Microsoft Silverlight (the new name for WPF/E) - the future of web based apps - try some samples on the site

Silverlight v2 on my Blog

Grace S Long - VA Extraordinaire — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:43:52 GMT

It would not be too difficult to guess who finally brought my blog masthead to the 21st century with

re: Microsoft Silverlight (the new name for WPF/E) - the future of web based apps - try some samples on the site

Vijay Singh Riyait — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:06:56 GMT

Looks like one of the first announcements from MIX 07 is a dynamic language runtime so you can program Silverlight using Java, Ruby and Python.

It's on the Port 25 Blog at port25.technet.com/.../python-java-ruby-oh-my-cross-platform-net-framework.aspx

Excellent stuff!

re: Microsoft Silverlight (the new name for WPF/E) - the future of web based apps - try some samples on the site

David Overton — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:27:59 GMT

Vijay,

Bearing in mind that the rendering is done on the client, I don't see Linux support as a big must. A mainframe could host all but one of the demos on my site today :-)

But who knows... anyway, lets see what they announce.

I love the look of the technology and the pictures on the site now work too :-)

re: Microsoft Silverlight (the new name for WPF/E) - the future of web based apps - try some samples on the site

Vijay Singh Riyait — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:14:12 GMT

There's a session at TVP on Silverlight on 16th May 2007 from 14.15 - 17.00. The details are on the Partner Portal. I'm booked for this, I'm keen to learn more. Now that SBSCs have got VS 2005 Std Ed (once the 2nd CD turns up!), this is a great opportunity to learn this new technology. Great move by Microsoft! There's speculation that a Linux version of Silverlight might be announced at MIX 07. I hope so! It's got tough competition with Adobe and Flash.