Совсем скоро 12 апреля в 09-00 в Лас-Вегасе (20-00 по Москве) начнется крупнейшая конференция MIX посвященная мобильным технологиям и веб-разработке, которую проводит Microsoft. На конференции будет представлено 125 технических докладов на самые разнообразные темы: ASP.NET, HTML5, UX, CSS3, Silverlight, Windows Phone, веб-стандарты, Windows Azure, JavaScript, инструменты разработки и многое другое. Из них 47 докладов будет прочитано сторонними экспертами и приглашенными докладчиками.

Совершенно достоверно известно, что на MIX’11 будет представлена новая версия Silverlight 5 Beta с большим количеством нововведений.

Ниже я постарался выделить интересные доклады по категориям.

ASP.NET

• Agile .NET Cloud-Deployment with Git;
• Facebook Development in .NET;
• Fun with ASP.NET MVC 3 and MEF;
• рекомендую доклад Скотта Хансельмана: An Overview of the MS Web Stack of Love;
• рекомендую доклад Фила Хаака: ASP.NET MVC 3 @-The Time is Now;
• Bigger, Faster, Stronger- Optimizing ASP.NET Applications;
• рекомендую доклад про Orchard CMS: Deconstructing Orchard- Build, Customize, Extend, Ship;
• Knockout JS- Helping you build dynamic JavaScript UIs with MVVM and ASP.NET;
• Pragmatic JavaScript, jQuery & AJAX with ASP.NET;
• рекомендую доклад про будущее WebForms: Web Forms- Reports of my Death are Greatly Exaggerated;
• Sharpen Your Web Development Skills with Razor and Umbraco CMS;
• Walking the Razor’s Edge with DotNetNuke;
• Scaffolding – ASP.NET, NuGet, Entity Framework Code First and More;
• WCF Web APis- There's a URI for That;

HTML5 и веб-стандарты

• рекомендую The Future of HTML5;
• Design, Content, Code- Start-to-Finish;
• рекомендую: HTML5 Canvas Mastery;
• рекомендую: Deep Dive Into HTML5 canvas;
• CSS3 Takes on the World;
• рекомендую: Hot from the Labs- HTML5 WebSockets;
• Riding the Geolocation Wave;
• Modernizing Your Website- SVG Meets HTML5;
• рекомендую доклад про использование CSS3/HTML5 в SharePoint: Designing Great Experiences for SharePoint 2010;
• Designer and Developer- A Case for the Hybrid;
• 5 Things You Need To Know To Start Using video and audio Today;
• рекомендую: 50 Performance Tricks to Make Your HTML5 Web Sites Faster;
• Data in an HTML5 World;
• HTML5 for Silverlight Developers;
• The Devil Went Down to HTTP- Debugging with Fiddler;
• The View of the World Depends on the Glasses I Wear;
• Is that a Sherpa on Your Shoulder-;
• Building Adaptive HTML5 Applications;
• Filling the HTML5 Gaps with Polyfills and Shims;
• Hacking with the F12 Developer Tools;
• HTML5 for Skeptics;
• Microformats and Semantic Markup;
• Making Better Web Apps For Today's Browsers;
• What Exactly Are We Doing on the Web-;

JavaScript

• Good JavaScript Habits for C# Developers;
• Script#- Compiling C# to JavaScript using Visual Studio;
• ECMAScript 5- The New Parts;
• Writing Maintainable JavaScript;
• JavaScript- The Language;

Windows Azure

• рекоменудую: What’s New in the Windows Azure Platform;
• Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform;
• 10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Windows Azure;
• Deliver Content Fast with the Windows Azure CDN;
• Mashing Up Data On the Web and Windows Phone with Windows Azure DataMarket;
• Windows Azure from Startup to Scale;
• Developing iPhone and iPad Apps that Leverage Windows Azure;
• Windows Azure Storage- Getting Started and Best Practices;
• Build Fast Web Applications with Windows Azure AppFabric Caching;
• Powering Data On the Web and Beyond with SQL Azure;
• рекомендую мини-доклад про Umbraco CMS и Azure: Life in the Fast Lane- Rapidly Deploy Umbraco CMS on Windows Azure;
• DotNetNuke and Azure- Taking Your Business to the Cloud;
• Identity Unraveled with the Access Control Service;
• A Soccer Team in the Clouds- Social Gaming Running in Windows Azure;

Open Source

• NuGet In Depth- Empowering Open Source on the .NET Platform;
• рекомендую: Mono- State of the Union;
• рекомендую: Node.js, Ruby, and Python in Windows Azure- A Look at What’s Possible;
• OData Roadmap- Exposing Any Data Source as an OData service;
• OData in Action- Connecting Any Data Source to Any Device;
• OData Roadmap- Services Powering Next Generation Experiences;
• Building Data-centric N-tier Applications with jQuery;
• Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS);
• Rx- A Library for Managing Asynchronous Data and Events in your Windows Phone 7 Application;

Windows Phone 7/XNA

• целый ряд сессий с закрытыми пока темами (TBA), на которых расскажут про будущие технологии Windows Phone;
• Going Mobile with Your Site on Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Phone 7;
• XNA Game Studio for Fun, Profit, Danger, Excitement and Windows Phone 7 Games;
• рекомендую: Analyzing and Improving Windows Phone Application Performance;
• Flickr API- Tap Into Billions of Photos for Windows Phone 7;
• XNA Game Studio for Fun, Profit, Danger, Excitement and Windows Phone 7 Games;
• All Thumbs- Redesigning an Existing UI to Suit Windows Phone 7;
• Deep Dive MVVM;
• The Tale of Two Apps- Making a Splash in the Windows Phone Marketplace;
• Who Would Pay For That Feature- Adding Analytics to Your Windows Phone 7 Applications;
• Building Windows Phone 7 Applications with the Windows Azure Platform;
• Creating Windows Phone Applications Using Expression Blend;
• Making Money with your Application on Windows Phone;

Silverlight/MVVM/Media

• рекомендую: Advanced Features in Silverlight 5;
• рекомендую: Graphics & 3D with Silverlight 5;
• MMP Player Framework- Past, Present, Future
• Deep Dive MVVM;
• Effective Validation Techniques with MVVM in Silverlight;
• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5;
• Behind the Scenes of Channel 9 Live at MIX;
• рекомендую: Introducing Microsoft Media Platform (MMP);
• Introducing MMP Content Manager;
• Introducing MMP Audience Insight;
• MMP Video Editor;
• MMP Player Framework- Past, Present, Future;
• DIVA - The Future of Live Sports Consumption on the Web;
• Tips for Improving Performance in Applications Built with Silverlight;

UX/NUI

• Audio for Kinect- From Idea to Xbox, Play!;
• Get Real! Sketch, Prototype, and Capture Great Ideas with Expression Blend and SketchFlow;
• New Technologies for Immersive Content Creation;
• The Microsoft Surface MVPs Present- Natural User Interfaces, Today and Tomorrow; An Interactive;
• A Whole NUI World- Microsoft Surface 2 and Windows Touch;
• Crafty UX - UX Lightning Series;
• Inspiring UX - UX Lightning Series;
• Mind Bending UX - UX Lightning Series;
• рекомендую: Fonts, Form and Function- A Primer on Digital Typography;
• Designing Infographics for Web Applications;
• The Cross-Channel Experience;
• Application Design for Windows Phone;
• Back to Square One;
• Adding the Awesomesauce Flavor with Internet Explorer 9 Pinned Sites;