Microsoft Vista & IE7 Readiness Tour
Today, I attended a Microsoft Event for Windows Vista & IE 7,
the event started at 9:30 AM with IE 7.0.
The IE 7 was devided into two parts, the first part describes what's new in IE or I can say what is stolen from FireFox, what is missing from FireFox and what is missing from (CSS, JS and HTML) standards that was added to this version, like PNG alpha transparency support.
and some features like RSS detection and parsing, Quick Tabs, Integrated Search Support and Open Search API's support.
The session was a little boring, but not bad,
The second part of IE 7 session, was some hints to developers that targets IE, like ActiveX support, Ajax, IE6 bugs workarounds that no longer work, Css Hacks and all these stuff.
Then the next part of the conference was Windows Vista, and it went pretty much like the IE part, it was divided into two sessions, the first session was the most important 10 things about Windows Vista and some demo's inside windows Vista which was really cool to see the fading effects and glassy look as well as aero UI, and I have to note that the Laptop that the speaker was working on is a really good, because Windows Vista RC1 was working really great with all the graphics options enabled and it was really faster than my XP pro at home.
even when she started the next part of presentation and used Visual Studio it was working well and the startup-close and building time was really fast,
also some cool security features like User Access Control (UAC) was discussed and how to use it in your applications, as well as Restart Manager.
but actually what made me upset that most of the UI capabilities and Security stuff don't have good managed support, and you have to use PInvoke or COM Interop and in some cases you have to write some resource script & Manifest files which is really Odd, and I hope that this will be solved when Visual Studio (ORCAS) releases, but I expect to find some open source & third party components that we can plug-it into our app's
So that's as far as I remember which is not enough, but I think I'll attach the presentations soon so keep in touch.
and if you want to check some pictures from the tour check it here
http://bashmohandes.spaces.live.com/photos/UPDATED:
The Material Of The Conference HERE