Came across a very useful catalog of user experience (UX) design patterns called Quince. It's provided by Infragistics and the catalog itself is a really well done Silverlight application. It allows you to group UX patterns in unique ways that make it easier to find what you're looking for or to discover new patterns you could be using. The Wireframe and User Task views are particularly interesting. When selected, each pattern has a description that explains when it should be used and why. Best of all, each pattern has several real life examples you can scroll through. I think this will be a great repository for when I need some functional UI inspiration.

http://quince.infragistics.com

I didn't go to MIX, but I did read a few blog posts of people who did. Definately need to dive deeper this weekend. Here is my quick overview of what was announced/released...

DLR

• Dynamic Language Runtime
• Lets your .net code iteract with dynamic languages like Ruby, Python, Javascript
• Lets those languages interact with your .net code! Neat!
  

CLR on a Mac

• A browser plug-in that will run .net 3.x apps
• OSX Only
• Intel based Macs only?
• Safari, Firefox, IE
• Subset of the BCL
• Rewritten CLR
  

Silverlight

• Lots of classes to make working with media easier.
• 720p

Some links for further review...
http://www.silverlight.net/
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

Wanna try it?
Get the plug-in. - Quick install. No need to restart computer, but you will have to restart the browser. Definately works in FireFox.
Go to http://silverlight.net/fox/