The Continuum of Client Technologies. Scott said "We recognize there's been a lot of angst over this topic in the past few weeks. There is a Silverlight future, and we think it's going to be a very bright one". Scott also reiterated the future for UI: HTML5, Silverlight, and WPF are UI technologies we're heavily investing in. "Our goal is to provide a technology portfolio that enables developers to build the best possible user experiences." The slide below shows the technologies from reach to rich with Silverlight squarely positioned in the middle of this continuum.

Also during the keynote we saw some really impressive non-trivial Silverlight business applications. Not only did they look good, but they each had a ton of business-critical functionality all implemented in Silverlight.

Silverlight 5 itself will beta in the first half of 2011 and release by the end of the year 2011.

WCF RIA Services Toolkit December 2010

At the same time as today's keynote, we announced an update to the WCF RIA Services Toolkit. Check out Jeff Handley's post to learn more, especially about the MVVM-friendly data source: DomainCollectionView.