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Silverlight 4’s COM+ Automation Raises Security and Portability Concerns
Silverlight 4 supports COM+ Automation when running as an Out-Of-Browser (OOB) application with elevated privileges. Microsoft indicated that this support is a result of enterprise customers requesting such a feature, offering as an example Office automation from Silverlight.
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Adobe Apologizes for Long Lasting Flash Crash Bug
Emmy Huang Product Manager for Adobe Flash Player has apologized publicly about a Flash bug that resulted in browser crash, that although has been reported 17 months ago, no patch has been released for the production version of Flash player yet.
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Debate: Microsoft’s RIA Services Code-generating Tools and Sound Architectural Principles
Some developers consider that Microsoft's RIA Services code-generating tools are teaching bad architectural principles to developers while others consider the tools useful if used properly.
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The State of Flex RIA Development Ecosystem
Flex 1.0 was released in March 2004. Since then, the Flex based RIA development has been increasingly gaining momentum; and RIA has become a well accepted web application development approach. To assess the state of Adobe Flex, InfoQ reviewed the current Flex RIA development ecosystem.
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Sun Releases Early Access Version of RAD Tool for JavaFX
Sun has released an early preview of one of the two RAD tools it is building for JavaFX through the NetBeans update centre. JavaFX is also seeing some more high profile early adopters including the 2010 Winter Olympics website.
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Moonlight 2.0 Comes with a New Covenant
Moonlight 2.0 (final version) comes with a promise from Microsoft to help the developing of Moonlight 3 and 4, and a new MS Covenant to end users protecting them from patent infringement by using Moonlight.
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Google Has Stopped Developing Gears
Google seems to be no longer interested in further developing Gears, promoting HTML 5 instead.
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IE and Firefox Will Be Using DirectX for Rendering
Both IE and Mozilla teams are currently working on using DirectX/GPU for page rendering while Google is considering it.
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Silverlight 4 Developer Beta Is Packed with New Features
Microsoft has announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Developer Beta at PDC 2009 only months after the previous release, Silverlight 3. There are numerous new features: a comprehensive set of controls (over 60), one code both for the desktop and Silverlight sandbox, MEF support, a fully editable design surface, full Intellisense, better audio-video support, better performance and many more.
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Beta Versions of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 Released
Adobe Systems has announced the availability of beta versions of Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0, which can be downloaded from the Adobe Labs site.
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WPF vs. Silverlight – What Really is the Difference?
As both WPF and Silverlight increase in importance, the confusion about the difference between the two has also increased. Back in June Wintellect released an incredibly important whitepaper on the topic titled "Microsoft WPF-Silverlight Comparison Whitepaper". While we recommend developers read all of it, we offer you a summary of the major ones that impact line-of-business developers.
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Adobe Max Day One Wrap-Up
On day one of Max, Adobe announced the upcoming availability of the Flash platform on a number of mobile devices. The availability of Flash on a wide range of devices is an important step forward for the Flash / Flex developer community.
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GWT 2.0 Milestone 1 Released
The Google Web Toolkit team has announced the release of milestone 1 of the new version of GWT. This version includes several new features and bug fixes.
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Silverlight 3 is Bringing Multi-Touch to the Web
Using Silverlight 3, web developers can offer multi-touch applications to their Windows 7 users.
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Opensource ActionScript Debugger - De Monster
InfoQ reported a Flash and AIR debugger Arthropod earlier this year. De MonsterDebugger is another debugger launched this year for Flash, Flex and AIR application development.