Silverlight 4 Silverlight 4 Released - ScottGu has the announcement, where to download, and points to some other resources Silverlight 4 released. Availability of tools announcement - One of the resources ScottGu points at is this one which covers what's in the bits, RIA Services, Windows Phone 7 Developer...
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MIX10/Silverlight/Windows Phone/WPF MIX 10 Rollup Post - I didn't really continue with MIX10 Day 2 coverage so I am glad to see Scott's Rollup post which includes the announcement of the IE9 Developer Preview which is available now Install checklist for Silverlight 4 RC, Blend 4 Beta and Windows Phone...
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MIX10/Silverlight4/WindowsPhone/XNA Big day of announcements at MIX yesterday starting with: The Silverlight 4 Release Candidate - René Schulte highlights the MIX10 announcement of the release of the Silverlight 4 Release candidate, sharing a high level overview of the new features in version...
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Windows AppFabric/WF 4.0 Getting Started with Windows Server AppFabric - The AppFabric team in a post to the CSD blog The .NET Endpoint, takes you through the steps of installing AppFabic (including prerequisites) and getting started with tutorials. If you need a review of what AppFabic offers, see this...
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WCF/Azure/BizTalk/Oslo WCF Interoperability Highlighted at PDC and ApacheCon - Kent highlights the work, showcased in the PDC booth, for WCF's interoperability through the WS-* protocols. In particular, they highlighted the Apache project Stonehenge, where Microsoft worked together with WS-* vendors...
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PDC PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Steven Sinofsky - Sasha covers the keynote which talked about the development process of Windows 7 and what it means to develop for Windows 7. Internet Explorer was also announced. PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie - Coverage by Sasha. Scott announced Silverlight 4 with...
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Designer v XAML v Code - Jesse Liberty has the second on his new series on Getting Started with Silverlight. He starts out with something that brought me joy, "Until recently, just about every introduction to Silverlight started out by talking about Xaml; the markup language of Silverlight, WPF...
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First time I have been up at 5AM in a very long time. BTW, the new Starbucks Via Ready Brew coffees are amazing. They are whole bean instant coffees. They say it took them 20 years to come up with it. All I know, is that it is the first instant coffee I have ever had in my life that doesn’t taste...
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Agile/TDD TDD Triage - The echoes from Joel Spolsky’s Duct Tape blog continue. Uncle Bob, after all the controversy from his last two posts, talks about where TDD works and where it doesn’t Software Development Tools My History of Visual Studio (Part 3) - Rico Mariani continues the story...
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Software Development/ALT.NET I’m probably the only blogger that didn’t link to or comment on Joel’s latest essay, duct tape programmers . I am not going to bother commenting on it either as Joel’s writing tends to just infuriate me and make me wonder why *anyone* is paying attention...
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Software Tools The big news of the day which is quite welcome, is the new 2009 version of Scott Hanselman's " Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools List for Windows ." Code Optimized Web Development Profile (VS2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) Why Declarative UIs are Important ADO.NET Data Services...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design Building Your Own Data Access Layer: Hydrating Entities A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Hydrating Entities Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Session Level Cache Talking about StoryTeller and Executable Requirements Measuring Agile Performance with the Agile...
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Agile/ALT.NET James Shore provides a Introduction to Agile for QA People This is late but Davy Brion has started a series on Build Your Own Data Access Layer Series . Some posts include Out of the Box CRUD Functionality , Mapping Classes to Tables , and Hydrating Entities . Ayende seems to be having...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design Moving to Kanban: A Mentoring Session A Conversation On Adopting Kanban Refactoring Day 20: Extract Subclass Herding code on MVVM and other presentation patterns in WPF & Silverlight Entity Framework/Oslo Julie has more on Oslo & Data Programability Merger Julie...
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Software Design Refactoring Day 18: Replace exception with condtional Refactoring Day 19: Extract Factory Class WCF/Azure Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/19/2009+ One Minute Survey: WCF PDC Topics - your inputs are needed Other My good friend Jason has updated his Reflector.Babel Addin OAuth in...
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Silverlight 3/RIA Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 3 - Pros and Cons Moonlight 2 Beta 1 Moonlight 2.0 Beta 1 Contains Features from Silverlight 3.0 - Moonlight, the open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight for Linux and Unix/X11 systems, has reached version 2...
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Silverlight LinqToSQL A Detailed Review - Jesse continues his Silverlight Turing project Software Design/Refactoring Refactoring Day 15: Remove Duplication Refactoring Day 16: Encapsulate C onditional WCF What's New in WCF 4: Alternative List Conference Talks Brian Noyes has slides and code for 2 INETA...
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Software Development Tools/Agile One of the best tools in the world , and one I install just after VS on a new machine has received a new update. In the first post on TestDriven.NET 2.23 Beta , Jamie talks about how if you are using TD.NET 2.23 on a 64-bit system, running tests is almost twice as fast...
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Windows Azure New Storage Feature: Signed Access Signature Summary and Transcript: First Windows Azure Lounge Chat Software Design Refactoring Day 11: Switch to Strategy Software/Silverlight SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP Available Today StyleCop update 4.3.2.1 is released Business Apps Example for Silverlight...
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Software Design The Presentation Patterns Wiki is live! Refactoring Day 6: Push Down Field Refactoring Day 7: Rename (method, class, parameter) Refactoring Day 8: Replace Inheritance with Delegation Refactoring Day 9: Extract Interface Refactoring Day 10: Extract Method xUnit.net 1.5 Beta Released Windows...
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ASP.NET AJAX/ASP.NET 4.0/ASP.NET MVC Get early access to ASP.NET AJAX in Action, Second Edition - This was THE ASP.NET AJAX book per ScottGu and others in the original ASP.NET 4.0 Series Index Post ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Enhancements Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 available on Amazon Windows Azure/WF/WCF/Identity...
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WCF/WF/Azure Developer Introductions to WCF and WF in .NET 4 Beta 1 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/3/09+ Agile Refactoring Day 3: Pull Up Method Silverlight Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Summary Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM...
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ASP.NET MVC Single Project Areas with ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 WCF/Oslo Client Certificate Credential Verification Polling Duplex Sample with Silverlight 3 What's So Compelling about "Quadrant" Anyway? Silverlight Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part...
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Had extensive sinus surgery Monday and healing all week. There may be few blog posts. Ioc/WCF/WF/Azure Via Jeremy, Introducing the Common Service Factory - IoC and WCF Living in Harmony New walkthroughs for the July CTP of Windows Azure Tools Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 7/20/2009+ Migration...
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Silverlight 3 Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 8: WCF Based Data Source Building Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 from Visual Studio 2008 New in Silverlight 3: Perspective Transforms What's New in SL3 - Based On Styles What's New in Silverlight 3 - Validation...
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Windows Azure Microsoft Revealsd Windows Azure Prices Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 7/13/2009+ Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model Some Slides from Microsoft's Partner Conference That Focus on Azure Windows Azure and ISVs: A Guide for Decision Makers CLR/.NET...
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Congrats to the Silverlight team for getting another major release out the door in a short period of time (only 9 months!). ScottGu has the announcement topic with lots of information on what's new and links. Tim Heuer also has a post - Silverlight 3 Released! What is new/changed with more links. Shawn...
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.NET Services/Windows Azure Clemens continues with The .NET Service Bus REST Protocol - Some Questions, Some Answers and . NET Services March 2009 CTP - Service Bus Routers and Queues - Part 4: The REST Queue Protocol in Code Snippets , and .NET Services March 2009 CTP - Service Bus Routers and Queues...
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Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Dave Pallmann's Azure Application Monitor is now on CodePlex Windows Azure Mix '09 Videos Cloud Computing Links March 25, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/23/2009+ Christian Weyers slides and app from DevWeek 2009: Azure Services Platform Mix '09/ASP.NET...
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Windows Azure/Cloud Computing The Azure Fabric Controller - read What Is: The Azure Fabric and the Development Fabric first Cloud Computing Links March 22, 2009 Silverlight Mix09: Silverlight for Business Apps and .NET RIA Services talks posted Introducing the New Silverlight Blog - new team blog REST...
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Lots of catching up to do. Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Windows Azure Tools and SDK March 2009 CTP Released David Chappell has a new whitepaper on Introducing Windows Azure ASP.NET MVC/AJAX ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is Now Live! Phill Haack's post ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released! Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 4 now available...
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ASP.NET MVC Chapter 1 of Steven Walter's upcoming book ASP.NET MVC Unleashed, in rough draft, is available Shawn continues with Building Agiltrain: Part 3 Data Validation Silverlight Rocky - Why Silverlight is the Future WCF Message Framing, Part 7...
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I am real pleased with the Silverlight 2 cycle. Congrats to the team for a great product. See ScottGu's post for all the details. Technorati Tags: Silverlight...
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CSD/WF/WCF/Oslo We start today with Cliff Simpkins in CSD at Microsoft who lets us know about a new batch of papers, demos and guides in various downloads, mostly pertaining to WF. Great stuff! Pay particular attention to the release of Patterns & Practices Group : Improving Web Services Security...
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As Jon notes , the BizTalk course in NYC that he taught is over. I want to thank Jon for a great course. If you want to take the best BizTalk (or WF or WCF) courses around, you want to see Jon and Pluralsight. I also really enjoyed hanging out with Jon all week, and going to his NYC REST talk . SQL Server...
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I have been real busy, among other things, doing a full review and change cycle on my Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture talk that I am doing tonight . The entire deck has changed. There has been even more strides towards full asynchronous messaging. To that end, I have worked with...
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WF/CSD WF can be a tricky thing. As Cliff blogs , the CSD folks have added two great prescriptive guidance articles for WF to the MSDN Online Library : an article by Jon Flanders to help choose between sequential workflows and state machines, and a major article by Michele Leroux Bustamante explaining...
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Silverlight/WPF Silverlight Games today and more on the way Hanselminutes Podcast 122 - BabySmash! Tip of the Day #21 - How to work with Shapes, Brushes and Gradients Silverlight Cream for July 25, 2008 -- #334 New version of Silverlight Spy Web 2.0/Social Networking Hanselminutes Podcast 123- Dare Obasanjo...
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BizTalk/WCF/SOA Steve Maines talks about the changes in WCF/WF with .NET 3.5 SP1 Jean-Paul Smit has released a Biztalk Solution Factory on Codeplex . His post about it is here . [ via Santosh – read his post ] Microsoft has a new Whitepaper "Integrating Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with...
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WCF/DI/BizTalk Nice pair of posts: Dependency Injection in WCF Services and Dependency Injection in WCF Services Part 2 Article Series on BizTalk and WCF: Part VIII, BizTalk Adapter Pack Service Model Patterns ASP.NET/OR/M/ASP.NET MVC EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 1) MVC Storefront,...
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WCF/DI/BizTalk Nice pair of posts: Dependency Injection in WCF Services and Dependency Injection in WCF Services Part 2 Article Series on BizTalk and WCF: Part VIII, BizTalk Adapter Pack Service Model Patterns ASP.NET/OR/M/ASP.NET MVC EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 1) MVC Storefront, Part 8...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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Neudesic's Rich Weston, Morty Nivers, and Tom Messbauer were recently interviewed on Josh Holmes' Code To Live on the leading edge work that Neudesic is doing with Silverlight on top of SharePoint at Echelon. Listen to the Interview Technorati Tags: Neudesic , Silverlight , UX...
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Neudesic's Rich Weston, Morty Nivers, and Tom Messbauer were recently interviewed on Josh Holmes' Code To Live on the leading edge work that Neudesic is doing with Silverlight on top of SharePoint at Echelon. Listen to the Interview Technorati Tags: Neudesic , Silverlight , UX...
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ASP.NET MVC Scott Hanselman's ASP.NET MVC Cheesy Northwind Sample Code WPF/Silverlight 'Prism' launches on CodePlex Single source code base for Silverlight and WPF solutions Wonderful WPF Applications : bTwitter C#/.NET/DLR/IronPython Community Convergence XLI Congrats to my good friend Harry...
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ASP.NET MVC Scott Hanselman's ASP.NET MVC Cheesy Northwind Sample Code WPF/Silverlight 'Prism' launches on CodePlex Single source code base for Silverlight and WPF solutions Wonderful WPF Applications : bTwitter C#/.NET/DLR/IronPython Community Convergence XLI Congrats to my good friend Harry on joining...
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We are running our developer conference again three times this year. This is all on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 technologies you need in order to be productive like LINQ, Silverlight, ADO.NET Entity Framework, WCF, and SQL Server 2008. I will be speaking at the NYC event on Real World SOA...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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In addition to adding support for .NET, Microsoft is taking the next version of Silverlight farther by adding a comprehensive control model, powerful skinning/theming, data binding, and over 20 controls in the box. To better capture the scope of the feature set for the next version of Silverlight Microsoft...
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In addition to adding support for .NET, Microsoft is taking the next version of Silverlight farther by adding a comprehensive control model, powerful skinning/theming, data binding, and over 20 controls in the box. To better capture the scope of the feature set for the next version of Silverlight Microsoft...
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Speaking of Visual Studion 2008, we (Neudesic) have developed a great deal of real-world knowledge of it during the last year and we are ready to tell you about it! Along with our friends at Microsoft, K2 and QuickStart, we are hosting NuCon 2007 , with three deep-dive tracks into Visual Studio 2008...
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WCF/BizTalk Services Brian talks about the new CodeRush 2.5.4 WCF Templates which take the drudgery out of the boilerplate stuff. I have gone personally to a combination of Resharper + CodeRush. I use Resharper for all the Refactoring plus the code analysis and I use CodeRush for the templates and keyboard...
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WCF/BizTalk Services Brian talks about the new CodeRush 2.5.4 WCF Templates which take the drudgery out of the boilerplate stuff. I have gone personally to a combination of Resharper + CodeRush. I use Resharper for all the Refactoring plus the code analysis and I use CodeRush for the templates and keyboard...
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BizTalk Server Channel 9 interview with Tony Bernard , Senior Program Manager, on EDI/AS2 features of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (which is launching this month). [via BizTalk Server Team Blog ] My friend Marjan notes " InfoQ just published their interview with Dino Chiesa , Director of .Net Marketing...
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BizTalk Server Channel 9 interview with Tony Bernard , Senior Program Manager, on EDI/AS2 features of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (which is launching this month). [via BizTalk Server Team Blog ] My friend Marjan notes " InfoQ just published their interview with Dino Chiesa , Director of .Net Marketing...
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My news favorite drink: A StarBucks Black Eye . SOA Service Oriented Infrastructure Building Justifying the need for Composite Applications Enterprise Architecture Agility, Feedback, and Enterprise Architecture CLR/Orcas/Silverlight Sharing Code Between Silverlight and Orcas Orcas Gacutil -- Where to...
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My news favorite drink: A StarBucks Black Eye . SOA Service Oriented Infrastructure Building Justifying the need for Composite Applications Enterprise Architecture Agility, Feedback, and Enterprise Architecture CLR/Orcas/Silverlight Sharing Code Between Silverlight and Orcas Orcas Gacutil -- Where to...
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So, I am totally thrilled in my new role at Neudesic , where today, I got to spend quite a bit of time with one of our Distinquished Engineer, David Pallmann , the architect of our Neuron ESB . We're doing a lot of thinking and doing with SOA at Neudesic. I am soaking in the BizTalk too...good thing...
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So, I am totally thrilled in my new role at Neudesic , where today, I got to spend quite a bit of time with one of our Distinquished Engineer, David Pallmann , the architect of our Neuron ESB . We're doing a lot of thinking and doing with SOA at Neudesic. I am soaking in the BizTalk too...good thing...
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TGIF!!! WCF/Indigo Three posts from Steve Maines, one on the WebServiceHostFactory Then Zen of the Web Programming Model Part 1 and Part 2 Great post from Christian - Improving WCF Interoperability - Flattening Your WSDL More on building and hosting the BizTalk Services Omri has a detailed post on what's...
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TGIF!!! WCF/Indigo Three posts from Steve Maines, one on the WebServiceHostFactory Then Zen of the Web Programming Model Part 1 and Part 2 Great post from Christian - Improving WCF Interoperability - Flattening Your WSDL More on building and hosting the BizTalk Services Omri has a detailed post on what...
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I installed all of the stuff I listed in my last post . I was able to create a simple program using Orcas Beta 1 and the 1.1 SDK. Everything just installed and worked perfectly. I just love this stuff! Best stuff from Microsoft in years. This may make me back into a Web Programmer....
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Tim Sneath : " It is with tremendous pleasure that I can reveal Microsoft Silverlight : our next-generation, cross-platform, cross-browser web client runtime. Silverlight (previously codenamed "WPF/E") is a lightweight subset of XAML for building rich media experiences on the web."...
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