Contents tagged with silverlight
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Can’t Touch This
Touch seems to be the latest craze in software, but astonishingly, it’s nothing new. Most applications out there will work perfectly well in a single touch emulated environment. Basically, a hardware device turns your finger touch into a mouse action. Yet, even though those interfaces and devices have been around for years, it really wasn’t until the iPhone, that people got reacquainted with touch. Here’s the reason why.
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Silverlight UX: Sum Of The Parts
When talking about Silverlight, it is only natural to compare it to standard web based applications (ASP.NET, PHP, JSF, etc.). Silverlight has some clear advantages when dealing with large quantities of data, or speed and performance in say grid operations, but there’s another aspect of Silverlight that may be hard to notice at first. It’s the ‘little’ things. I call them little, because alone, each of these features isn’t something that will shock or amaze you. But combined, these features create a User Experience that is specific to Silverlight. Let’s take a look at a few examples.
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Building A Silverlight 3 Dashboard With Composite UI
If you’ve been following me on Twitter (igtony), you’ve probably heard me grumbling about Visual Studio crashing, services not working, or various other gremlins I’ve been fighting with for the past few days. Well, I’ve finally got something to show for all of my pain!
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NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization
It's official, NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization components are no longer super secret NDA. For those of you who I spoke to recently and told you to tune in for some important announcements around PDC.. here it is.
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NetAdvantage Silverlight Roadmap - it's here!
Believe it or not, I'm more excited than anyone since I no longer have to speak in riddles revolving around what we're doing for Silverlight. The NetAdvantage Silverlight Roadmap is officially public! Here's a quick summary.
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Infragistics Sponsors Silverlight Control Builder Contest '08
There's a really cool contest going on right now, promoting both Silverlight and open source. If you check out Silverlight Control Builder Contest '08 over at gosilverlight.org, you can read up on the details. To state it simply, build the coolest Silverlight control, and win some great stuff including NetAdvantage for .NET (ASP.NET and Windows Forms) + NetAdvantage for WPF. Additionally contest winners are entitled to NetAdvantage for Silverlight once it ships. All in all, there are thousands of dollars in prizes available, all to reward you for building cool stuff and sharing it with others.