NBC Direct: A new Companion App
I have been convinced for a while now that the industry is headed toward more of a companion application model... that is a model that offers the best of the web world in the browser and everywhere and the best of the client world out of browser. One common example of this model is Outlook Web Access everywhere and Outlook for the desktop . While this patterns has been around for a while... it has been very difficult to implement. Today, if you can afford to double implement this is in reach, but as we move forward with .NET and Xaml everywhere with Silverlight and full WPF you can reuse lots more of your application design (in Xaml) and business logic (in .NET) across the web and the desktop. As I am sure you are aware, NBC , like all the major
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