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  • Flash is Dominating the Landscape, but Silverlight is Growing

    A RIA statistics page is publishing the numbers of browsers having RIA plug-ins installed on a daily basis. The RIA space today is occupied by Flash but Silverlight is catching up.

    Abel Avram
    on Mar 10, 2009

  • A Workflow-as-a-Service Platform using SilverLight

    SnapFlow is the latest Workflow-as-a-Service platform to launch. Gopinath Dhanakodi, VP of Engineering, explains his technical choices while Samad Wahedi comments on why they decided not to use BPM standards as they aim at providing workflow for the masses.

    Jean-Jacques Dubray
    on Mar 05, 2009

  • Looking inside Silverlight XAP Files, and Making Them Smaller

    Silverlight makes it easy to accidentally deploy far more code than what’s needed for an application. ComponentOne’s XapOptimizer makes it easy to fix that.

    Jonathan Allen
    on Mar 04, 2009

  • Virtual Panel: The Current and Future State of RIA

    InfoQ recently conducted a virtual panel on the current and future state of RIA and Ajax technologies. The panel features a number of valued contributors to the community including Dion Almaer, Jnan Dash, Didier Girard, Peter Pilgrim, Tim Sneath, and Ryan Stewart.

    Scott Delap
    on Feb 26, 2009

  • PRISM 2 Supports Silverlight

    Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0, a.k.a. PRISM 2, has been released on Microsoft Downloads. This release offers guidance for building Silverlight client applications as well as guidance for reusing code between WPF applications and Silverlight ones.

    Abel Avram
    on Feb 19, 2009

  • Scott Guthrie on Web Technologies During MIX 09

    In an interview held by Channel 9, Scott Guthrie talks about MIX 2009, Silverlight 3, upcoming VS 2010 Tools for Silverlight, and Expression.

    Abel Avram
    on Feb 17, 2009

  • Moonlight 1.0 RTM Has Been Released

    Moonlight, the open source Silverlight implementation for Linux, has been sent to manufacturing. It can be downloaded as a Firefox plug-in running on most Linux distributions. Moonlight 1.0 uses Microsoft Media Pack 2 to play the media files.

    Abel Avram
    on Feb 12, 2009

  • Silverlight 3 at Mix09

    Microsoft will unveil Silverlight 3 at the Mix09 conference. Sessions will cover the improved graphics processing, media enhancements, and application development improvements in Silverlight 3.

    Al Tenhundfeld
    on Feb 01, 2009

  • An MD5 Implementation for Silverlight

    An implementation of the MD5 cryptographic hashing algorithm for Silverlight has been posted on MSDN by Reid Borsuk. Delay, another MSDN user, has recently posted ComputeFileHashes, a small .NET command-line application that also works on WPF and Silverlight and is helpful to compute MD5, SHA-1, and CRC-32 hashes.

    Abel Avram
    on Jan 29, 2009

  • Silverlight 2 Source Code and Toolkit Are Available

    Microsoft has published the source code and unit tests for the managed Silverlight 2 controls included in System.Windows.dll, System.Windows.Controls.dll, and System.Windows.Controls.Data.dll. Also, the Silverlight Toolkit was made available on CodePlex.

    Abel Avram
    on Jan 08, 2009

  • DeepEarth, a Mapping Control Using Silverlight

    DeepEarth is a mapping control combining Microsoft’s Virtual Earth with Silverlight 2.0. The open source project was released on CodePlex by its creators, a team of .NET enthusiasts.

    Abel Avram
    on Dec 26, 2008

  • Presentation: Building Rich Internet Applications in Silverlight 2

    Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in and runtime for building rich internet applications. Mike Taulty walks through Silverlight basics such as the XAML UI Model and progresses to building applications with both Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio.

    James Vastbinder
    on Dec 05, 2008

  • Silverlight for Linux: Moonlight 1.0 Beta 1 Is Available for Download

    Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight targeted at Linux and Unix/X11 systems. Moonlight has been developed under the Mono project since September 2007 and is sponsored by Novell. Moonlight 1.0 Beta 1 has been released to the general public.

    Abel Avram
    on Dec 04, 2008

  • Reporter's Notebook: What I learned from PDC

    The watch-word isn't "cloud computing" or "scalability", it's trust. For all the cool stuff surrounding Windows Azure, literally no one on the floor was talking about actually using it. Even for products that can be partially hosted in-house like Mesh people are saying "Cool, but I can never use it".

    Jonathan Allen
    on Nov 05, 2008

  • Interview: John Lam on IronRuby, Microsoft and Open Source

    In this interview from RubyFringe, John Lam talks about his work on IronRuby and how Microsoft is approaching Open Source software development.

    Werner Schuster
    on Nov 02, 2008
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