- Posted by christhi on January 27, 2009
A great article just got posted Tuesday on IT Business Net by Matthew David titled, “Microsoft’s Silverlight Tightens the Screws on Adobe’s Flash?” The story highlights three different areas where he perceives Silverlight has advantages over Flash, including:
ü Microsoft’s offering of a full plate of developer tools to be used in conjunction with Silverlight;
ü Silverlight was built for devices and should hit Mobile in 2009, and
ü Microsoft has a more sound business foundation than Adobe.
In the article, David states, “A weakness of Adobe Flash is its inability to easily create complex solutions, test the solutions and manage the code used in the development process.” As a result, Microsoft has an advantage over Adobe because of its developer tools especially those around ALM, meaning Silverlight developers can use other programs, such as Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio Team Suite, to seamlessly create applications in a very productive way. On the Mobile front, David states, “Silverlight as a technology has been developed for deployment to many different platforms. In contrast, Adobe is spending millions retrofitting Flash to work on the ultra-conservative CPU’s found in even the most powerful mobile phones.” He predicts that because Silverlight was created with the ability to run across several platforms, 2009 will usher in Silverlight for Mobile operating systems and leave Flash behind.
Microsoft’s SilverLight tightens the screws on Adobe Flash?ITBusinessNet
January 20, 2009; by Matthew David
http://softwaredev.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=630745
- Posted by christhi on January 20, 2009
Check out the following third part review at
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2009/01/best-i.html. CBS was best overall and used SilverLight for their streaming!
- Posted by christhi on January 20, 2009
The official streaming feed of Barak Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Committee will be using Silverlight 2!! This news was great for SilverLight 2.0 users (Mac on Intel and Windows) howerver using managed code in the player originally left out Linux users of the Moonlight 1.0 beta, as well as PowerPC Mac users. To support the widest platform possible Microsoft has teamed up with the Moonlight team at Novell and they've created a Silverlight 1.0 version of the player that works great in both Moonlight and PowerPC Macs. The only limitation is that the SL1 player can only produce a 500 Kbps stream and lacks managed code however the experience should be close to those running SL2.
The Silverlight 1.0 compatible player is low live at:
http://www.pic2009.org/page/content/linuxplayer
Note that this player is only for Silverlight 1.0 and doesn't work with Internet Explorer. The Silverlight 2.0 player for Windows or Intel Mac is at:
http://www.pic2009.org/page/content/live
- Posted by christhi on January 19, 2009
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Creating SilverLight 2 LOB Applications with Blend 2 SP1
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| January 24, 2009 02:45 PM - 03:45 PM Room: TBD |
| Christian Thilmany, Microsoft |
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Microsoft Expression Blend 2 SP1 is the glue that brings together the designer and developer workflows (and with SP1 now produces SilverLight 2 Applications). It natively supports Visual Studio 2008 projects and allows designers and developers to work on the same files and resources allowing each to leverage their strengths in the application design process. In this session we will show how Expression Blend uses the power and flexibility of XAML to help deliver line of business applications (LOB) to both the desktop and the web via WPF and SilverLight using advanced controls such as the DataGrid and Calendar. Blend allows the designer to use their complete range of skills, leveraging libraries such as the RSS syndication feed, vector and pixel art, animations and data binding while seamlessly integrating into the developers workflow.
http://houstontechfest.com/dotnetnuke/HoustonTechFest/Sessions/tabid/56/CodecampId/1/SessionId/67/Default.aspx
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- Posted by christhi on January 13, 2009
For those note familiar with Phizzpop, this is where Minneapolis Design Agencies faceoff to see who can come up with the best UX design through presentation and demo. I'll be there helping our agencies setup but I would look forward to meeting anyone interested in the show. We should see some agazing concepts.
PhizzPop Tour: Minneapolis
Event Date: 01/15/09
Event Location: Solera – 3rd Floor Event Center
Time: 5:30 p.m.
900 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
612-338-0062
Minneapolis, in January . . . you’d better bring your coat!
Get ready to take it off shortly after arriving though, because Microsoft is partnering with MIMA, the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association, to put together a very hot Design Challenge competition.
Request your tickets today. Space is limited for this exciting event.
For details http://phizzpop.visitmix.com/main/TourEventsHome.aspx
- Posted by christhi on January 6, 2009
For those dying to see the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE now that it has been announced (at PDC 2008) that it is being written in WPF. This applies to both to the visual “chrome” and the code editor. We’ll share more information at the upcoming TechEd EMEA and DevConnections events, but for now, here’s a screenshot:
- Posted by christhi on January 4, 2009
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