Silverlight is Microsoft's cross-browser, cross platform plug-in for media experiences and rich interactive applications.

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What technology to target after Silverlight [closed]

We've made quite a large investment in producing Silverlight 5 LOB apps in my company, to the extent that we can now produce applications at a rapid rate. However, the time has come to consider the ...
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Making a business case for a future proof Silverlight application [closed]

I have recently started working for a pretty big bank writing internal apps. I am being subcontracted out by the company I work for (who I have also recently started working for). This bank has ...
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Modern web application development! Is flash and silverlight still relevant?

When building an application one considers the appropriate technology of choice for best long term impact and scalability. If building a media streaming application for mobile and desktop should one ...
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Monitoring App: Client side or Server Side?

I have a monitoring web application which has a .Net Backend and a Silverlight frontend. The application crunchs big chunks of data, process them and presentates to user. Then user can interact with ...
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What is the recommended way to add a localized resource dll to silverlight

We have a large silverlight application to which we plan to add resource files to localize strings. (.resx) A client is going to be using a tool which allows them to create new project.resource.dll ...
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Best Way to Access Hardware per COM Serial Port over USB Adapter

We are starting a total new Branch at our firm. I am usually developing database interfaces or internal server/client applications/tools for our company, but I never had to do something with hardware. ...
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What capabilities of Adobe Flash are not present in the WinRT API?

As from March 2013, Microsoft allows Adobe Flash content to play by default on its immersive Internet Explorer 10: http://redmondmag.com/articles/2013/03/11/new-ie-10-flash-policy.aspx When asked ...
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Silverlight support from Microsoft [closed]

I heard Silverlight will not be supported any more by Microsoft. It is true? If so, could anyone share with me Microsoft announcement? And if there are already application developed by Silverlight, ...
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Does Silverlight5 provide anything new for WCF

From WCF standpoint, just wondering whether I can leverage anything after upgrade from Silverlight 4 to Silverlight 5? I did some research regarding new features of SL5 and cannot find anything about ...
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Ria service security

I have a silverlight app that connects to a entity framework over WCF ria service. These calls have to be secure. What can I do so only valid users can call the ria service, and to make the call ...
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Secure silverlight WCF calls

I have a Silverlight application that uses Entity Framework. The application are protected with a login made in ASP, so only valid users get the xap file. Have do I secure the WCF calls to the ...
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what's the difference between Routed Events and Attached Events? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the difference between routed events and attached events? I tried to find through various sources but still unable to understand difference between routed events ...
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Silverlight, one database per user

I have a Silverlight application with WCF and entity framework. Is it possible to have one database per user. So when the the user log in, the user will use his own database?
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Dependency Injection/IoC container practices when writing frameworks

I've used various IoC containers (Castle.Windsor, Autofac, MEF, etc) for .Net in a number of projects. I have found they tend to be frequently abused and encourage a number of bad practices. Are ...
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Cross platform or web development with .NET

With iOS and Android soaring on mobile devices that become ever more pervasive, every other year being the 'year of Linux on the desktop' - which is somewhat snarky, but they are getting there -, OSX ...

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