Scott Guthrie On Silverlight, MIX09, Keynotes, Developers and Designers

Posted By: Charles | Jan 28th, 2009 @ 9:00 AM | 72,252 Views | 15 Comments
It's always fun to talk to Scott Guthrie, VP of all things .NET and one of Microsoft's most prolific technical bloggers (he actually writes all of the entries on his blog which is quite a feat given his schedule and time constraints as a corporate Vice President). Many of you have seen his keynotes over the years, which are always among the most popular and highest rated by conference attendees. It's no surprise that he will again headline at MIX this year. Wonder what he'll be talking about? We discuss this here (and he addresses what it's like to speak in front of a large audience - for people who know Scott, he's actually kind of shy. How nervous is he, anyway, when he steps on to the grand stage?). We also touch on Silverlight 3, the next iteration of the media streaming and web client managed platform Scott and team create. But we step back, too. How is Silverlight doing out there, anyway? Both developers and designers use the tools that Scott and team create. How's the Scott's vision of the developer-designer workflow working in reality?

Tune in. This is another insightful conversation with one of Microsoft's best.
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#Jan 28th, 2009 @ 9:14 AM
briankel
briankel
Did Scott just come from a wedding? I've never seen him so dressed up!
#Jan 28th, 2009 @ 9:22 AM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
Smiley I was struck by that too. I should have asked him! I do know that he came from "a briefing". That may explain it...
C
#Jan 28th, 2009 @ 10:07 AM
aL_
aL_
Rx ftw
yay i love scott Big Smile
cant wait to watch this one Smiley gpu accel in sl3 will be awsome Smiley here's hoping for a TPL/linq-to-gpu announcement at mix Big Smile

-post watch-

ooo im definitly looking forward to those coding sessions, both with scott and others Smiley i really missed that at pdc i gotta say :/ i mean i loved pdc but i did miss sessions with scott and i think the coding sessions were a little sparse Smiley

i know its a bit of a long shot but will there be any hints before mix about the tpl/paralellism stuff?  its been a while sice we heard something from joe duffy and the guys Smiley
#Jan 28th, 2009 @ 2:27 PM
foreachdev
foreachdev
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What I find more interesting is it is not a Red Polo. At PDC, and Mix for two years he has worn the same shirt or least the same shade of red. Wonder if it is his lucky keynote shirt?Smiley
#Jan 28th, 2009 @ 4:46 PM
Vitor Canova
Vitor Canova
Scott always talk about new thinks and always use new tools like a Sayajin. Go Scott, Go, Go, Go.
#Jan 29th, 2009 @ 1:50 AM
stormideas
stormideas
stormideas - expertly crafted web applications
Can't wait to see what's coming in Silverlight 3 - we spend plenty of our time working on forms over data style applications and anything that can make this more efficient will be welcomed.

Between Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC we feel much more comfortable with working with the Microsoft stack for web development!

We've written a full Silverlight 2 RIA for collaboration called colaab, check it out at:

http://www.colaab.com

Thanks,

Bob

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#Jan 29th, 2009 @ 7:55 AM
Ben Hayat
Ben Hayat
Hey Charles, as always you ask great questions. You asked Scott how Silverlight is doing and as someone who has been involved with it since version 1.0, as far as I'm concerned, the real Silverlight started as of version 2.0 which is based on .Net and managed code. Even though, Silverlight 2 does not have a Data Access framework built into it, I've seen lots of innovative applications using WCF and Astoria to do their LoB applications. It has also opened the door for graphics and gaming. So, for the time that it has been out, I think it has done great, but I feel the real Silverlight will begin starting version 3. The Silverlight team is one of the most amazing, friendly, enthusiastic and willing to work with developers that I have seen. You will see new enterprise business applications starting to show up pretty soon and I'm sure Silverlight will be very successful.

..Ben
#Jan 31st, 2009 @ 3:42 AM
tivadj
tivadj

Will Task Parallel Library be available as part of SilverLight #? base library?
#Jan 31st, 2009 @ 4:33 AM
Mike90
Mike90
We would like to see DataSet in SilverLight 3.  We are heavily dependent on DataSet and without it we cannot integrate our application with the SilverLight and so cannot implement it.
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