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Is Google Wave Going to Have an Impact on RIA/Silverlight?
The recently announced Google Wave platform, which is promoting HTML 5, is believed by some to have a major impact on RIA, including Silverlight, while others consider that Wave is actually a competitor for Microsoft’s SharePoint and Exchange rather than RIA. It's poll time.
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Gizmox Releases Visual WebGui 6.4 Preview Version
Gizmox announces the release of a free preview version of its Visual WebGui, version 6.4, product. VWG promises a point-and-click tool for RIA development (DHTML or Silverlight) that requires no HTML, CSS, or XAML coding; and that can be integrated with Photoshop, Expression Blend, and Flash CS.
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New York Times Dropping WPF/Silverlight for Adobe AIR
In a rather unexpected turn of events, Microsoft’s WPF and Silverlight platforms have lost another early adopter. Back in 2006 the NY Times was a headliner for WPF. Now it is being dropped in favor of Adobe AIR.
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REST, Silverlight, and the New York Times
In a effort to remain relevant in the increasingly difficult news industry, the New York Times has built a REST-based API through the Times Developer Network. To complement this they also teamed up with Microsoft to provide a Silverlight-based toolkit for developers.
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Running Silverlight and Any Other Windows Application in a Sandbox
Xenocode, an application virtualization company, has recently added support for Silverlight allowing companies to publish Silverlight applications in a sandbox without needing a runtime to be installed. Actually, any Windows application can run in the same manner regardless to the browser or underlying operating system.
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Silverlight Has Lost an Important Customer
Yesterday, the MLB 2009 season started being broadcasted live on the Internet by MLB.TV using Flash instead of Silverlight. After one year of using Silverlight, MLB switched back to Flash due to problems plaguing Microsoft’s player.
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Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK
AgDLR, the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK, has a new release available. AgDLR provides a bridge between Silverlight and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). This allows Silverlight applications to be written in IronPython, IronRuby, or any other dynamic language running on the DLR.
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Silverlight Provides an Out-of-Browser Experience
Silverlight 3 Beta has been announced during keynotes at MIX09. Among other features, Silverlight 3 applications will be able to run outside the browser as desktop applications without an additional plug-in or runtime.
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MIX 09: Microsoft Announces SilverLight 3, Expression 3, ASP.Net 4, Web-PI, Web Galery and More
In a breath taking keynote, Microsoft announced its new wave of technologies addressing the needs of Web, Media and RIA development. Bill Buxton and Scott Guthrie demonstrated the new features that bring user experience and productivity to a new level.
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Flash is Dominating the Landscape, but Silverlight is Growing
A RIA statistics page is publishing the numbers of browsers having RIA plug-ins installed on a daily basis. The RIA space today is occupied by Flash but Silverlight is catching up.
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A Workflow-as-a-Service Platform using SilverLight
SnapFlow is the latest Workflow-as-a-Service platform to launch. Gopinath Dhanakodi, VP of Engineering, explains his technical choices while Samad Wahedi comments on why they decided not to use BPM standards as they aim at providing workflow for the masses.
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Looking inside Silverlight XAP Files, and Making Them Smaller
Silverlight makes it easy to accidentally deploy far more code than what’s needed for an application. ComponentOne’s XapOptimizer makes it easy to fix that.
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Virtual Panel: The Current and Future State of RIA
InfoQ recently conducted a virtual panel on the current and future state of RIA and Ajax technologies. The panel features a number of valued contributors to the community including Dion Almaer, Jnan Dash, Didier Girard, Peter Pilgrim, Tim Sneath, and Ryan Stewart.
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PRISM 2 Supports Silverlight
Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0, a.k.a. PRISM 2, has been released on Microsoft Downloads. This release offers guidance for building Silverlight client applications as well as guidance for reusing code between WPF applications and Silverlight ones.
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Scott Guthrie on Web Technologies During MIX 09
In an interview held by Channel 9, Scott Guthrie talks about MIX 2009, Silverlight 3, upcoming VS 2010 Tools for Silverlight, and Expression.