OpenSilver, an open source alternative to the long-gone Microsoft Silverlight, continues to add new language support to its XAML-based web application framework. After adding support for VB.NET (in ...

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The development platform and tools strategy at Microsoft is getting increasingly complex, especially around XAML/Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. Here's the latest. Microsoft on ...

Microsoft’s much-touted and much-anticipated RIA (rich Internet application) entry, Silverlight, lets Web developers and designers create “rich, engaging user experiences with 2-D graphics, animation, ...

Yesterday, Microsoft revealed the latest alpha release of Silverlight, a development framework for interactive web application construction that leverages .NET development technologies. Silverlight ...

For reasons that are not immediately clear to me, it seems that a lot of developers who attended Microsoft’s recent PDC event were surprised to hear that the company now sees HTML5 as the way forward ...

Crafting a Web strategy is important for any thriving business. However, implementing that strategy with rich Internet applications is not always as easy as it should be. To ease that pain, Microsoft ...