Windows veteran jumps to second Silverlight
section: microsoft, for your questions: KezNews forum, 5.6.2008
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversVeteran Microsoft ISV partner Infragistics is taking an early lead on Silverlight 2, Microsoft’s emerging cross-browser media plug-in.
The company expects to release an experimental set of components based on Silverlight 2 beta 2 for building the interfaces on rich internet applications at the same time Microsoft launches the second Silverlight 2 beta - expected Friday. The beta was promised by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates at TechEd Tuesday.
Microsoft has been pushing Silverlight pretty hard, as it tries to break into the market of media content creation.
Eighteen-year-old Infragistics, meanwhile, has a history of being an early adopter around Windows. The company, which specializes in re-usable software components for building application presentation layers, was quick to pick up .NET - Microsoft's big platform shift in the early 2000s.
Explaining the enthusiasm for something so new even the latest pre-release code hasn't even shipped, Windows group lead technical evangelist Anthony Lombardo told The Register Silverlight would let developers break through barriers posed by AJAX and JavaScript.
He expects it'll do this with the ability to easily combine data with media, like video and music. It'll also let Windows programmers, not just Flash developers, build really rich interfaces using existing language skills and tools.
The planned NetAdvantge for Silverlight Components CTP, due this Friday, will consist of a gauge component and control component for pulling live data feeds into graphics and charts without the need for line-by-line programming.
Missing, though, will be a grid component. Grids organize data into rows and columns in an application. A grid component could allow data to be entered into a table or viewed using graphics, and are something Infragistics has experience with in its other Windows components for .NET and COM.
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"it'll also let windows programmers, not just flash developers, build really rich
interfaces using existing language skills and tools."
heh, i guess the idea of
cross-platform was just a joke then? windows custom objects for sure available by the
sounds of it.
just what we do not need, even more m$ lock in attempts.
competition is the chief catalyst for innovation. whether its open or not, silverlight
has some great headway as a development platform for interfaces. most geeks and nerds out
there are loosers because they can't seem to grasp the concept of competition (and stuff
being better than they are) it's all fun and games when your killin noobs in
counterstrike or halo but loose one match and your day is shot...not to mention most of
your self esteem.
adobe is a much bigger monopolizer in this territory. it's
good that anyone else can throw a mix into the arena.
adobe does not own a operating system to screw up the competition with so unsure of the
previous comment. there is other competition existing not tied to a os called gnash.
the only thing that ms throws in is a spanner into the works and they do it often
without fail to cripple innovation and competition.
i don't know how to spell loser because i am one
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By Michael on 06.06.2008 - 07:06