Several months ago, Microsoft inserted themselves into the RIA framework business - years too late and against pretty scary odds - with the initial release of the Silverlight framework. Microsoft Silverlight is the online counterpart to the Microsoft .NET 3.0 Framework and a direct Adobe Flash/Flex competitor.
Microsoft isn’t new to the whole “virtual” monopoly [...]
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Microsoft to Push Silverlight via Redesigned Website
Published by January 3rd, 2008 in Microsoft, Programming, Software, Windows 93 CommentsMicrosoft’s .NET-Powered Windows Live Writer
Published by December 11th, 2007 in Microsoft, Programming, Software, Windows 20 CommentsBelieve it or not, Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is important in more ways than one. To most PC users, Windows Live Writer is simply the best tool that gets the “job” done. More importantly is how “job” is defined though, because WLW does things quite well and quite thorough.
Windows Live Writer has a huge range [...]
Complete .NET Portability with Wine & Mono?
Published by September 19th, 2007 in Alternatives, Linux, Programming, Software, Windows 3 CommentsMono is the open-source version of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. It implements most of the backend framework features, but unfortunately, falls flat on its pretty little face when attempting to display the user interface - which is what desktop apps are all about.
Wine on the other-hand, is a Linux port of (major parts of) Microsoft’s [...]
Managed Pointers to Managed Objects (or Aliases for Objects) in C# and Visual Basic .NET
Published by July 30th, 2007 in Programming 1 CommentOne of the biggest advantages of managed frameworks/platforms like Microsoft’s .NET Framework (and it’s Linux-counterpart, Mono), and Java is that you, as a developer, have a choice of not mucking around with pointers. To be totally honest, with Java you’re forced not to - in C#, it’s a choice you have to make.
There’s plenty of [...]
Mono Doesn’t Get Enough Credit
Published by June 23rd, 2007 in Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft, Programming 30 CommentsReading through the daily Techmeme headlines, there was a story that would make any Windows’ developers’ hearts stop: “Microsoft Hosts Demo of Silverlight on Linux”
Beat. Beat. Beat. Beeeeep. Beeeeep. Beeeeep. <click>. Beeeeep. <wait>. Beeeeep. <read>. Beat. <relax>. Beat. Beat.
OK, so maybe that’s a bit of an over-exaggeration, but not by much. Microsoft demoing Silverlight on [...]
They invented XML for a reason… So why doesn’t anybody use it? eXtensible Markup Language is the perfect format for storing configuration files and settings for many different reasons. Most obviously, it’s very clear and straight-forward. There are no two-ways about any piece of information or data. You get what you want, when you need [...]
SharpDevelop “invalid EventMemberSpecifier” Error & Solution
Published by June 3rd, 2007 in Guides, Programming 5 CommentsThe Problem
SharpDevelop, for those of you that haven’t heard of it, is a very light-weight open source alternative to Visual Studio 2005. It doesn’t have all the frills and features that Microsoft’s professional IDE does, but in exchange it gives you much less bloat, faster speeds, and quite a few nifty built-in tools like SVN [...]
Please Microsoft, Stop Holding .NET Back!
Published by April 23rd, 2007 in Alternatives, Microsoft, Programming, Software, Windows 49 CommentsAs dedicated developers, end-users, and champions of Microsoft’s .NET Framework, we’re making a final plea to Microsoft and the .NET Framework team to save .NET and make it a real multi-platform framework. Please!
Sun could (and did) do it with Java, so why can’t Microsoft just swallow the pill already and provide real support for the [...]
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