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BingMaps.com has just added two new Silverlight applications Local Events and Destination Maps.
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In its attempts to implement Silverlight RIA technology into vatiety of platforms, Microsoft teamed up with world’s largest semiconductor chip maker Intel to announce Silverlight to be run on Intel Atom-Based systems preferentially on Moblin OS (open-source operating system and application stack for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, and nettops).
According to Intel’s officials Moblin will support Silverlight 3. During a keynote address at the event, Renee James, Intel’s corporate vice president and general manager of the company’s Software and Services Group, and Ian Ellison-Taylor, Microsoft’s general manager for Client Platforms and Tools, announced the news of negotiations over Moblin’s enhancement with SIlverlight being set with Microsoft. The  demonstrated. Also the speech gradually turned into presentation of IIS Smooth Streaming on Atom-based devices running both Windows 7 and Moblin.
In addition Silverlight was stated to be one of the technologies supported in Intel’s recently announced Atom Developer Program.

Microsoft releases its 5^th version of MS Silverlight Toolkit developed specially for Silverlight 3. All Toolkits’ controls were updated to be compatible with Visual Studio 2010. There also was some changes in charting. Now with 5^th Silverlight Toolkit all classes of charting are available; Palette’s type was changed from “IEnumerable Style” to “IEnumerableResourceDictionary”. The new feature LegendItemStyle was introduced to make customization of LegendItem more convenient.  The Drag and Drop feature was updated to support common items controls such as LightBox, TreeView, DataGrid,etc.  Alongside other Silverlight Toolkit binaries, Microsoft implemented the new  System.Reactive assembly.
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The main aim of this article is to discuss some of technical differences between Flash and Silverlight without any intend to show which among both products is better or worth. This is article does not promote any product and written in rather analytical mean.

Microsoft’s release of Silverlight cross-browser cross-platform plug in, set up a new wave of rumors on the topic of “who’s gonna to rule the Web?” – World’s community of web-designers and developers started to share their points of view towards choosing between Flash and Silverlight. Being a new product, Silverlight finds it hard to get its place on the international market, as it been thoroughly covered by grandpa Adobe Flash. But at the same time Silvelight contains features, everyone have always wanted to see in Flash. The simplest example is search engine optimization. Another interesting fact is that Flash can be developed on either OS X or Windows, while Silverlight requires you to be using Windows to develop any silverlight applications, and not just Windows, but the Visual Studio development kit for Windows which is not in the typical arsenal for web development. (more…)

Rumours about Nokia’s plans to make MS Silverlight available for S60 platform that runs on Symbian OS, were finally approved by Nokia’s officials. What’s more, The world’s biggest cell-phone producer is targeting on its Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets to make them compatible with MS Silverlight.

Knowing the fact that S60 is commonly used on more smartphone’s, than any other, the Microsoft company is on its way to ‘bit a big chunk’ with their new product with a shiny name – Silverlight. As you might know, Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering media experiences and interactive applications. Adding supports is one of the most important features of Silverlight, because it extends opportunities for developers to create multi-platform applications.

On March 5, 2008 the day of Microsoft’s sold out MIX08 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft demonstrated Silverlight on S60 during the opening keynote. Silverlight was intended to be available for S60 developers later that year with initial service delivery anticipated shortly thereafter for all S60 licensees. Since then there were no fresh rumors over the Giant’s latest collaboration, but we hope to get brilliant results from what was planned to do.

On July 9, 2009 Microsoft released its latest version of their new cross browser plug-in called Silverlight 3.0 that has been already rumored to be Flash’s strongest competitor. At its core, Silverlight is a cross platform, cross browser .NET plug-in that renders XAML (an XML-based language that may be used to define graphical assets, user interfaces, behaviors, animations, and more) and enables designers and developers to build rich media experiences and RIAs for browsers. Silverlight supports the display of high-definition video files, and importantly, Microsoft took a pledge of sending them over the Net (for as you know streaming HD video could be sometimes really expensive) by thus opening new opportunities for smaller developers. Indeed, Microsoft promised reliable 700kbps throughput for media files, and free distribution of all content on its network for one year.

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