Tag: Silverlight
All the articles with the tag "Silverlight".
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OpenXML + Silverlight 2.0 = cool!
Mix '08 announced some nice things, among them the release of Silverlight 2.0 (beta), ASP.NET MVC framework (CTP 2). This morning, I saw one very cool thing in my RSS reader: TextGlow. TextGlow is James Newton-King's newest exciting project which basically combines Silverlight 2.0 and OpenXML into a fancy web-based Word 2007 document viewer. Think about combining this with my own Word 2007 document preview handler...
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Microsoft Tafiti just released
I'm sure you have already heared of SilverLight before, right? If not: it's Microsoft's answer to Adobe Flash, providing the same features + XAML-like markup + easier databinding + ... Now you're up to pubDatetime: the Redmond people have just released a new site, Microsoft Tafiti, which is basically Live Search combined with a rich SilverLight interface. Tafiti means "do research" in Swahili. Don't think I'm a native Swahili speaker though, I found this here 8-) The screenshot I made was first rendered in FireFox. No need to worry your SilverLight application not going to work on other systems than Windows + IE! If this is the way the web is evolving, I like it! Slick graphics, but not the "feeling" you are working in a browser plugin.