Silverlight

The exe is here C:Program FilesMicrosoft SDKsSilverlightv2.0Tools via Katrien’s MSDN Blog

Play with it HERE (requires Silverlight 2). Very nice approach. On Jamie’s site there is a link to source code. Docked windows with sliding, Charts react to mouse overs in other controls, great visual clues, the wizard for retirement planning works well and more. via Jamie Rodriguez

In this show I chatted with Tim Vercruysse, Director - Software Development, Citi/Lava Technology.  We discussed the unique challenges that he faces, being in the financial services industry, and how they differ from what most people mean when they talk about "user experience".  Tim also talked about the main benefits - beyond user experience - that he sees from Silverlight and WPF.  Last, we wrapped up with a discussion of what developers in the financial services industry need to learn in order to stay relevant in this demanding environment.

Listen to the podcast here (Quicktime file link)

HERE via Rich Internet Applications

Download Silverlight 2 Beta 1 HERE Cross Domain Network Access Deep Zoom Technology Framework Languages (Visual Basic, Visual C#, IronRuby, Ironpython) Full suite of Controls (TextBox, RadioButton, Slider, Calendar, DatePicker, DataGrid, ListBox, and others) Isolated Storage JSON, REST, SOAP/WS-*, POX, and RSS Web Services (as well as support for Sockets) LINQ to Objects Managed Control Framework Managed Exception Handling Managed HTML Bridge Media – Content Protection Rich […]

Adobe’s Flash Player Not Suited For IPhone, Apple CEO Says

I’m here at Mix08 where I’ve signed on as a guest blogger and podcaster for Zoom-In Online. You can see all of my posts here:

So far I posted a couple about the keynote, including Ray Ozzie and Dean Hachamovitch (General Manager for IE) with plenty more to come.

Scott Guthrie’s Silverlight 2.0 tutorials, Building a Simple Digg Client, closed the deal for me on using WPF. The closer, Part 8. The Rule of Least Surprise Is a general principle in the design of all kinds of interfaces, not just software: “Do the least surprising thing”. In my post Why use WPF? my friend Drew Marsh […]

Check out this excellent CodeProject submission named "Legion", which is a grid computing ("cycle stealing") framework in Silverlight, by Daniel Vaughan.

Full disclosure: uses graphing component by Lab49’s own Andre de Cavaignac

For example, you could use this as the basis of a client for financial data analysis, where the application downloaded stock prices and other financial information and presented it in a rich client experience. Yes Tim we’re listening. Tim’s post is HERE. Highlights of the SDK public release used to build The New York Times reader: Public release […]

Pete Brown posts an article on Silverlight 2.0, why he stopped using Silverlight 1.1 and reuse of our .NET skill set for either rich desktop or rich browser applications. via Synergist

Daniel Vaughan has a very cool project up on CodeProject.com. He's built an awesome grid computing "platform" using Silverlight for his compute nodes. Think SETI@Home style. CodeProject article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/GridComputing.aspx Online Demo: http://www.orpius.com/Silverlight/Legion/ Make sure you checkout the administration console in the demo!

The ASP.NET guys at Microsoft released their first ASP.NET 3.5 Extension which includes some cool features like Dynamic Data Support (watch this cool video), Silverlight Support, AJAX Improvements, ASP.NET MVC and more.

I was especially impressed by the dynamic data support which simplifies your data management w/o too much effort. You can read more about the new package features here and to download it here. Try it, its cool.

This release provides the same features as the Silverlight Tools Alpha add-on which was previously available for Visual Studio 2008 Beta2. Download Silverlight Quickstarts

Posted about a WPF Twitter Client. A colleague, Manung Han, pointed out Twitterific. Wonder if if there is a Silverlight implementation of Iota and if runs on Moonlight?

Via Bob Familiar at the ReMix07 Facebook group, the content from the ReMix07 Boston sessions is coming online, there’s an RSS feed to stay on top of it here.

I made a short post about WPF, Why use WPF? Charlie Calvert, CPM for the C# group, sums up David Chappell’s article. For today, Windows Forms are the choice for line of business applications. Standards-based Web interfaces for browsers with AJAX for more interactivity. Rich Internet Applications (RIA): Silverlight, which is not a standards-based Web technology, offer a more powerful […]

I came across this Microsoft new gig, named Popfly. While I’m still trying to figure out what the purpose of this site (and I’m sure the guys in Microsoft doing the same), everyone who’s looking to get a feeling of what you can do with silverlight, should check it out as well.

Basically, Microsoft is trying to market Popfly as a platform to create mashups, Widgets / Gadgets or web-pages. I’m not sure whether they try to compete with GooglePages or just try to promote the Silverlight (which heavily struggles with Adobe Flex), but it might be a good start.

Popfly also has a nice plug-in to visual studio, which i believe the Visual Studio Express users will find it more attractive.

Bottom line, try it out, just to get the sense of Silverlight.

In Silverlight

I’ve just registered for the ReMix07 conference up in Cambridge October 7-9. Shoot me an email (daniel at lab 49 dot com) if you’re Boston-based and want to chat with a Lab49 founder. Otherwise, check back here for blogging and photos from the event.