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Microsoft is Serious About Silverlight

Posted by Charles | March 2, 2008 .

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 […]

It’s about Time for Silverlight’s Turn

Posted by Charles | February 26, 2008 .

Adobe just had a big Bang with the releases of both Flex 3 and AIR 1.0. All the signs show that it’s about time for Silverlight 2.0 to give RIA another push. Could be very soon. And, according to Jesse Liberty at Silverlight.net, “Silverlight 2 is big. Very big. It’s great, but it is very […]

Think Again Before Visiting Microsoft Home Site

Posted by Charles | November 12, 2007 .

If you have have problem on your PC with Silverlight, you have to be careful when trying to visit Microsoft’s home site. It could freeze your PC and the only remedy you have will be brutally power off your machine. I have complained about the Silverlight-hangs-PC issue before. The same complains at this thread of […]

Silverlight Shines Election 2008

Posted by Charles | November 1, 2007 .

I know it will happen sooner or later, that is the mashup using Silverlight with Microsoft Virtual Earth plus other Windows web development technologies. This is only because there is a big void there in the mashup space. Here comes one, the Silverlight Presidential Election 2008 developed by Novera Consulting.
It’s all Microsoft approach, kinda […]

Silverlight still Hangs and I’m not alone

Posted by Charles | October 16, 2007 .

I wrote about newer Silverlight froze machines. The latest version of it doesn’t help. It freezes my PC from both Firefox and IE6/7. Have been searching solution but with no success. Here I found a thread of discussion at silverlight.net, where the same issue pinged back and forth. If anyone interested, follow it there and […]

Freedom gives Creativity, and Business

Posted by Charles | September 13, 2007 .

Or, creativity demands freedom. Obviously that’s how Microsoft understand when it starts opening up independent identify web sites to promote its products and image.
Business like Microsoft has established kingdom, such as web site. Consistency and standard are important to run such big shop. You can’t see any approve in the future that any trendy or […]

Silverlight 1.0 is out

Posted by Charles | September 5, 2007 .

Microsoft Silverlight Live Search Site - Good RIA

Posted by Charles | August 23, 2007 .

MLB.com goes Silverlight but try at your own risk

Posted by Charles | August 7, 2007 .

The production video contents on MLB.com are still in Flash but they are having a beta version out on Silverlight. I tried but wish I didn’t.
First, I went to the link given here. Then my computer froze. The Firefox (silverlight plugin) took 99% CPU and the machine just hang. With MLB web site page […]

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