Category: Silverlight
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Fast Times at RIA High
What a time this is shaping up to be… We have some exciting stuff cooking here that I can’t quite talk about yet but you’ll be seeing soon enough. Scott Guthrie recently posted about a few of the things we’re doing to continue WPF’s place as the best platform for creating the best desktop experiences…
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WindowsClient.net
A white paper that I co-wrote just went live on WindowsClient.NET and is the first featured news item (for today). The paper is targeted at developers with WinForms chops who are thinking about making the jump to WPF but want to know when the right time and conditions are. I won’t give away the ending–check…
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Silverlight Apple "Staff Pick"
Pretty cool to see Silverlight as a “Staff Pick” from Apple! Apple – Downloads – Mac OS X – Development Tools Apple.com Silverlight page A tough decision most face is whether to take full advantage of a single platform or to go lowest common denominator and address multiple platforms. One of the nice things about…
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Silverlight and Expression Resources
Here’s a veritable cornucopia of resources online related to Silverlight and Expression. Thanks to the India DPE team for pulling this list together. I’d add one late-breaking item: The Expression Blend 2 September Preview. Cool stuff there! Webcasts https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-IN&EventID=1032339986&CountryCode=IN&IsRedirect=false https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-IN&EventID=1032339984&CountryCode=IN&IsRedirect=false https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-IN&EventID=1032339982&CountryCode=IN&IsRedirect=false Websites Silverlight on Microsoft.com: www.microsoft.com/silverlight Silverlight Community Site: www.silverlight.net Silverlight MSDN Developer Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/silverlight…
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Halo 3 on MSN
And while you’re checking out Silverlight, be sure to check out the Halo3 movies on MSN. The site is powered by Silverlight so enjoy the HD videos. And speaking from experience, the game is the best of the trilogy… Halo 3 on MSN
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Liftoff and Linux!
Let’s get right to the point. The rumors are true: Silverlight 1.0 has been released to the web and Microsoft is lending official support to the Linux version (named “Moonlight”) under development at Novell. We’re also releasing Expression Encoder 1.0. Good news all around and lots of fun toys for you all to play with.…
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And the Winner is…
Two award winners from our stables today. one is Silverlight which landed as one of C|Net’s best 100 Web apps, according to user voting. That’s pretty good for a product that hasn’t actually been released yet! The interest around Silverlight has really surpassed our expectations. The page mentions that Silverlight is young technology and is just getting…
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Silverlight Developer Reference Poster
Print this out in color and put it on your wall. We’re giving the full size versions out at conferences and such but I don’t have any details of how you can guarantee getting one yet. Link to poster PNG
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Microsoft Redefines RIA!
Some people were fussing last week about the latest evil scheme by Micro$oft to take over the world via the insidious renaming of the term Rich Internet Application to Rich Interactive Application. Curses! Foiled again! You got us on that one. After running all the simulations on Hal XP, we calculated that changing that one…
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Silverlight!
Hello to a clean, well-lit name and good riddance to the worst code name ever, “WPF/E”. Well, IceWeasel and Brady Bunch weren’t stellar either but at least they were easier to type. Try typing “WPF/E” five times quickly and you’ll see what I mean. Yes, the quotes have to be around it as well. In…