This April refresh is still a CTP-quality and as such there are a few known issues with this latest release. Our goal was at least to get a set of tools that would be available to enable people to move to Visual Studio 2010 release. The known issues are documented in the release notes for the April 2010 refresh.
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Read about one of the first applications developed in the Netherlands using Silverlight 3.0 - the IQuality’s Line-of-Business (LOB) Application developed for Safe Concept. Here you can learn more about the Safe Concept web application and you can find some technical details. You may also want to watch a demo at YouTube.
You see, the SMF itself is essentially a set of controls…but not an ‘app’ itself that you can just consume the binary. What I did was basically create a new Silverlight application myself with one simple element: Player. This way I could implement what I needed for my use. The first thing I wanted was to have a simple XAP that I’d be able to load parameters in…very much like we did for SL Video Player on codeplex. To make essentially the player have a flexible use model. I could host the player anywhere and just feed it media to play.
In this article Jonathan Allen is trying to clear the confusion about the difference between WPF and Silverlight.
As both WPF and Silverlight increase in importance among .NET developers, the confusion about the difference between the two has also increased. Back in June Wintellect released a little known but incredibly important whitepaper on the topic simply titled Microsoft WPF-Silverlight Comparison Whitepaper. While we recommend GUI developers read all 69 pages, we offer you a summary of the major ones that impact line-of-business developers.
In this post Danijel Stulic talks about threading in the major RIA scenarios.
A non-responsive user interface due to heavy computational work can lead to very poor user experience. In order to avoid freezing user interface, use of multi-threading is a must in any complex Rich Internet Application. Here are some pointers on multi-threading options in existing technologies and those that will come in the (near) future.
Abel Avram announces that Intel is porting Silverlight to Linux.
Intel demonstrated IIS Smooth Streaming running both on Windows 7 and Moblin on Atom devices, and promised to make Silverlight available to be run on Moblin early next year. This is done by having a partnership with Microsoft which gives the Silverlight’s source code and test suites to Intel which in return will give Microsoft a version of Silverlight ported to Moblin. When that happens, applications developed for Windows/Atom will be also running on Moblin.
Today interactions with a server in Silverlight applications are usually built through web-services. Web-services assume data exchange in XML format between a client and a server via protocol SOAP or REST. Besides, client’s applications can request other resources from a server. Undoubtedly, all these ways present the developer with convenient tools for an applications building. However, such forms of interaction contain certain threats. Let us have a look at ways of Silverlight applications interaction with a server, and then we will find out what threats exist and how they can be eliminated.