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Monday, April 16, 2007

Microsoft Silverlight code name “WPF/E”

First thing I thought about when I heard about WPF/E was that it's Microsoft's answer to Flash. Nothing wrong with that, but now when I saw the official name I thought the exact same thing! Silverlight, Flash, silverlight, flash.... Hmmmm... Just another name for flash :) I wonder if this was what they meant. At least they didn't end up with Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation for Extreme Internet Graphical User Interface (MWPFEIGUI) or something like that. Guess they saw the blog post over at Secret Geek. Anyway, I'm looking forward to do some real coding on Silverlight and for the record; here are the official Silverlight page.

Update: For more info about Silverlight, check out Mary Jo Foley's blog post.

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Monday, April 16, 2007 2:46:53 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:51:51 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Actually it's even funnier: Microsoft's internal codename for WPF/E - now Silverlight - is actually Sparkle!!! That's a synonym for flash :)

Torbjørn Marø

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 3:35:46 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Actually, Sparkle is the codename for Microsofts Expression Interactive Designer tool.., my bad! Still, that's also part of Microsoft strategy to kill of Flash, and probably what you'll use to create design elements for your Silverlight web apps :|

Torbjørn Marø

Monday, April 23, 2007 10:45:09 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

I liked the MWPFEIGUI, but i should be MWPFEIGUI/E of course :-)

Trond Aarø

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Hi, I'm Jon Arild Tørresdal. I’m an Architect for the Norwegian insurance company Frende Forsikring, chapter Lead of Norwegian .Net User Group (NNUG) in Bergen and .NET editor for InfoQ. I've been coding professionally since 1998 and on .NET since 1999. I'm an early adapter always looking for new ways to put technology to use for the company I work for, at NNUG or just as an excuse to do some coding at home.

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