I had some free time during the holidays and saw at the MIX09 website that they have a contest entitled MIX09 10K Challenge where they ask participant to create a web application that is either using Microsoft® Silverlight™ or Windows Presentation Foundation, as a XAML Browser Application running...
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Silverlight Overview http://www.microsoft.com/SILVERLIGHT/ <---- check this out! so cool! Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIA) for the...
Just in case you are interested... Microsoft is giving away Free E-Books of 3 great books Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo ISBN: 9780735623910 Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX by Dino Esposito ISBN: 9780735624139 Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 by Laurence Moroney...
Wow, NBA.com is now joining the silverlight bandwagon . NEW YORK — Dec. 10, 2007 — The National Basketball Association (NBA) will employ Microsoft Silverlight on NBA.com to further enhance the online video experience for NBA fans around the world. Microsoft Silverlight, a cross-browser, multiplatform...
I'm meeting John Lam sometime this month... (ok, me and about 100 others ). I'm attending his talk on Dynamic Programming Languages for the Web a.k.a IronRuby, IronPython on Silverlight. If you want to ask him a "phone in" question, let me know so I can make a list.
Tim Heuer blogs about the experience of Terralever , a .NET shop who currently produce interactive games based on Flash. They wanted to see if Silverlight can be used to build the type of interactive games they have been building. The end-result is Zero Gravity . They even made their character, Lt. Bennett...
Cruizer has a point, "SilverLight" really does sound like a play on "Flash". I never thought of it that way. I guess I'm losing my sense of fun. ~Groovy Names aside, I think looking at SilverLight just from a "Flash" angle is missing the exciting stuff. I'm not too...
Read the different names they were considering before settling on Silverlight. This is amusing. You can clearly see "geek" written all over with some smart ass ones. I seriously think MS needs a shot of "cool". Silverlight is ... well... just alright. Link to Tim Sneath : How Did...
Pardon the silver surfer tagline, I just watched the FF trailer, and as Johnny would say "That is so cool". Over the last week, there have been a flurry of activities in the blogspace surrounding Microsoft's announcement on MIX. John Lam tries to come up with a way to organize all the different...
Jim Hugunin of IronPython fame announced at the MIX conference the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime). While IronPython demonstrates how good the support for dynamic languages are today in the CLR, the "new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) adds a small set of key features to the CLR to make it dramatically...