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realsoftwaredevelopment.com — Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division at Microsoft made the official announcement that Silverlight 2 was available. Surprises also included Eclipse support and the Silverlight XAML vocabulary being published.This is a significant event as it not only marks a huge milestone for the Microsoft Silverlight Team, but it also marks the date that Flash finally got a true competitor after years of complete domination. While Silverlight 1.0 was released last year, it was mainly a video only version, with some JavaScript/AJAX support that lacked the true power of .net. With the release of Silverlight 2, Microsoft has introduced a cross-platform, cross-browser version of the .NET Framework. read more...
realsoftwaredevelopment.com — Is Silverlight a Flash killer? No. Is it intended to be? Nope. It's much more than that. Will you still see flash animations on sites? Absolutely. But, will you see real applications on the web, built in "AJAX"/Flash? Nope, they will be built using Silverlight. Dare I say, you might someday see Flash running on top of Silverlight! Why not? read more...
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