November 30, 2009
I just heard the news announced at PDC that the Managed Extensibility Framework, or MEF, is now slated to be included in Silverlight 4. Great news!
I did a bit of proof of concept work using MEF about a year ago. MEF is all about composition of providers and consumers. MEF’s main job is to connect [...]
Tags: .NET, exceptions, MEF, Microsoft, Silverlight
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February 12, 2009
Congratulations to Miguel de Icaza and his team at Novell for the completion and release of Moonlight 1.0! Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight for the Linux platform developed in a joint effort between Novell and Microsoft.
Silverlight was the primary deployment vehicle for live online video coverage of the Olympics last summer, and [...]
Tags: .NET, Microsoft, Mono, Moonlight, Novell, Silverlight, video
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November 19, 2008
Scott Guthrie gives us a status report on the Silverlight 2 deployment and key design wins worldwide. 100 million downloads of Silverlight 2 in the past 4 weeks. Silverlight is now on 1 in 4 PCs on the web. BlockBuster and Netflix both use Silverlight for their online movie players.
Scott also sketches out some details on [...]
Tags: BlockBuster, H.264, NetFlix, Silverlight, Visual Studio
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November 14, 2008
A few folks I’ve talked to in the Live Frameworks CTP forum or in email have expressed a little bit of confusion or a lot of surprise at what you can do with the Live Mesh platform and Live Frameworks. Let’s run through a few of scenarios to give you an idea of the breadth of options you have to leverage Live [...]
Tags: Google Gears, Live Framework, Live Mesh, Mesh, Silverlight
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October 28, 2008
Yesterday at PDC Microsoft unveiled Windows Azure, a new platform for global scale distributed computing services, often called “cloud computing”. Today Microsoft rolled out tools for creating apps that use Live Services, access the same Mesh Objects you see in Live Mesh, or execute in the Windows Azure cloud. Mesh-enabled web applications can even update themselves thanks to Feedsync-enabled Live Services [...]
Tags: Azure, Live Framework Tools, Mesh, Microsoft, PDC2008, Silverlight, Visual Studio
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October 14, 2008
The second major version of Microsoft’s Silverlight web platform, featuring new UI controls and a lot more, has been released. Read all about it in Scott Guthrie’s post.
Tags: Microsoft, Silverlight
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September 26, 2008
Scott Guthrie has announced the availability of Silverlight 2 Release Candidate. Scott’s post also delves into some of the details of this release, including new controls and near-final UI skins for the entire Silverlight control set. Check it out!
Tags: Silverlight
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June 26, 2008
In the midst of writing some Silverlight code, something struck my funny bone: .NET has an Application.Current.
“Current” suggests “now”, and its existance suggests there was a need to distinguish “now” from something else. Does that mean there could be an Application.Next? Application.Future? Application.Past? Those could save me a lot of effort. How will I fix [...]
Tags: .NET, silliness, Silverlight
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June 25, 2008
In getting back up to speed with Silverlight, and in particular the new Silverlight 2 beta 2, I’ve been surfing through the many quickstart topics on various web sites. While skimming “Receiving Plain XML Messages with Silverlight” these words lept out at me:
note: The WebClient class does not currently support cross-domain calls.
Say what?
The article then [...]
Tags: cross-domain, Microsoft, Silverlight, XDR
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June 9, 2008
In all the excitement of getting oriented in the new digs at Microsoft, I almost missed the news that Silverlight 2 beta 2 has been released! You can get the goods from Silverlight.net. I found a nice overview of what Silverlight 2 and beta 2 have over on the GeekValley blog.
Lots to dig into in Silverlight [...]
Tags: Microsoft, Silverlight
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