MIX is a gathering of developers, designers, UX experts and business
professionals creating the most innovative and profitable consumer sites
on the web. Sessions range from technical, code-based topics to expert
advice on content strategy, usability and design.
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Building a Real World WPF Application: The North Face In-Store Explorer
The North Face hired Fluid, a pioneer in online retail customer experience, to develop a retail kiosk using the rich media, animation and 3-D capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation. This session walks through how the application was built, discussing design decisions and performance optimizing...
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The Digital Home: Developing Services and Applications for Media Center
Media Center for Windows Vista gives you new ways of delivering compelling entertainment to the Digital Home. In this technical session, learn how to create rich, engaging content and services for the home, using DHTML, Windows Presentation Foundation, and the new Windows Media Center Presentation Layer....
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Wiring the Web
A few weeks ago Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie unveiled a concept called Live Clipboard, at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. The main idea behind the concept is to provide for the web what the clipboard does today for desktop applications. In this session, Matt Augustine and...
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Building AJAX Applications Using Yahoo! Web Services
Yahoo! is opening up to developers using Web services. Today our services enable developers to access Yahoo! properties as diverse as Web search, maps, Flickr, comparison shopping, and many more -- and we're making more available all the time. In this session you'll learn how you can incorporate Yahoo!...
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Making Your Site Look Great in IE7
In this session, learn how to build and maintain standards-based sites that work great in IE7. Learn how to take advantage of new capabilties such as better HTML and CSS standards support, RSS and Search integration, and new security features.
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Powering E-Commerce with PayPal
The Commerce Starter Kit for ASP.NET 2.0 is a free, open source application built from the ground up on ASP.NET 2.0. It includes a storefront, shopping cart, order management system and many other features required to sell products online. It comes pre-integrated with PayPal Pro and can be extended to...
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Running a Megasite on Microsoft Technologies
MySpace and Microsoft.com are two of the most-visited Web sites on the planet. Come to this session to hear about lessons learned using Microsoft technologies to run Web applications on a massive scale. Representatives from Microsoft.com talk about lessons learned using an all-Microsoft datacenter. Representatives...
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Better Design Built Faster: Using New UI Technologies to Speed Development
Achieving complete separation between visual design, content, and logic has long been the Holy Grail of the Web design world. By keeping these separate layers loosely-coupled, they can be developed and changed independently of one another, resulting in faster, more parallel development and more manageable...
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Expression Web Designer Overview
Come see a detailed tour of Microsoft's powerful new standards-based tool for Web designers. Get the inside scoop from an Expression Web Designer product team expert and join leading designer Lynda Wienman (founder of lynda.com and FlashForward) in a tour that shows how Expression Web Designer is the...
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Designing a Better User Experience with AJAX and "Atlas"
This session explores best practices for designers who are tackling the real challenges of building AJAX-style user experiences on the Web. Learn about designing richer user experiences directly from the Windows Live Local and "Atlas" development teams. Explore how the "Atlas" controls and components...