In the past week I've gotten a couple of emails about companies that are releasing components for the .NET Framework/Windows Presentation Foundation. Infragistics, the big component vendor, was the ...

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Microsoft has released version 5 of its Silverlight browser plugin and runtime environment. Among other new features, the 7-12MB download gives Silverlight developers a 3D API based on Direct3D, ...

Microsoft released Silverlight 2, a new version of its solution for creation and delivery of Rich Internet Applications (RIA's) through a Web browser. Silverlight 2 -- presented under the motto of ...

I have a SQL 2008 database with some sprocs, etc... that take data in tables and export it to XML files. These XML files are used to provide sample data to test an application we use that imports XML ...

Microsoft is announcing two products today which are going to make them an even bigger force in the Rich Internet Application market space. If you think about some of the things that define the world ...

Cross-platform development frameworks make programmers' lives easier. Programming one set of source code files which an interpreter then converts to run on different operating system saves developers ...

Microsoft Silverlight is a component of many web browsers that lets them play music and videos. Silverlight used to be incredibly popular, but was eventually made obsolete by HTML5. Almost no major ...

Have images in your Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application suddenly gone black? The problem was likely caused by a recent update glitch, and Microsoft has published a workaround. The Visual ...