Optimize the Indirect Silverlight Installation
One of the most important things to consider when you use Silverlight in your web sites or your applications is to ensure that Silverlight gets installed appropriately on your end user’s computer. This will ensure that your end user has a good experience and can make the most of your applications. So, here is something […]
How to Build a Silverlight Application using Blend
Well… another day and another challenge… though this time, it was not I who faced the challenge but a younger colleague of mine (the change felt good; it’s usually me who goes around asking for help with all this new technology!). He wanted to create a Silverlight application in MS Expression Blend. So, we set […]
Silverlight 2.0 + Flickr + Virtual Earth
I wrote a post on InsideRIA on the mashup of Flickr and Virtual Earth using Silverlight 2.0. What this Silverlight application does is simple. It allows you search Flickr by entering a tag. The result (GeoRSS feed) will be displayed in a thumbnail image slider. You can click a thumbnail image, then the location will […]
Silverlight 2.0 Beta Out, Not Good Enough
Microsoft released Silverlight 2.0 beta at MIX08. You can get it from here. For developers want to give it a spin, go download Silverlight tools for VS2008, which provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic. Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 includes:
Visual Basic and C# Project […]
100 More Silverlight Showcases
We love Flex better. But doesn’t mean we should stick our heads into sand. Do you want to know how close (if ever) Silverlight is running behind Flex? I do think the RIA world is big enough to have more players and our love can spread out a bit more too.
Going over the demos is […]
Microsoft is Serious About Silverlight
The whole WPF and Silverlight thing is getting more and more serious. Even though Microsoft indeed took a short cut to roll out Silverlight (Flash/Flex showed the path, after many years of evolution), look at the RIA in general, we can’t discount Silverlight anymore. The WPF, Silverlight 2.0 and Expression Blend together will put a […]
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