Lots of news coming out of Mix 09….

ASP.NET MVC Released

Scott Guthrie recently posted a great (and free) tutorial from his upcoming book here. Not a whole lot of changes from RC2, but you’ll have to uninstall previous versions obviously. You can get the installer here. Note that some addins can cause problems during the install (notably Azure tools), but there’s a hotfix available for it.

Silverlight

Silverlight 3 beta announced : Getting started with Silverlight 3. Tim Heuer has a pretty detailed post regarding the new featuresLooks like there’s a ton of features in the works, new codecs (H.264, AAC,MPEG-4), improved graphics support (3D transform effects). hardware acceleration, and even standalone silverlight apps. Interestingly the download for the silverlight 3 install is smaller than the current silverlight 2 install.

.NET RIA Services

An overview can be found here. Essentially a product/framework that will ease data access for silverlight apps via asp.net. Seems analogous to Adobe’s LiveCycle Data Services

Azure

You can download the latest SDK and Visual Studio tools. On track to release this year, apparently. Some new CTP features have been added, notably FastCGI , .NET full trust., and geolocation (currently limited to two locations in the US). PHP in Azure! This is some needed good news after they suffered a day long outage over the weekend