Here’s a quick rundown of the items covered during the initial Mix09 keynote. View keynote.

General

SuperPreview

Beta available today.

Allows you to compare the rendering of a web page in different browsers. Supports both local installations of browsers and a cloud-based service to render in other browsers.

Read more on the Expression Blog.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0

Shipping today.

http://www.asp.net/mvc/

http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet

ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010

Even better IDE for C#/VB and web developers.

Web Platform Installer

http://www.microsoft.com/web/

Version 2.0 beta available today. Now allows web applications to be installed along with any dependencies.

Azure

• FastCGI/PHP and .NET full trust
• SQL Data Services
• .NET Services

Commercial release this year.

Silverlight 3

Two surprises from left-field: Out of Browser and Multitouch support!

Current Numbers

• 350+ million installations
• 300,000 Developers & Designers
• 200+ partners worldwide
• 200+ Microsoft Products and Websites
• 10,000’s of apps globally

Silverlight 3 Media Enhancement

• GPU hardware acceleration
• New codec support (H.264, AAC, MPEG-4)
• Raw bitstream Audio/Video API, use .NET to access stream data
• Improved logging for media analytics

IIS Media Services

• Free for IIS
• On-demand smooth streaming
• Live smooth streaming
• Edge caching
• Web playlists
• Bit-rate throttling
• Advanced logging

Silverlight 3 Graphics

• GPU acceleration and hardware compositing
• Perspective 3D
• Bitmap & pixel API
• Pixel shader effects
• Deep Zoom improvements

Application Development

• Deep linking, navigation and SEO
• Improved text quality (ClearType)
• Multi-touch support
• 100+ controls available
• Library caching support (finally! Like a Global Assembly Cache for Silverlight)
• Eclipse Support for Silverlight (on the Mac)

Silverlight 3 Data

• Data-binding improvements
• Validation error templates
• Server data push improvements
• Binary XML networking support
• Multi-Tier REST data support

Out of Browser

Run Silverlight applications on the desktop for both Windows and Mac.

• Extend media experiences
• Companion applications for your website
• Lightweight data snacking applications
• Simple consumer friendly experience
• Safe, secure, sandboxed environment
• Built-in auto-update support
• Build offline-aware applications
• Integrate with underlying operating systems

Download Size

Total size: ~4.4MB. 40k smaller than Silverlight 2!

• Thousands of new APIs
• Hundreds of new features
• New codecs
• Out of browser support

SHIP DATE

• Single beta planned
• Ship later this year
• Silverlight 3 Beta
• Expression Blend 3 Preview
• Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008
• IIS Media Services

Expression Blend 3

Be sure to watch the keynote by Bill Buxton. Great energy and view on design.

View keynote

View Interview

http://www.billbuxton.com/

• SketchFlow
  • Flow diagram for different parts of an application.
  • “Wiggly” controls. Working controls that look like conceptual prototypes.
  • Free viewer application to view “sketches”.
  • Supports multiple options.
  • Supports displaying transitions with animations.
  • Supports giving feedback. Notes and drawing on the sketches directly. Send to Blend and view in context.
  • Export to Word to auto-generate documents for clients.
• Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator import
• Behaviors
• Designing with data
• Source code controls
• XAML, C# and VB code Intellisense