First session split my time between Dynamic Sharepoint && Overview of Expression Encoder V2

Essentially the Sharepoint site was overall basic.. Really not much note worthy content please keep in mind I left early I followed up with some friends in between sessions and found out the 'cool' stuff happened after I left ..

Thank goodness for http://sessions.visitmix.com/

Encoder session was fast and furious will also have to follow up on this since I missed the first part.

**Picture is Microsoft Surface demo.. Nifty!

Essentially I have a lot of really cool notes on this more to come soon.

Had my channel 9 discussion, talked about how I could see the Silverlight technology helping me with Tyson.com initiatives. When it goes live it will ultimately live here:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating

Big thanks to Michael Scherotter(Synergist) for the invite and the chance to talk about this exciting new technology! Don't think it went that well. OOHHH how I wish I could have just one more 'take'. Ohh well I will post it when it comes out ( so you all can laugh at me).

-Jeremy

Interested in Exploring Moonlight? (Novell's implementaton of Silverlight on Linux)
Check out Larurents blog/Notes on the session:
http://geekswithblogs.net/lbugnion/archive/2008/03/07/mix08-session-exploring-moonlight-novells-implementation-of-silverlight-on-linux.aspx

All the sessions all the content all the goodness. http://sessions.visitmix.com/

First order of business.
You absolutely need to check out the 2nd Keynote 1 word AMAZING. Go to the site click on KEYNOTES. It should be up no later then morning of the 7th. You will also notice all the sesions in various formats and much much more.

Blogging while watching the Creating Rich, Dynamic User Interfaces with Silverlight 2 Controls. As I sit in my 2nd session of the day I have HI hopes for it to be a "Rim Rocker". Funny note all three of my sessions yesterday recommended going to this one today. They kept talking about Karen Corby.

Bio from her site - http://scorbs.com/work
"Karen Corby: the 8 sentence bio.
Born in Pusan, S. Korea. Flown to MN to meet Mom, Dad, & (eventually) little bro. Grew up in SoCal. Nicknamed scorbs by childhood pal. Studied at Stanford. Moved to Seattle to be a PM at MS. Likes travel, reading, hiking, philosophy, photography, and gossip magazines. Loves mac & cheese."

Talked briefly with her she in short is a "Big Brain" type of person.

Main topics and Random related notes: 

• Silverlight 2 USER CONTROLS (DataGrid, Button, Textbox out of the box)I can now build a website 
• Introduction to the Parts Model
• Sliverlight 2 has brought Styles & Templates to the client
• A Silverlight "page" is a UserControl in Silver 2
• Expressions Blend (beta) doesnt handeling skinning very well. Will do better when released.
• Expressions Blend (beta) does a good job now creating Custom User Controls (this is important for look & feel)
• Property triggers will not be implemented in Silverlight 2

 Please Check out Laurent's notes on this meeting they are very detailed:
http://geekswithblogs.net/lbugnion/archive/2008/03/06/mix08-session-creating-rich-dynamic-user-interfaces-with-silverlight-2.aspx

Day 1 was unbelievable!!! Packed with announcements, partnerships and code.. code.. code.  This is a truly great experience, without question the BUZZ from day 1 is centering around three hot topics:

1. Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and the fact that this is being used TODAY by Aston Martin and Hard Rock cafe. (http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/)
2. IE 8 and the features baked into it CSS2.1, HTML 5 and WebSlices
3. Deep Zoom(Seadragon) technology built into Silverlight 2 (wow).

Chris Koenig & Scott Hanselman give a nice overview of these topics: 

• Silverlight 2 and IE 8
  http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig/archive/2008/03/06/mix-08-keynote-announcements.aspx
• Deep Zoom(Seadragon)
  http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DeepZoomSeadragonSilverlight2MultiScaleImagesAtMix.aspx
• First look at IE8 Activities and WebSlices
  http://visitmix.com/blogs/Joshua/IE8-Activities-With-Jane-Kim/

I highly recommend checking these blogs above as well as www.VisitMix.com.  For all the latest and greatest of MIX08.