May 2007 - Posts

It was only a matter of time...

until someone developers a Flash to Silverlight conversion utility. And the first one that I've see is called Harmony from Electric Rain . The product is not yet in beta, but the promise is to convert SWF files into XAML for either WPF or Silverlight. Read More...

Code-Name Jasper

Named after a venerable Canadian national park (due to the overwhelming influence of Canadians on the Microsoft Data team, who are taking over the U.S. one developer at a time), Jasper is one of the incubation projects from the System.Data team introduced Read More...

WPF Found a Home!

The more I see about Silverlight, both 1.0 and 1.1, the more I realize that WPF has found a client to service. From the moment I heard about XAML and WPF, I questioned where it was going to fit in the real world. A large part of the 'coolness' of XAML Read More...

Drilling Down on the Silverlight Hype

First off, I do think that Silverlight is a very cool piece of technology. Want to see just how astounding? Check out the Top Banana demo application that was part of yesterday's MIX keynote. You can also find it here . What I found most astounding is Read More...