The keynote speech was presented by Scott Guthrie and Wayne Smith. Scott talked about the two “worlds” WEB and Desktop, where on the one side we develop with asp.net and IIS and on the other side we use WPF and office gadgets. Silverlight lies between these two worlds and tries to connect them.

They also mentioned the very important issue of teamwork concerning developers and designers. The new software product Visual Studio Expression should bring here some improvements. Especially “Blend” will hopefully be the “missing link” between the design world and the developers world. By the way the product Blend was fully built in Blend.

I also attended Design in Motion: Video Production Workflow by Beau Ambur. It was mainly about the new streaming features in Silverlight and the best practices for creating streaming formats.

The Desktop and Browser Evolution by Carrie Longson was also very interesting because we saw what is possible with the new technology. The demos they showed were for the London underground, a Golf Event, a fashion show with different camera angles and the future of schools. The desktop applications were very interactive and rich of multimedia content.

The last talk I attended on this day was from Molly Holzschlag Thinking in CSS: How to Build Great Looking Sites. She did some surveys during her presentation and she was astonished from the result. For example nearly 90% of the audience were building layouts of websites with tables and hardly anybody read the specs of the new IE7.

Maybe we (europeans as she mentions it on her blog) have to improve in writing standard compliance code. Also the doctype switching  was a very helpful hint.

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