If you develop applications in Silverlight a lot, it becomes more and more annoying that Flex doesn’t support multi threading. This is particularly annoying when you are processing a long running task and need to display some progress. The problem is that you can’t do this task on a background thread, this means that the ui thread is busy processing your task and it can’t update the ui until your task is done, at which the progress of course is 100%. In this article I’m going to show how you can somewhat work around Flex’ and more precisely Flash’ lack
312 readersI'm here at PDC 09, where I'm very excited about all the possibilities in Silverlight 4. When we jumped into 1.1/1.0/WPFE several years ago, we never thought silverlight would evolve so quickly, but here we are. One of the most exciting features, which allot of users have been asking for since the bad old Silverlight
356 readersI'm here at PDC 09, where I'm very excited about all the possibilities in Silverlight 4. When we jumped into 1.1/1.0/WPFE several years ago, we never thought silverlight would evolve so quickly, but here we are. One of the most exciting features, which allot of users have been asking for since the bad old Silverlight
480 readersI'm here at PDC 09, where I'm very excited about all the possibilities in Silverlight 4. When we jumped into 1.1/1.0/WPFE several years ago, we never thought silverlight would evolve so quickly, but here we are. One of the most exciting features, which allot of users have been asking for since the bad old Silverlight
307 readersI'm here at PDC 09, where I'm very excited about all the possibilities in Silverlight 4. When we jumped into 1.1/1.0/WPFE several years ago, we never thought silverlight would evolve so quickly, but here we are. One of the most exciting features, which allot of users have been asking for since the bad old Silverlight
467 readersIt's been crazy busy here at Cynergy so I haven't written much in a while. But after a few months of Microsoft Surface work and a side detour into Flash territory, I finally had some free time to jump back into Silverlight 3 and I’m loving the new WriteableBitmap object. My plan is to create
480 readersIt's been crazy busy here at Cynergy so I haven't written much in a while. But after a few months of Microsoft Surface work and a side detour into Flash territory, I finally had some free time to jump back into Silverlight 3 and I’m loving the new WriteableBitmap object. My plan is to create
671 readersIt's been crazy busy here at Cynergy so I haven't written much in a while. But after a few months of Microsoft Surface work and a side detour into Flash territory, I finally had some free time to jump back into Silverlight 3 and I’m loving the new WriteableBitmap object. My plan is to create
474 readersIt's been crazy busy here at Cynergy so I haven't written much in a while. But after a few months of Microsoft Surface work and a side detour into Flash territory, I finally had some free time to jump back into Silverlight 3 and I’m loving the new WriteableBitmap object. My plan is to create
417 readersI came accross this article that gave 10 reasons why Flash is better than Silverlight. I agree with some of the comments there that the article is biased and Microsft has got several good things built into Silverlight. However I think it is too early for someone to drop Flash and consider developing Silverlight applications-
187 readersIPad does not show the blue Lego icon that they formerly used to indicate that Flash is not supported on a given device. This may mean that Apple doesn’t see iPad’s lack of support for Flash as a shortcoming of the device, but instead as deficiency in the site you’re choosing to view on iPad,
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