Contents tagged with WPF
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Silverlight Supercomputer
Dan Fay pointed to an interesting article on CodeProject about building a grid computing framework that runs on Silverlight. The proposition is really interesting. Imagine someone like the folding at home (http://folding.stanford.edu/) project providing and embeddable Silverlight widget that people can place on their sites to help speed genetic research... or how about a little widget on your page that takes some of the load off of your server to help offset high traffic volumes? Just imagine how many teraflops a site like MySpace could output on a given day. Google could potentially use something like this to index the web or calculate page ranks via MapReduce and eliminate a large chunk of their server farm.
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How Silverlight Will Change the Way We Build Applications
"...Don't make the mistake of tossing Silverlight in the same bucket as Flash. While they definitely compete in some significant areas, and both have real strengths in different areas, Silverlight 2.0 was created from the ground-up to be an application development platform equally friendly to designers and developers. If you're a .NET developer (or want to be), you'll find the .NET framework included with Silverlight to be extremely capable and powerful..." [1]
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WPF is Ugly by Default?
Erik Sink thinks WPF is ugly by default:
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Is Adobe Really Playing the Lock-in Game With Flash Video?
So, you aren't going to be locked in to buy On2's codec... but looks like despite the fact that they are using an open standard, if you want to intelligently stream the video you will be locked into buying Flash Media Server:
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Silverlight Forcing Macromedia to Rethink
Many Flash developers have been complaining about the choice of On2's codec over a standard like H.264 for years. Interestingly, Adobe is finally adding support for some standard video codecs in the next version of Flash. The question is, how much did Silverlight have to do with this decision? The timing sure makes it seem like a reactive decision. In any case, it's good news for video on the web.
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Flash: Now Slowing Down Your Multi-Core PC
"As I mentioned in Flash Player Update 3 we finally realized that multi-core CPUs are here to stay. So why not follow the times and take advantage of it? As most of you hard core Flash developers know, rendering is a huge bottleneck. I've seen a couple of blog post complaining that their second core/CPU is not doing anything when they run the Flash Player. Well people, this is about to change in this update." [1]
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Expression Blend: First Impressions
So now that Expression Blend is up on MSDN, I figured it was ready to take for a spin. First impression, it's very cool. For creating user interfaces, it easily beats the Flash IDE... with one exception, no code editor. Give me a break. Who's the retard that made that decision? Maybe there is some way to get a better experience, but when you want to add 2 lines of code to an event handler in the default install is beyond horrible, it just shells to my .cs file editor. Come on... you seriously couldn't provide a even a basic code editor in the IDE itself?
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Java FX: Sun Wants a Piece
"The demand continues to grow for secure, interactive content, applications, and services that run on a variety of clients. To simplify and speed the creation and deployment of high-impact content for a wide range of devices, Sun is introducing JavaFX, a new family of products based on Java technology designed to enable consistent user experiences, from desktop to mobile device to set-top box to Blu-ray Disc."
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WPF/E = Silverlight
One of the reasons WPF/E is going to give Flash a real run for it's money is the video story. Unlike Flash, Silverlight (the new name) will support DRM, it supports the industry standard VC-1 codec used in HD-DVD and Blueray, and it can take advantage of the built-in media streaming capabilities of IIS. The video story is better just about any way you look at it with Silverlight as far as content providers are concerned. It's cheaper, it's faster, etc.
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JD Confused
JD is confused about the statement made in a MS presentation with don and chris: