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View Source for Silverlight
Ernie Booth has released a plug-in for Reflector that allows users to view the decompiled source for Silverlight applications.
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ASP.NET Futures to Include Support for Ruby?
The Microsoft website ASP.NET has released the May 2007 edition of ASP.NET Futures. This release demonstrates potential features for post-Orcas versions of ASP.NET including Sivlerlight controls and dynamic language support.
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Silverlight to Support Multiple CLRs in One Process
A long standing problem with Microsoft's implementation of the CLR is that only one can be loaded into a process at a time. With Silverlight, that will no longer be a problem.
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More Changes for VB on Silverlight
Silverlight is bringing a lot of changes to VB, including cross-platform support. While much of VB is going to be available in Silverlight, including VB's collection of legacy functions and LINQ, not everything will be available moving forward.
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Introducing Visual Basic 10
With VB 9 slated to be released sometime this year, Microsoft is already talking about VB 10, also known as VBx. Key features include dynamic code generation like that you would expect in Lisp, Ruby, or Python. This opens up VB.Net for both Silverlight and Office.
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Silverlight's New Security Model
Sliverlight 1.1 is introducing a new security model for the CLR that replaces CAS.
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WPF/E is Now 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.
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Is XML the Future of UI Development?
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.