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WPF/E is Now Silverlight

Topics
WPF/E,
Silverlight,
WPF,
XAML,
.NET,
Web 2.0,
Programming,
Enterprise Architecture,
Rich Internet Apps

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?

Topics
WPF/E,
Java,
Flash,
Silverlight,
WPF,
Flex,
XAML,
Languages,
.NET,
Adobe,
AJAX,
Rich Client / Desktop,
Programming,
Companies,
Apollo,
Rich Internet Apps

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

Topics
WPF/E,
WPF,
Web 2.0,
.NET,
Programming,
Enterprise Architecture

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.