{"id":653,"date":"2008-06-03T14:23:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2008-06-03T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T13:23:37","slug":"tech-ed-news-silverlight-goes-live-more-oslo-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/653-tech-ed-news-silverlight-goes-live-more-oslo-hype.html","title":{"rendered":"Tech Ed news: Silverlight 2.0 goes live, more Oslo hype"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not at Tech Ed in Orlando, but was ready to watch the Bill Gates keynote which this web site<\/a> tells me starts at 8.30am Eastern – trouble is, that was 45 minutes ago, and the webcast still just plays a pretty tune and then stops. Not a great way to showcase Silverlight live streaming.<\/p>\n

Fortunately the press release<\/a> has gone up. Gates has announced Silverlight 2 beta 2 (this is the one with .NET runtime included), complete with a Go Live license. Microsoft has also released Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview and Microsoft Silverlight Tools beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008, so we should be all set to code and go.<\/p>\n

Other highlights: IE 8 Beta 2 in August, new preview code of project “Velocity” for caching high-scale apps, and more hype for Oslo, Microsoft’s “unified modeling platform”:<\/p>\n

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Oslo will include visual modeling and composition tools, a foundational repository built on SQL Server 2008 for managing application metadata, and a new, declarative modeling language to enable interoperability of models between tools and domain-specific modeling notations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don’t doubt that Microsoft is serious about Oslo; others at Microsoft has confirmed that this is a major initiative. However, I am naturally sceptical about whether Oslo will achieve its goals. Most other grand model-driven development products have failed; why will this be different?<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: oslo<\/a>, microsoft<\/a>, tech ed<\/a>, silverlight<\/a>, bill gates<\/a>, ie 8<\/a>, visual studio<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not at Tech Ed in Orlando, but was ready to watch the Bill Gates keynote which this web site tells me starts at 8.30am Eastern – trouble is, that was 45 minutes ago, and the webcast still just plays a pretty tune and then stops. Not a great way to showcase Silverlight live streaming. … Continue reading Tech Ed news: Silverlight 2.0 goes live, more Oslo hype<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,77,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-silverlight","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}