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WPF/E is Now Silverlight

Community
.NET
Topics
Web 2.0,
Rich Internet Apps,
Silverlight

With much fanfare, Microsoft has announced Silverlight, a new cross-platform, browser independent runtime designed based on XAML and JavaScript with the potential to go head to head with Adobe Flash.

Is XML the Future of UI Development?

Community
.NET,
Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps,
Silverlight,
Rich Client / Desktop

Or is it JavaScript? A common trend in the new crop of desktop UI frameworks is that they are XML based with some sort of support for JavaScript. We take a brief look at AJAX, WPF/XAML, Flex/MXML, and Firefox’s Gran Paradiso.

WPF-E Announced

Community
.NET
Topics
Web 2.0

Yesterday Microsoft released the first community technology preview of WPF/E and Scott Guthrie announced it on his blog. WPF/E provides a small client-side runtime that currently support Windowsand Mac OSX. For browser support, WPF/E can run in both the FireFox and Safari web browsers providing support beyond the Internet Explorer browser.