Tag Archives: silverlight

Is Silverlight overtaking both Flex and AIR?

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Marcus

Reading the feature list of the upcoming Silverlight 4 release (now in beta), I am more than a bit impressed.  Up to now, there has been a few glaring features by which Silverlight was trailing behind Flex – camera/mic input; … Continue reading →

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Silverlight tools for the Mac

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Marcus

Just reading about the efforts to produce an Eclipse-based Silverlight development platform for the Mac – quite cool. I have to think though, perhaps the effort would have been better spent creating a port of Blend for the Mac… it … Continue reading →

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Creating a custom Silverlight 3 Smooth Streaming player

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Marcus

When it comes to video delivery, I come from a Flash background.  I’ve worked on numerous streaming video projects over the years, all of which were created with Flash & Actionscript on the client side. Having been through the process … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio Silverlight/xaml bug

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Marcus

This one was driving me crazy for at least a few hours.  On a fresh install of VS2008 & Silverlight 3 tools, there was no xaml code highlighting at all, no intellisense, nothing – just like any ordinary text file.  … Continue reading →

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