About Software Development

During the last DevDays (13 – 14 june 2007) in Amsterdam, I particular interested in the new Silverlight sibject. During the keynote Scott Guthrie speaks about the new ‘cool’ Silverlight runtime and development possibilities. He presented a simple ‘Hello World’ demo. A more fancy demo was done by Beau Ambur (Metaliq) to impress with the cool things possible when developing Silverlight applications. I was hooked right away. On the next day I participated in an interview with Scott Guthrie. This interview took more than 1.5 hour and it was hard to end because of the interesting stuff comming up endlessly. This talk inspired me even more to start investigating Silverlight. I have to say that only the 1.1 version of the runtime interests mee. This is because it has a light weight version of the .NET framework included. The whole download for this package is only 4mb…. Quite an achievement when taking into account that the first full .NET framework was about 32mb.

Download the Silverlight runtime and start investigating and development. A single issue I ran into is that I have no space for installing the new Visual Studio Orcas beta 1. So I was looking around I there are any possibilties to start Silverlight development with Visual Studio 2005. I have found a this blog post on this subject. The next thing is to start developing my first Silverlight 1.1 alpha application.

 My main focus will be building more attractive, so called, ‘Business Applications’. These applications usually target on straight data entry with numerous business rules for validation of data. Nice challenge to make this kind of applications attractive. May be my customers are not even interested in an attractive business application……. Hmmm, anyway it is good fun to play with Silverlight 2 and 3!!

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