cross-platform, .NET supporting rich media and rich user experiences.
Julian A D Harris and Rich Griffin