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.