Web applications

Google or Yahoo! Maps are very fashionable and well-known applications used by masses. One can easily drag the maps and view far-flung areas. The transition of the screen is so swift and smooth that it gives you an illusion that the map is locally stored on your desktop and you are easily dragging it with [...]

Continue Reading What is AJAX? Its Potential and Anatomy

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This is probably a common question. Why would anyone want to adopt Silverlight when there are similar highly successful software i.e. Flash with a strong support community? Here, we will NOT draw a comparison of Flash and Silverlight; however we will attempt to draw out some features of Silverlight that are compelling for developers. If [...]

Continue Reading Why Silverlight?

Tags: flash, microsoft, silverlight, web developers, windows presentation foundation

Most of us should be familiar with today’s most anticipated run time application, Silverlight, from Microsoft. Silverlight was developed and released in 2007 with the aim to overcome the inadequacies of HTML to innovate and create more awesome & interactive graphical applications. In this article we will attempt to give you a quick round up [...]

Continue Reading Getting started with Silverlight

Tags: .net, microsoft, silverlight

SilverLight is a web application framework by Microsoft that is used to make videos and games and other interactive media on the web. It is little known out there, but users say it is a viable alternative to Flash. SilverLight has a user friendly GUI that makes it easy to use several programming languages like [...]

Continue Reading What is SilverLight?

Tags: adobe flash, microsoft, silverlight, Web applications