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• What Silverlight is up against - Flash at its best

  I came across this flash interface today. Simple, stunning. Read More... Posted 05 October 2007 12:29 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 1 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, Flash

• Silverlight 1.0: Applying a Render transform dynamically

  Here is an interesting one. Typically with the Silverlight 1.0 object model you can access properties and methods directly through Javascript. Now given this you would expect that to dynamically set a Transform, for example a rotation on a TextBlock, Read More... Posted 27 September 2007 11:57 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 2 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• CreateSilverlight.js and Silverlight.js

  When you starting using Silverlight you will quickly become aware of these magic javascript files called CreateSilverlight.js and Silverlight.js that are part of your projects. I've seen a number questions around why these scripts are there and how Read More... Posted 27 September 2007 09:21 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 1 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, MSDN

• Silverlight error codes

  When working with Silverlight you can often come across cryptic error messages.Fortunately Benjamin Nitschke has done a great job in attempting to document some of the more common ones that occur and made avaible on his blog. This can be a real time saver Read More... Posted 25 September 2007 13:02 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 1 Comments Filed under: Silverlight

• Deploying a Silverlight application to IIS and nothing shows up?

  I'm currently working in the depths of Silverlight and we've recently come across a interesting issue when trying to deploy to a test environment. As ever, everything was working fine locally, but when we deployed to a W2K3 box the Silverlight Read More... Posted 21 September 2007 10:15 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 2 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, IIS, Fiddler

• Flash phone home?

  I came across this today about a new VOIP flash component via Ryan and I have to say it is very, very interesting. Having lived out in the US for the last 12 months I've been heavily reliant on Skype for calls back to the UK to keep in touch with Read More... Posted 21 August 2007 17:05 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 0 Comments Filed under: RIA, Adobe, Silverlight, Ryan Stewart, Cowbell, Flash, Flex

• JoR - Javascript on Rails. Is it April 1st?

  I'm not sure what to make of this one from the Googleplex , it's certainly food for thought but it seems that Steve Yegge at Google has been working on a RoR port to Javascript called Rhino on Rails. Yup you read that right, Javascript on Rails!! Read More... Posted 27 June 2007 23:18 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 0 Comments Filed under: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Silverlight, Java, Javascript, Cowbell, DLR

• Javascript is not suitable for complex computation m'kay! Silverlight and the CLR is. Please use the right tool for the job in hand.

  Catchy title eh! Oh well at least it describes the post ;-). Anyway following my trip to the Google Developer Day in San Jose, I noticed a worrying trend. Obviously people were very focused on Google Gears and how it can be used to "on a plane" Read More... Posted 10 June 2007 03:22 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 0 Comments Filed under: Ajax, Silverlight, Javascript, Google

• RIA: Offline toolkit announced from Google

  Ahead of tomorrows Google Developer Day (which I'm attending) Google have announced the arrival of Google Gears. From their site: " Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality Read More... Posted 31 May 2007 01:26 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 0 Comments Filed under: RIA, Silverlight, Javascript, Google, Offline

• Silverlight: Layout system and controls framework.

  So you eagerly download the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha all set to build the next big RIA saying goodbye to evil Javascript and hello to the CLR....and you then quickly realise.....ahhhhh where's the textbox control, hang on, how the hell do I build a layout... Read More... Posted 18 May 2007 17:35 by Andrew.Britcliffe | 0 Comments Filed under: RIA, Silverlight, CLR