Miguel de Icaza [1] is writing yesterday on his blog that he wrote a Silverlight plugin for Linux [2]:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, June 22, 2007
The German trial versions [1] of Microsoft Expression Studio [2] are now available. The full versions will be available in about 6 weeks, Expression Web is already available.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, June 14, 2007
Infragistics [1] is already deeply involved in Silverlight development [2]. They are excited about the platform as the next-generation Web UI. They think there are several key wins in Silverlight [3] for Web application development and are exploring how they can best provide controls and tooling to complement what Microsoft provides in the box.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, June 14, 2007
The source code of the 3D engine called Balder is available on CodePlex [1], now. The state of the source code is not 100% yet, but people can download it for now and have a look at how you could do a simple 3D engine.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Die .NET User Group Franken [1] trifft sich mal wieder, diesmal in den Räumen der evosoft GmbH (Dank geht an Igor Milovanovic [2]).
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Since yesterday you can download Safari 3 Plublic Beta for Windows [1]. "The world's best browser.", "the fastest, easiest-to-use Web browser in the world" - does this really be true?
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Well, during the weekend I added a small test to log how many visitors of my blog have installed the Silverlight [1] plug-in already.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, June 11, 2007
During the weekend I found several new examples about Silverlight [1]. Because I'm running several Web sites that need any kind of diagrams I was happy to see these nice examples from Richard: JellyBar [2], JellyGraph [3] and JellyPie [4].
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, June 11, 2007
Today I read on the VistaDB blog [1] that their database engine will run on Silverlight [2]. I'm not sure if I want to put a complete database engine in Silverlight applications [3]. Do I have to put the database files into IsolatedStorage or will it be only in-memory?
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, June 8, 2007
During the last days I have added some new tutorials [1] and examples [2] to my list. Dave Campbell sent me a short message that he has already a kind of Silverlight examples collection. Have a look on his list of Silverlight tagged articles he wrote [3] and external Silverlight examples as well [4].
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, June 8, 2007
There are a couple of great tutorials on how to developer Microsoft Silverlight [1] 1.0 or 1.1 Web applications:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, June 6, 2007
You may have read my post about how you can build Silverlight Web applications with Visual Studio .NET 2005 [1] instead of using the next verison codename Orcas. Until this time I used always a Virtual PC which was sometimes a little bit slow.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Ok, it was a very simple bug on my side with the ZIndex property. I have updated the online version [1] and the download [2]. If you have a slow connection you may have to wait some seconds to see the video.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Tomorrow there is an online event for developers talking about Silverlight at 2:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada):
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Did you ever compared client-side RIA frameworks? Alexey Gavrilov [1] has written a great test to directly compare performance [2]: Silverlight (WPF/e) vs. DHTML vs. Flash (Flex) vs. WPF vs Apollo vs. Java (Swing):
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, June 5, 2007
In one of my last posts [1] I wrote about the Silverlight Surface [2] demo of the "photo table". If you had a look on the live demo [3] you only see images, no video. I have added this because it is a very great idea to do it with Silverlight and the high media support inside.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, June 4, 2007
During the weekend I spent some minutes to collect some of the greatest Silverlight [1] examples. Most of them need the Silverlight 1.1 alpha runtime which is available for download here [2].
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, June 4, 2007
Microsoft announced some days ago its Surface product [1]. If you didn't had a look on the videos you should watch it.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, June 4, 2007
Could Silverlight [1] 1.1 assemblies be generated with Visual Studio .NET 2005? Well, if you read the GetStarted [2] page of Silverlight you see only upcoming Visual Studio codename Orcas as development platform.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, June 4, 2007
Microsoft Silverlight Streaming [1] is a new service by Windows Live that makes it easier for developers and designers to deliver and scale rich meda as part of their Silverlight applications. The new service offers web designers and developers a free and convenient solution for hosting and streaming cross-platform, cross-browser media experiences and rich interactive applications that run on Windows and Mac.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, June 4, 2007
During my tests with the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) in Silverlight 1.1 [1] I came accross several things that didn't work first. Most of them could be fixed by using small workarounds.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, June 1, 2007
Silverlight 1.1 [1] comes with an built-in JSON serializer which can serialize common data types like string, numbers and arrays. It includes a object serializer, too, I think it is nearly the same as in ASP.NET AJAX or Ajax.NET Professional.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, June 1, 2007
Today I wrote a very simple example how to call a C# method from JavaScript code. I was using this because I'd like to access the IsolatedStorage with a small wrapper that is working similar to the registry.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, June 1, 2007
There are some changes for the OnLoad event handler from older beta versions (code name WPF/E). In Silverlight 1.0 beta you will use following event handler, now:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, June 1, 2007