Rounding Up Last Week
Flex 3 won InfoWorld’s Bossie (Best of Open Source Software Award) as the developer tool for RIAs. Congratulations and many thanks to all Flex developers. Interested folks can contribute in various ways to the Flex Open Source Project.
Catalonia has Olimpics.cat, China has CCTV, but sports fans of USA don’t need to feel left out anymore. […]
Adobe or Microsoft?
RIA technologies over the past few years have been getting increasingly competitive, thereby introducing more and more features much to our delight.
Yesterday, it was announced that the increasingly popular online game Line Rider would be migrating from Flash to Silverlight. A very encouraging announcement for Silverlight. This could influence other game developers in the world.
And […]
Trend Check on Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX
It’s almost half way into 2008. I think it’s about time to have a reality check on what’s going on in RIA space. Specifically, what’s up with Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight and Sun JavaFX, the so called RIA trio.
I believe what people want and look for show the best way to measure the trend. That’s […]
Upgrade Silverlight to Work with Firefox 3
Today is the day we have all been waiting for; Firefox 3 is finally here! There is only one little problem and fortunately it is easily fixed. The forthcoming Firefox 3 release will break some Silverlight 1.0 installation experience on web sites that used the original Silverlight 1.0 SDK Silverlight.js file.
Fortunately Microsoft has anticipated this […]
Look into the Silverlight!
If you’ve visited the Microsoft web site in the past couple of months then you will probably already know about Silverlight. Just in case you’re not aware what it is, it’s Microsoft’s answer for Flash. It is a very powerful framework which enables developers to create Rich Internet applications (RIA’s).
Silverlight is still in Beta testing, […]
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 […]
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