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Microsoft shows in a Video how the “home of the future” might look like. Some photos of this house could be found here. Speak recognition & “NUI”s are “key features” in this house.

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I found a small article on ZDNet how a Live Mesh application might look like. There is a link to a simple "Live Mesh styled" "ToDo" App. 

The SDK, a new Live Mesh release and so on should we see at the PDC

Microsoft Research made some pretty "cool"/"wow" stuff – in many products you can find some of there research concepts/ideas/technologies (eg. Surface or Deepzoom).

Today I found an very intresting video about Photosynth on Tim Heuers Blog:

Another impressiv project is called "Unwrap Mosaics". Just have a look at the video on the project site

Great news for all Silverlight-Worker:

The next Beta of Silverlight 2 (with some really nice features) : Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (@ ScottGus Blog)

And of course a new version of Expression Blend: Blend 2.5 Version (Downloadlink)

The ASP.NET Team (see at Scotts Blog) released the 3. Preview of the MVC Framework:

• Setup MSI Download
• Sourcecode @ Codeplex

This release contains improvments of the April Code Release :

• Control Action Methods & ActionResults, useful for…
• AJAX: JsonResult
• Streaming Data: ContentResult
• Web: HttpRedirect / RedirectToAction/Route
• HTML Helper
• URL Routing & Mapping (this dll is part of the .NET 3.5 SP1 and can be used in WebForms and MVC)

Unfortunatly there are no  Sub-Controllers, a nicer AJAX integration, Authentication / Authorization (a nicer integration), Components – these features will be released in Preview 4 (or 5 )

For more information look at Scotts post…

If you are intrested in Gamedeveloping (or nice 3D anmations) you should take a look at the new CTP of the XNA Game Studio:

- Visual Studio 2008 Support (Express/Stand/Prof/…)
- .NET 3.5 Support

Here is the complete announcement from Microsoft and the download link.

TDD, Unit-Tests & XNA \o/

The ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC play (today) not very well together, thats why I searched another Javascript/Ajax Framework – jQuery seems to be very cool.

This blogpost is just a summary of my previous links on this blog.

Are there other good frameworks?

I found a very good post from Danny Douglass about these frameworks: jQuery, YUI, Prototype, Dojo, MooTools, Ext JS, and Script.aculo.us. A nice summary can you see here.

jQuery examples und tutorials?

From noupe.com:

• 51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples
• 50+ Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1

Drag`n`Drop support:

• jQuery.ui Sortable

Look at the examples at noupe.com – there are very great examples with source code. Unfortunatly I didn´t found any up-to-date-offline documentation – only a version 1.1.4 documentation pdf.

Everyone needs Plugins… jQuery has some really cool plugins:

From noupe.com:

• 45+ Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins
• 37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins

VS 2008 / ASP.NET Integration:

• (Better) JQuery IntelliSense in VS2008
• jQuery AJAX calls to a WCF REST Service
• jQuery for ASP.NET MVC preview 2

Please let me know if you know any other good jQuery ressource

Today I found a very good ASP.NET MVC resource list on  Craig Shoemakers Blog. The post is also available as podcast.

PS:  Even my Pagination User Control is in this list (and in the podcast) \o/

The "Live Mesh" was anounced on the Mix08 – a few days ago the closed beta started and Microsoft give some more information about it:

• Ten things to know about Microsoft’s Live Mesh
• nikhilk.net – Live Mesh annonced
• Introducing Live Mesh
• Live Mesh Blog
  • Introducing Video
  • Platform quick tour for developers
  • Jon Udell’s interview with Ray Ozzie
  • Overview of Live Mesh architecture
  • Overview of Live Mesh platform experience

The architecture (from the videos above) :

Real World High Scalability Applications like Amazon, eBay, MySpace – and what goes on behinde the scenes? If you want to know more have a look at this page: Build bigger, faster…

Very intresting (- and there are only 2 Windows/.NET applications. Whats wrong with .NET & Windows? )